Kings Canyon National Park. Forecast. 0%81Â°52Â°Night - Clear. Winds E. The overnight low will be 54 Â°F (12.2 Â°C).Sunny with a high of 82 Â°F (27.8 Â°C). Winds variable at 2 to 7 mph (3.2 to 11.3 kph). 0%79Â°49Â°Sunny today with a high of 79 Â°F (26.1 Â°C) and a low of 49 Â°F (9.4 Â°C). 0%79Â°50Â°Sunny today with a high of 79 Â°F (26.1 Â°C) and a low of 50 Â°F (10.0 Â°C).
Pedestrians and traffic leaving downtown Manhattan crossing the Queensboro Bridge after the onset of the largest power blackout in American history, August 14, 2003.
Author: William L. Silber. After a month-long run on American banks, Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed a Bank Holiday, beginning March 6, 1933, that shut down the banking system. When the banks reopened on March 13, depositors stood in line to return their hoarded cash. This article attributes the success of the Bank Holiday and the remarkable turnaround in the publicâs confidence to the Emergency Banking Act, passed by Congress on March 9, 1933.