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- Jan 1 1st Orange Bowl: Bucknell beats Miami (FL), 26-0
- Jan 1 Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto
- Jan 1 Eastern Airlines hires Eddie Rickenbacker as GM
- Jan 1 President Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Ataturk: Father of Turkey"
Lindbergh Murder Trial Begins
Jan 2 Bruno Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap-murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby
- Jan 4 Ft Jefferson National Monument, Florida established
Franco-Italian Agreement
Jan 7 French Foreign minister Pierre Laval and Benito Mussolini sign the Franco-Italian Agreement
- Jan 7 Zoe Akins' "Old Maid" premieres in NYC
- Jan 8 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy
Earhardt Flies Honolulu to Oakland
Jan 11 Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu to Oakland, California (non-stop, of course)
- Jan 13 Plebiscite in Saar indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany
- Jan 14 Iraq-Mediterranean oil pipeline goes into use
- Jan 15 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition
- Jan 15 Clifford Odets' first produced play "Waiting for Lefty" premieres in NYC
- Jan 19 Coopers Inc. sells the world's first men's briefs in Chicago, calls it the "Jockey"
- Jan 19 KLM begins flight path between Curacao & Aruba
- Jan 21 12.0" (30.5 cm) of rain falls, Quinault RS, Washington (state record)
- Jan 21 The Wilderness Society is founded by conservationists
- Jan 21 WFI-AM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ)
Beer in a Can
Jan 24 1st canned beer, "Krueger's Cream Ale," is sold by American company Krueger Brewing Co.
- Jan 28 Iceland becomes 1st western country to legalize abortion
Ezra Pound Meets Mussolini
Jan 30 Ezra Pound meets Benito Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos"
- Feb 1 1st "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol
- Feb 1 James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy
- Feb 2 Leonarde Keeler first uses his polygraph machine on criminals later convicted of assault on its findings in Portage, Wisconsin
- Feb 6 "Monopoly" board game goes on sale for 1st time
- Feb 6 1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey
- Feb 11 -11°F (-24°C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low)
- Feb 11 1st US airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, NY
Radar Demonstrated
Feb 12 First secret demonstration of radio signals detecting aircraft by Robert Watson-Watt and Arnold Wilkins at Daventry, England
- Feb 12 Great airship, USS Macon lost in a storm off Point Sur, California with the loss of two lives, with 64 people saved
- Feb 13 1st US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland
- Feb 13 Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap & murder of Lindbergh infant. He proclaimed his innocence to the end.
- Feb 19 Clifford Odets' "Awake & Sing" premieres in NYC
- Feb 20 Dane Caroline Mikkelson is 1st woman to land on Antarctica
The Little Colonel
Feb 22 "The Little Colonel" premieres starring Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore and Bill Robinson, featuring famous stair dance with Hollywood's first interracial dance couple
- Feb 22 Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
Luftwaffe Re-forms
Feb 26 Existence of re-formed German Luftwaffe revealed (banned in 1920 by Treaty of Versailles) with Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring as commander-in-chief
- Feb 26 RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt and Arnold Wilkins at Daventry, England
Academy Awards
Feb 27 7th Academy Awards: "It Happened One Night", Clark Gable, and Claudette Colbert win
- Feb 28 Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit
- Feb 28 Ladby Ship is discovered within a Viking grave on the island of Funen in Denmark by amateur archaeologist Poul Helweg Mikkelsen
- Feb 28 Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon polymer
- Mar 3 Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms
- Mar 5 1st premature baby health law in US (Chicago)
- Mar 6 Frank Bartell (Czech), cycles record 80.584 mph in LA
Bluebird Sets Land Speed Record
Mar 7 Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of 276.71 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car; last record set at Daytona Beach, Florida
- Mar 7 Saar incorporated into Germany
Hitler Announces Luftwaffe
Mar 9 Adolf Hitler publicly announces the creation of a new air force, the Luftwaffe
- Mar 11 Bank of Canada first opens on Wellington Street, Ottawa
- Mar 11 Hermann Goering officially creates the Luftwaffe (German Air Force)
- Mar 12 Britain establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
- Mar 13 Driving tests introduced in Great Britain
- Mar 14 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars in San Francisco
Headley Steers WI Win
Mar 15 Brilliant batsman George Headley steers West Indies to an innings victory over England in 4th cricket Test at Kingston, Jamaica with a patient, unbeaten 270
- Mar 16 Adolf Hitler orders German rearmament in violation of The Treaty of Versailles
- Mar 17 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR
- Mar 21 Jean Anouilh's play "Y avait un prisonnier" premieres in Paris
- Mar 21 Persia is officially renamed Iran
- Mar 22 Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases in New York
- Mar 24 Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network
- Mar 25 1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns
- Mar 26 RJ Mitchell & Major Sorley discuss armament of Supermarine Spitfire
Triumph of the Will
Mar 28 Influential Nazi Propaganda film "Triumph of the Will" released showing Nuremberg rallies, commissioned by Adolf Hitler and directed by Leni Riefenstahl
Goddard Employs Gyroscopes
Mar 28 Robert Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket
- Mar 30 Newfoundland changes time to 3½ hrs W of Greenwich, repeats 44 sec
- Apr 1 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY
- Apr 2 Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt receives a British patents for RADAR
- Apr 3 Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44)
- Apr 5 Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election
- Apr 6 H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses & sinks 371 more
Bartók's 5th String Quartet
Apr 8 Béla Bartók's 5th String quartet premieres in Washington, D.C.
- Apr 8 Works Progress Administration approved by Congress
Maroons Wrap Up Finals
Apr 9 Stanley Cup Final, Montreal Forum, Montreal, Quebec: Montreal Maroons beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4-1 for 3-0 series sweep; Maroons last defunct team to win the Cup
- Apr 10 Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London
- Apr 12 First flight of the Bristol Blenheim
- Apr 12 Germany prohibits publishing of works by "not-Aryan" writers
- Apr 12 Royal Proclamation sets design of Canada's new Jubilee Silver Dollar
- Apr 14 Black Sunday dust storm ravages the US Midwest, leading to the region being named the "Dust Bowl"
- Apr 16 1st radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly"
- Apr 16 40-year-old future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth debuts in the NL with a HR and single in Boston Braves 4-2 win over the NY Giants, in Boston
- Apr 17 Provincial-National elections (Musserts NSB achieves 7.9%, 44 chairs)
- Apr 18 Gen Sarazen's double eagle on 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters
- Apr 18 Netherlands election (Musserts NSB wins 8% of vote)
Bride of Frankenstein
Apr 19 "Bride of Frankenstein" horror film classic and sequel to "Frankenstein" starring Boris Karloff and Elsa Lancaster is released
- Apr 20 "Your Hit Parade" begins broadcasting (becomes #1 quickly)
- Apr 21 King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties
- Apr 23 Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted
- Apr 26 Frank Boucher is given NHL's Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship permanently for winning it 7 of 11 years
- Apr 27 Brussels World Exposition opens
- Apr 27 Yanks pull a 1st inning triple-play & beat Philadelphia A's 9-8
- Apr 28 Moscow underground railway opens (81 km long)
- Apr 30 World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul
- May 1 Canada's 1st silver dollar is circulated
- May 6 Audrey Wurdemann is the youngest person at 24 to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for "Bright Ambush"
- May 6 KTM-AM in Los Angeles California changes call letters to KEHE (now KABC)
- May 8 MLB Cincinnati Reds catcher Ernie Lombardi doubles in 6th, 7th, 8th & 9th in 15-4 victory over Phillies, in game one of a double header at Philadelphia's Baker Bowl
- May 14 LA's Griffith Planetarium opens, 3rd in US
- May 14 Plebiscite in the Philippines ratifies independence agreement
- May 15 MLB Pittsburgh Pirates squeak past Phillies 20-5 at Philadelphia's Baker Bowl
- May 15 Moscow Metro opens to public; initial phase was 11 km (6.8 mi) long and included 13 stations
Canonization of John Fisher and Thomas More
May 19 English Cardinal John Fisher and statesman Thomas More, both executed by Henry VIII, canonized as saints by Pope Pius XI
- May 19 NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936
- May 23 1st scheduled MLB baseball night game postponed due to rain in Cincinnati, Ohio
- May 24 1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Philadelphia 1)
- May 25 Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs in Pittsburgh, Boston Braves still lose the game 11–7 to the Pirates
The Greatest 45 Minutes in Sports
May 25 Legendary American athlete Jesse Owens equals or breaks 4 world records in 45 minutes at a Big Ten meet at Ferry Field in Ann Arbor, Michigan; remembered as "the greatest 45 minutes ever in sport"
- May 29 French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage, arrived in NYC on June 3rd
- May 29 Hague local museum opens
- May 30 Philadelphia pitcher Jim Bivin retires Babe Ruth on an infield grounder in "the Babe's" final MLB at-bat; Ruth plays just 1 inning in Boston Braves, 11-6 loss to Phillies at the Baker Bowl
- May 31 7.7 magnitude earthquake destroys Quetta in Balochistan, British India (now Pakistan) killing an estimated 40,000 people
Testing Time for Drivers
Jun 1 Compulsory driving tests and license plates introduced in the United Kingdom
- Jun 2 Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth announces his retirement as a player at 40 years of age
- Jun 3 French liner SS Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of four days, three hours and 14 minutes on her maiden voyage
- Jun 3 One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario
- Jun 9 Ho-Umezu Agreement: the Republic of China, under KMT administration, recognizes Japanese occupations in Northeast China.
Please Don’t Drink To My Success
Jun 10 In Akron, Ohio, Dr. Robert H. Smith (Dr. Bob) from Akron & Bill Wilson from New York City form Alcoholics Anonymous (date of Smith's last drink)
- Jun 11 Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey
- Jun 12 Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco (Bolivia vs Paraguay)
Braddock Upsets Baer
Jun 13 10-to-1 underdog James J. Braddock upsets defending champion Max Baer in a 15 round unanimous points decision at Madison Square Garden, NYC for the world heavyweight boxing title
- Jun 13 Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs v Somerset
- Jun 14 Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends
Eden's Offer to Mussolini
Jun 23 UK Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden offers Benito Mussolini a Somalian harbor
Louis KOs Carnera
Jun 25 Future world heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis moves to 20-0 with 6th round KO of former champion Primo Carnera of Italy at Yankee Stadium, NYC
- Jun 26 Lloyd Waner sets record of 18 putouts in center in doubleheader
- Jun 26 SDAP & CPH achieve majority in city council in Amsterdam
- Jun 26 Surrey's former England Test cricket batsman Andy Sandham scores his 100th first class century (103) v Hampshire at Basingstoke
- Jun 26 Work service for recent graduates becomes obligatory in Germany
- Jun 27 Danno O'Mahoney beats Jim Londos in Boston, to become wrestling champ
- Jun 28 Earl Averill's consecutive-game streak ends at 673
- Jun 28 FDR orders a federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox, Kentucky
- Jun 29 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Sunset Ridge CC: Opal Hill scores an easy, 9 & 7 win over Mrs. S.L. Reinhart to claim her first of 2 consecutive major titles
- Jun 30 Danno O'Mahoney beats Ed George in Boston, to become wrestling champ
- Jun 30 The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress
- Jul 1 Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANP, General Dutch Press Agency) forms in Amsterdam
- Jul 2 Great Britain amateur boxing team beats United States in the first International Golden Gloves tournament in NYC, New York
- Jul 5 1st "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcast
- Jul 5 FDR signs US National Labor Relations Act, effective the next day
- Jul 5 Tony Cuccinello (Brooklyn Dodgers) and Al Cuccinello (New York Giants) become first brothers to both hit a MLB homer in the same game; Dodgers win 14-4
- Jul 6 Rotterdam architect A van de Steurs Museum Boymans opens
- Jul 12 Belgium recognizes Soviet Union
Strauss Resigns Nazi Office
Jul 13 Richard Strauss resigns as chairman of Reichsmusikkammer, (Nazi Reich Chamber of Music)
- Jul 13 US-Russian commerce treaty takes effect
- Jul 16 First automatic parking meter in the United States is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Jul 17 "Variety" publishes famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix"
- Jul 18 Amsterdam city council accept city growth plan through the year 2000
- Jul 20 1st broadcast of "Gang Busters" on NBC-radio
- Jul 20 Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen
- Jul 22 Lester Walton appointed US minister to Liberia
- Jul 24 1st greetings telegram sent in Britain
- Jul 24 The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR
- Jul 27 Floods at Yangtzee Jiang and Hoangh, kill 200,000
- Jul 30 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution
- Jul 31 3rd Dutch government of Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn sworn in
- Aug 7 60% of voters agrees to Nazism in Danzig (Gdańsk)
- Aug 11 Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews
- Aug 13 Roller derby is born when the Transcontinental Roller Derby begins at the Chicago Coliseum
- Aug 14 Social Security Act becomes law
- Aug 20 Military coup by General Pons & President Ibarra in Ecuador
- Aug 26 CCC camp opens in Brecksville Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks
- Aug 29 2nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 5, All-Stars 0 (77,450)
- Aug 31 1st national skeet championship in Indianapolis
- Aug 31 Chicago White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleveland Indians, 5-0
- Aug 31 FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents
- Aug 31 Russian miner Aleksey Stachanov digs 102 tons of coal in under 6 hours, using a jackhammer
- Sep 2 Labor Day hurricane makes landfall in Florida, killing 423 people, the strongest and most intense hurricane ever to make landfall in the United States
- Sep 3 Andrew Varipapa sets bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games
- Sep 3 First automobile to exceed 300cmph, Malcolm Campbell powers Bluebird to 301.129mph at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
Steamboat Round the Bend
Sep 6 "Steamboat Round the Bend" film directed by John Ford and starring Will Rogers released weeks after Rogers' death
Howard Hughes' Record Flight
Sep 12 Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed H-1 racer plane at then record 352.46 mph (567 km/hr) at Santa Ana, California
President Manuel L. Quezon
Sep 17 Manuel L. Quezon y Molina is elected the second President of the Philippines
Winterset
Sep 25 Maxwell Anderson's play "Winterset" premieres in NYC
- Sep 27 Chicago Cubs win 21st consecutive game & clinch NL pennant
Porgy and Bess
Sep 30 George Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess" premieres in Boston
- Sep 30 The Boulder Dam (later the Hoover Dam), astride the border of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Oct 2 NY Hayden Planetarium, 4th in US, opens
- Oct 3 Italy invades Ethiopia, starting the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
- Oct 6 Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia
- Oct 6 Market Street Railway, San Francisco, starts using trackless trolley coaches
- Oct 10 Coup under Gen Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy
- Oct 10 George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway NY
- Oct 10 League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia
- Oct 15 NHL's St Louis Eagles fold
- Oct 17 Pacific Association of AAU votes not to participate in Berlin Olympics
Red Army in Shanxi
Oct 19 Mao Zedong's Red Army reaches Shanxi in Northern China
- Oct 20 400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid
- Oct 20 Anti-fascist People's Front forms in Brussels
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