Tennessee Valley Authority Timeline of Events

Home / Timelines / Tennessee Valley Authority

Tennessee Valley Authority

The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression...

Timeline of Events

1933

5.18.1933

New Deal: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act creating the Tennessee Valley Authority.

1934

11.6.1934

Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.

1981

2.11.1981

convert 100000 of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating 8 workers.