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Bradman's 1st Test Century
Jan 3 Australian cricket icon Don Bradman follows up a 1st innings of 79 to score 112 in 3rd Test v England in Melbourne; his 1st of 29 Test centuries
Mother Teresa Arrives in India
Jan 6 Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin her work amongst India's poorest
- Jan 7 "Buck Rogers" sci-fi comic strip's 1st appearance in a newspaper
Fascist Organization Ustaša
Jan 7 Croatian nationalist and fascist movement, Ustaša founded by Ante Pavelić in exile in Italy
- Jan 7 French inventor Robert Bureau launches the 1st radiosonde - a battery-powered telemetry instrument carried into the atmosphere to measure various parameters and transmit them by radio to a ground receiver
- Jan 8 "Man with a Movie Camera", Soviet experimental documentary film directed by Dziga Vertov, is released
- Jan 8 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies
- Jan 8 CBS radio network buys WABC in NYC
- Jan 9 Buddy DeSylva & Lew Brown's musical "Follow Thru" premieres in NYC
- Jan 9 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions
Street Scene
Jan 10 Elmer Rice's play "Street Scene" premieres in NYC
- Jan 12 Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana
- Jan 13 Humanist Society established in Hollywood, California
- Jan 14 Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign
- Jan 17 Popeye makes 1st appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theater"
- Jan 18 "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio
- Jan 19 Acadia National Park, Maine established
World 500m Skating Record
Jan 19 Finnish speed skater Clas Thunberg sets new world 500m record in 42.8 seconds in Davos, Switzerland
Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts
Jan 26 Rube Goldberg's "The Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, A.K.," cartoon series first published in "Colliers Weekly"
- Jan 29 Seeing Eye Guide Dog organization forms in USA
"Nothing New in the West"
Jan 31 Erich Maria Remarque publishes his anti-war novel "Im Westen nichts Neues" (Nothing New in the West) in Berlin
Trotsky Expelled
Jan 31 Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey
- Feb 1 "The Broadway Melody" directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Bessie Love is released. 1st film with sound to win an Oscar (Outstanding Picture 1930)
- Feb 1 1st clean & jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402½ lbs
- Feb 1 Pi Alphha Phi, the first Asian-American interest fraternity in the United States, is founded at UC Berkeley
- Feb 3 Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam
- Feb 4 Archie Jackson scores 164 in Test Cricket debut v England at Adelaide
- Feb 5 Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in San Francisco
Deep Night
Feb 6 Rudy Vallee records single "Deep Night"
Dynamo
Feb 11 Eugene O'Neill's play "Dynamo" premieres in NYC
Al Capone, Public Enemy Number One
Feb 14 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, seven gangsters are killed, allegedly on Al Capone's orders
Murder of Interest
Feb 16 In mysterious murder suicide Ned Doheny Jr., son of oil magnate Edward L. Doheny, dies along with secretary Hugh Plunkett at Greystone Mansion, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
- Feb 16 KID-AM in Idaho Falls ID begins radio transmissions
- Feb 19 Medical diathermy machine 1st used in Schenectady, NY
- Feb 20 Boston Red Sox announce they will play Sunday MLB games at Braves Field; Fenway Park located too close to a church
- Feb 20 Congress passes the Ratification Act of 1929, recognizes American Samoa as an unincorporated territory of the United States
Grand Teton National Park
Feb 26 US President Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park
Hainsworth's Shutout Record
Mar 2 George Hainsworth becomes first NHL goaltender to record 20 shutouts in one season when the Montreal Canadiens beat the visiting Boston Bruins, 3-0; ends season with 22
- Mar 2 US Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals
Herbert Hoover
Mar 4 Herbert Hoover inaugurated as the 31st US President
- Mar 4 National Revolutionary Party founded in Mexico by Plutarco Elías Calles (will go on to hold power until 2000)
Curtis 1st Native American VP
Mar 4 Republican Charles Curtis becomes the 1st Native American to be Vice President of the United States
- Mar 6 Turkey & Bulgaria sign friendship treaty
- Mar 8 US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia
- Mar 9 Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius" premieres in Paris
- Mar 13 20-year-old Australian cricket super-batsman Don Bradman scores 123 in 5th Test vs England at MCG; his second Test century
- Mar 16 WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions
- Mar 17 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
- Mar 17 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
The New Babylon
Mar 18 Russian premiere of silent film "The New Babylon" premieres in Leningrad, written and directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg with a score by Dmitri Shostakovich
- Mar 22 KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions
- Mar 22 US Coast Guard vessel sinks Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor
- Mar 28 Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador
- Mar 29 Stanley Cup Final, Madison Square Garden: Boston Bruins beat New York Rangers, 2-1 for a 2-0 series sweep; Boston's first Championship
- Mar 29 US President Herbert Hoover has 1st telephone installed on the desk at the Oval Office's in the White House
- Apr 1 Austrian government of Ignaz Seipel falls
- Apr 1 Doorne's trailer factory in Eindhoven Netherlands opens
- Apr 1 Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo
- Apr 1 Luis Buñuel releases "Un Chien Andalou" 24-minute film
- Apr 1 Morehouse College, Spellman College & Atlanta University affiliate
- Apr 3 Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact
- Apr 3 RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
- Apr 4 1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held
- Apr 4 Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II's operetta "The New Moon" opens at the Drury Lane Theatre in London's West End
- Apr 5 Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact
Delhi Assembly Courts Arrest
Apr 8 Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest
- Apr 11 KLO-AM in Ogden UT begins radio transmissions
- Apr 11 Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam
- Apr 16 Cleveland rookie center fielder Earl Averill, becomes first American League player to hit a HR on 1st at bat; Indians beat Detroit Tigers, 5-4 at League Park
- Apr 16 New York Yankees become first MLB team to permanently feature numbers on backs of uniforms; numbers correspond to position in batting order
- Apr 18 Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire
- Apr 24 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
- Apr 24 Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark
- Apr 26 1st non-stop England to India flight lands
- Apr 30 Ernst Streeruwitz becomes Chancellor of Austria, lasts less than 5 months
- May 1 Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen, Netherlands
- May 1 Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin
Music History
May 2 Billie Holiday (14) and her mother are arrested for prostitution following a raid of a brothel in Harlem, New York City
- May 3 Prussia bans anti-fascists
Gehrig's Three Home Runs
May 4 Lou Gehrig hits three consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9
Hubbell No-Hits Pirates
May 8 NY Giants pitcher Carl Hubbell no-hits Pittsburgh Pirates, 11-0 at the Polo Grounds, NYC
Volgograd Tractor Plant
May 8 Soviet government contract Albert Kahn Associates architectural firm to design the USSR's 1st tractor plant
- May 9 WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions
- May 11 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
- May 11 Dr Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin, Texas
- May 12 Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary)
- May 15 Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio)
1st Academy Awards
May 16 1st Academy Awards: "Wings", Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor win
- May 18 MLB record 50 runs for a doubleheader: Brooklyn Robins beat Philadelphia Phillies, 20-16 in first game, Phillies win 8-6 in nightcap, at the Baker Bowl in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Feng Yuxiang Declares War
May 19 Chinese warlord Feng Yuxiang declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek's nationalist government
- May 19 Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium, crushes 2 people to death
- May 21 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed in NYC
- May 21 Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son" premieres in Paris
- May 24 Chicago WS pitcher Ted Lyons and Detroit's George Uhle go 21 innings before Tigers get a run to win, 6-5; longest game (3 hours, 31 mins) ever at Comiskey Park, Chicago
- May 28 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (NYC)
- May 31 Atlantic City Convention Center opens
- Jun 3 1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center (electric light)
- Jun 3 Chile and Peru sign the Treaty of Lima, finally resolving their border dispute from the War of the Pacific (1879–83). Chile keeps Arica and Peru regains Tacna.
- Jun 5 Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour government in Britain
- Jun 7 Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st British female cabinet minister (Labour)
- Jun 7 Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
- Jun 8 Venezuelan rebel Rafael Urbina overthrows Fort Amsterdam, Curacao kidnap governor Fruytier
- Jun 9 Venezuelan rebel Urbina lets Dutch/Curacaose hostages free
- Jun 14 Prussia and Vatican sign Concord
- Jun 15 1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch
- Jun 16 Otto E. Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (NY to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days)
- Jun 22 Mel Ott (Giants) homers off Leo Sweetland (Phillies) in doubleheader
- Jun 25 US President Herbert Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
- Jun 26 ENKA/Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU (Genl Kunstzijde Union)
- Jun 27 1st color Television demo, performed by Bell Laboratories in NYC
- Jun 27 German President Paul von Hindenburg refuses to pay the German reparation debt of WWI
- Jun 29 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field, California
- Jun 29 31.1°C (88°F) highest temperature on this day in De Bilt, Netherlands
- Jun 29 Mexico & Vatican sign Concord
- Jul 1 US Immigration law of 1924 in effect
- Jul 3 Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber
- Jul 4 AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down
- Jul 5 WOWO-AM, Indiana returns to air, 1 day after transmitter burns down
- Jul 6 St. Louis Cardinals set MLB run record with 28 runs on 28 hits (28-6 v Phillies)
- Jul 7 Romania & Vatican sign concord
- Jul 10 Pittsburgh Pirates outslug Philadelphia Phillies, 15-9 at the Baker Bowl; 9 HRs hit, 1 in each inning - unique in MLB history
- Jul 10 US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
- Jul 15 1st airport hotel opens at Oakland, California
- Jul 17 USSR breaks diplomatic relations with China
- Jul 23 The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words
- Jul 24 NY to San Francisco foot race ends (2½ months) winner is 60-year-old Monteverde
- Jul 24 US President Herbert Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war
- Jul 27 Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished
- Jul 28 Chicago Cardinals become 1st NFL team to train out of state (Michigan)
French History
Jul 31 Aristide Briand becomes premier of France for the 6th time
- Aug 2 Philadelphia 1st baseman Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR in Phillies' 2-0 win v Pittsburgh Pirates
- Aug 4 Cleveland Indians, trailing 6-5 in 9th with 2 outs score AL record tying 9 runs, beat NY Yankees 14-6
- Aug 4 Jones Beach in NY opens
- Aug 6 Young Plan, which sought to settle German reparations debts after World War I, is agreed
- Aug 7 Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch government
First Zeppelin Round the World Flight
Aug 8 German airship Graf Zeppelin begins the first round-the-world flight by airship, leaving Lakehurst, New Jersey
- Aug 8 Salem airport in Oregon dedicated
- Aug 10 Grover Alexander beats Phils 7-1 for his 373rd & last NL win
- Aug 11 New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth becomes first MLB player to hit 500 home runs (off Willis Hudlin) in 6-5 loss to Indians at League Park, Cleveland
- Aug 11 Persia & Iraq sign friendship treaty
- Aug 11 Russian-Chinese border fights
- Aug 14 Jewish Agency for Palestine forms
- Aug 20 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
- Aug 21 Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town
- Aug 23 Arabs attack Jews in Israel
- Aug 24 Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
- Aug 24 Turkey & Persia sign friendship treaty
Graf Zeppelin
Aug 25 Graf Zeppelin passes over San Francisco for Los Angeles after trans-Pacific voyage
- Aug 28 English cricket all-rounder Frank Woolley scores 176 for Kent v Middlesex at Lord's; his 100th first-class hundred
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Aug 29 Aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh makes her first solo flight
- Aug 29 German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
Young Plan
Aug 31 Committee chaired by Owen D. Young finalizes the "Young Plan" to reduce German reparations from World War I to 112 billion Gold Marks ($US8 billion) paid over 59 years
- Sep 2 Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros
- Sep 2 WOR (NYC) ends affiliation with CBS radio network
- Sep 3 Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches all time high of 381.17, to be shortly followed by the Crash of 1929.
- Sep 5 French premier Aristide Briand requests a United States of Europe
- Sep 11 San Francisco Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
- Sep 14 A's clinch AL pennant with a 5-0 win over White Sox
- Sep 16 Police shoot at strikers in Maastricht, 2 killed
- Sep 17 British troops begin withdrawal from occupied Germany
- Sep 18 Pirates loss to Braves & clinch NL pennant for the Cubs
- Sep 18 Preston Sturges' "Strictly Dishonorable" premieres in NYC
- Sep 19 Latvia dictator A Woldemaras chased out
- Sep 21 1st legal pass in Canada was thrown by Gerry Seiberling & 1st reception by Ralph Losie of Calgary Altomah-Tigers against Edmonton
1st Instrument Flight
Sep 24 James Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Air Force Base in NY in the first flight to use only instrument guidance to take off, fly a set course and land
- Sep 24 New York Yankee pitcher Tom Zachary ends season 12-0, record for most pitching wins without a loss in one season
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House
Sep 25 Dutch Queen mother Emma opens cancer hospital Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam
- Sep 26 John Schrober becomes chancellor of Austria
- Sep 28 1st CF interception return for a touchdown (Joe Hess-U of Alberta)
- Sep 30 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
- Oct 1 Spanish pianist José Iturbi makes his US debut with Leopold Stokowski and The Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia
- Oct 3 British Labour government recovers diplomatic relations with USSR
Death of Dr. Stresemann
Oct 3 Julius Curtius succeeds Gustav Stresemann as German foreign minister after the later passed away
- Oct 3 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia
Viola Concerto
Oct 3 William Walton's Viola Concerto premieres during the Proms at the Queen's Hall, London; composer Paul Hindemith is soloist with the Henry Wood Symphony Orchestra conducted by Walton
MacDonald Addresses Congress
Oct 7 Ramsay MacDonald is first British Prime Minister to address US Congress
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