Misc: "contact", starring jodie foster, was written by?

Questions

In 1906 Architect Stanford ---------- shot dead atop Madison Square Garden, which he designed, by Harry Thaw, the jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit. During Thaw's trial, he tried to plead 'brainstorming' (temporary insanity). ?

In 1919 First flight Junkers ---------- advanced monoplane airliner. ?

In 1929 Pres. ---------- authorizes the building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam). ?

In 1941 ---------- declares war on the U.S.S.R. ?

In 1942 British RAF staged a ---------- -bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II). ?