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EVENT |
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| January 1 |
Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto |
| January 1 |
President Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Ataturk: Father of Turkey" |
| January 2 |
Bruno R Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap-murder of Lindbergh baby |
| January 4 |
Bob Hope first heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue" |
| January 7 |
Zoe Akins' "Old Maid" premieres in New York City |
| January 8 |
Spectrophotometer patented by A. C. Hardy |
| January 8 |
Jesse Garon Presley, identical twin of Elvis Presley, born and died |
| January 10 |
Actress Mary Pickford marries actor Douglas Fairbanks |
| January 11 |
Amelia Earhart flies non-stop from Honolulu to Oakland, California |
| January 13 |
Plebiscite in Saar indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany |
| January 14 |
Oil pipeline Iraq-Mediterranean goes into use |
| January 15 |
Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty" premieres in New York City |
| January 16 |
Ma Barker shot dead in an FBI raid on her rented cottage in Florida |
| January 19 |
KLM begins flight path between Curaeao and Aruba |
| January 21 |
Wilderness Society forms |
| January 24 |
First canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale," is sold by Kruger Brewing Co |
| January 28 |
Iceland becomes first country to legalize abortion |
| January 30 |
Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos" |
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| February 1 |
James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy |
| February 2 |
Lie detector first used in court in Portage, Wisconsin |
| February 6 |
First election to allow women to vote in Turkey |
| February 6 |
Monopoly board game, invented by Charles Darrow, goes on sale for first time |
| February 10 |
Pennsylvania Rail Road begins passenger service on new electric locomotive |
| February 11 |
First U.S. airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, New York |
| February 12 |
Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean |
| February 13 |
First U.S. surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris in Cleveland |
| February 19 |
Clifford Odets' "Awake and Sing," premieres in New York City |
| February 20 |
Karoline Mikkelson is first woman on Antarctica |
| February 22 |
Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House |
| February 26 |
Germany begins Luftwaffe operation under Reichsmarshall H Goering |
| February 26 |
RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt |
| February 28 |
Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit |
| February 28 |
Nylon discovered by Dr. Wallace H. Carothers |
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| March 3 |
Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP) is formed |
| March 5 |
First premature baby health law in U.S. (Chicago) |
| March 6 |
Frank Bartell (Czech), cycles record 80.584 mph in Los Angeles |
| March 6 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. died of pneumonia in Washington, D. C. |
| March 7 |
Saar incorporated into Germany |
| March 11 |
Bank of Canada opens |
| March 11 |
Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe |
| March 12 |
England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns and villages |
| March 13 |
Driving tests introduced in Great Britain |
| March 14 |
36-Folsom becomes first line to use 1-man streetcars |
| March 16 |
Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty |
| March 17 |
KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR |
| March 20 |
"Your Hit Parade" made its debut on radio |
| March 21 |
Jean Anouilh's "Y avait un presonnier," premieres in Paris |
| March 21 |
Persia officially renamed Iran |
| March 22 |
Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (New York) |
| March 24 |
Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network |
| March 25 |
First Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns |
| March 26 |
"RvJ" Mitchell and Mjr Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire |
| March 28 |
Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket |
| March 29 |
French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage |
| March 30 |
Newfoundland changes time to 3 hours W of Greenwich, repeats 44 sec |
| March 31 |
Fusahige Suzuki runs world record marathon (2:27:49) |
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| April 1 |
First radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, New York |
| April 2 |
Mary Hirsch becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer |
| April 2 |
Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR |
| April 3 |
Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44) |
| April 5 |
Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election |
| April 8 |
Bartoks 5th String quartet premieres in Washington D.C. |
| April 8 |
Works Progress Administration, WPA, approved by Congress |
| April 9 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Maroons sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 3 games |
| April 10 |
Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London |
| April 12 |
Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers |
| April 12 |
Royal Proclamation sets design of Canada's new Jubilee Silver Dollar |
| April 12 |
"Your Hit Parade," debuts on radio and quickly becomes number one |
| April 14 |
Sandstorm ravages U.S. midwest (Dust Bowl) |
| April 16 |
First radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee and Molly" |
| April 21 |
King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties |
| April 27 |
Brussel's World Expo opens |
| April 28 |
Moscow underground opens (81 km long) |
| April 30 |
World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul |
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| May 1 |
Boulder Dam completed |
| May 1 |
Canada's first silver dollar is circulated |
| May 5 |
Jessie Owens of U.S., sets then long jump record at 26' 8" |
| May 6 |
British King George and Queen Mary celebrates silver jubilee |
| May 14 |
Plebiscite in Philippines ratifies independence agreement |
| May 19 |
Lawrence of Arabia died in Dorset, England of injuries from a motor-cycle accident |
| May 24 |
First major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Phil 1) |
| May 24 |
Swedish princess Ingrid marries Danish crown prince Frederik (IX) |
| May 25 |
Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs. Pirates |
| May 25 |
Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour |
| May 27 |
Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional |
| May 31 |
Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan |
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| June 1 |
Driving test and license plates introduced in England |
| June 2 |
Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player |
| June 3 |
French Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours |
| June 8 |
Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds and leaves the game |
| June 10 |
Dr. Robert Smith and William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous |
| June 12 |
Senator Huey Long spoke continually for 15 hours |
| June 12 |
Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco, Bolivia vs Paraguay |
| June 13 |
James J Braddock beats Max Baer in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| June 14 |
Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ends |
| June 16 |
U.S. Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal" |
| June 23 |
Anthony Eden offers Mussolini, Somalian harbor |
| June 25 |
Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium |
| June 26 |
SDAP and CPH achieve majority in city council in Amsterdam |
| June 26 |
Work service for recent graduate obligatory in Germany |
| June 28 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt orders a federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox Kentucky |
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| July 1 |
General Netherlands Persbureau (ANP) forms in Amsterdam |
| July 2 |
Great Britain boxers beat U.S. team in first International Golden Gloves |
| July 5 |
First "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcast |
| July 5 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt signs National Labor Relations Act |
| July 6 |
48th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats H Jacobs (63 36 75) |
| July 6 |
Rotterdam architect A van de Steurs Museum Boymans opens |
| July 12 |
Belgium recognizes Soviet Union |
| July 13 |
Richard Strauss resigns as chairman of Reichskulturkammer |
| July 13 |
U.S. - Russian commerce treaty takes effect |
| July 14 |
Funeral cortege of Alfred Dreyfus passed through ranks of troops assembled for Bastille Day |
| July 16 |
First automatic parking meter in U.S. installed, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
| July 17 |
Variety's famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix" |
| July 18 |
Amsterdam city council accept city growth plan through the year 2000 |
| July 20 |
First broadcast of "Gang Busters" on NBC-radio |
| July 22 |
Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia |
| July 23 |
Airplane crashes into the Empire State Building |
| July 24 |
First greeting telegram sent in Britain |
| July 27 |
Floods at Yangtzee Jiang and Hoangh, kills 200,000 |
| July 28 |
Belgium's Romain Maes, wins Tour de France |
| July 30 |
First Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution |
| July 31 |
Third Dutch government of Colijn sworn in |
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| August 7 |
60% of voters agrees to nazism in Danzig (Gdansk) |
| August 11 |
Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews |
| August 13 |
Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum) |
| August 14 |
Social Security Act becomes law |
| August 15 |
Will Rogers, American humorist, died in plane accident trying to fly around the world |
| August 20 |
Milt coup by General Pons and president Ibarra in Ecuador |
| August 26 |
CCC camp opens in Brecksville Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks |
| August 29 |
Astrid, Princess of Sweden, Queen of the Belgiums, killed in a car accident |
| August 31 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act prohibiting export of U.S. arms to belligerents |
| August 31 |
Russian Aleksei Stachanov digs 6 hours, 105 tons of cabbages |
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| September 2 |
A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423 |
| September 3 |
First automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph) |
| September 10 |
Huey Long, U. S. Senator and former governor of Louisiana, assassinated by Carl Weiss |
| September 12 |
Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 352.46 mph |
| September 15 |
Nuremberg Laws makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany |
| September 17 |
Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina chosen first president of Philippines |
| September 25 |
Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset," premieres in New York City |
| September 27 |
Chicago Cubs win 21st consecutive game and clinch NL pennant |
| September 30 |
Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" premieres in Boston |
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| October 2 |
Mussolini's Italian army attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
| October 2 |
NY Hayden Planetarium, 4th in U.S., opens |
| October 3 |
Italy invades Ethiopia |
| October 6 |
Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches |
| October 7 |
Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series |
| October 8 |
Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie and Harriet) |
| October 10 |
Coup under Gen Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy |
| October 10 |
League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia |
| October 12 |
Cole Porters musical "Jubilee," premieres in New York City |
| October 15 |
NHL's St. Louis Eagles fold |
| October 17 |
Pacific Assoc of AAU votes not to participate in Berlin Olympics |
| October 20 |
400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid |
| October 20 |
Anti-fascist People front forms in Brussels |
| October 20 |
Mao Tse Tung and his Communist forces ended their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi China |
| October 21 |
Hank Greenberg selected AL MVP unanimously |
| October 24 |
Dutch Schultz shot by hitmen for rival gangsters in his hideout, the Palace Chophouse |
| October 25 |
Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie and Jacmel Haiti |
| October 27 |
SDAP and NVV launchs "Plan for Work" in Utrect Netherlands |
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| November 1 |
T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral," premieres in London |
| November 3 |
George II returns to Greece and regains monarchy |
| November 3 |
Kitei Son runs world record marathon (2:26:42) |
| November 5 |
Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of M to admit (black) Donald Murray |
| November 6 |
First test flight of British Hurricane aircraft |
| November 6 |
English prince Henry (under George V) weds Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott |
| November 6 |
Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane |
| November 6 |
Billy Sunday, baseball player turned evangelist, died wealthy during the Depression |
| November 7 |
Winnipeg 'Pegs (soon to be Blue Bombers) defeats Hamilton Tigers 18-12 to win CFL Grey Cup |
| November 9 |
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms |
| November 9 |
Japan invades Shanghai China |
| November 11 |
Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over SD |
| November 13 |
Anti-British riots in Egypt |
| November 14 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims Philippine Islands a free commonwealth |
| November 14 |
Nazis deprive German Jews of their citizenship |
| November 15 |
Commonwealth of Philippines inaugurated |
| November 16 |
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Jumbo," premieres in New York City |
| November 21 |
First commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper) |
| November 21 |
Jean Giraudoux' "La Guerre de Troie n'Aura," premieres in Paris |
| November 24 |
King George II returns to Greece after 12 years |
| November 25 |
International Institute of Social History (IISH) founded in Amsterdam |
| November 29 |
Michael Savage becomes first Labour premier of New Zealand |
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| December 1 |
Austria has world's first Day of Postage Stamp |
| December 4 |
1,200 at St. Joseph's College (Phila) enroll in anticommunism class |
| December 5 |
First commercial hydroponics operation established in Montebello California |
| December 5 |
National Council of Negro Women formed by Mary McLeod Bethune in New York City |
| December 10 |
A's sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for $150,000 |
| December 10 |
White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000 |
| December 15 |
Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Aljechin |
| December 18 |
Edward Benes becomes president of Czechoslovakia |
| December 20 |
Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii |
| December 22 |
Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, first awakening in Kamakura |
| December 26 |
Stalin views Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady Macbeth" |
| December 28 |
W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in New York City |
| December 30 |
Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia |
| December 31 |
Communist Party of Holland (CPH) becomes Dutch Communist Party |
