th Today in868,the Diamond Sutra, the world's oldest surviving, dated, printed, book in Chinese and made into a scrollwas printed. Today in 1934,a huge dust storm was spotted moving from the Midwest, about 1,500-miles long, 900-miles across and two-miles high, coating almost one-third of the country. Many farmers lost large amounts of topsoil during the few years the phenomenon was known,The Dust Bowl years of the 1930s. The mixture of large areas of landing forming into dust bowls, causing food production to go bad and the depression caused by the crash of ’29 all contributed to “The Great Depression.”