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End of the Long March
Oct 20 Communist forces end their Long March at Yan'an, in Shaanxi, China, bringing Mao Zedong to prominence
MVP Hank Greenberg
Oct 20 Detroit Tigers future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Hank Greenberg is named AL MVP by the BWAA; Boston Red Sox pitcher Wes Ferrell is runner-up
- Oct 22 Establishment of the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union
- Oct 23 American mobsters Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot by organized crime hitmen at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey, what becomes known as "The Chophouse Massacre" to prevent them from killing the US Attorney prosecuting Schultz for tax evasion, what becomes known as "The Chophouse Massacre"
- Oct 23 Chicago Cubs catcher Gabby Hartnett selected NL MVP
King's Third Term
Oct 23 Mackenzie King is elected as Prime Minister of Canada for the third time
Murder in the Cathedral
Nov 1 T. S. Eliot's play "Murder in the Cathedral" premieres in London
- Nov 3 George II returns to Greece after 12 years and regains monarchy
- Nov 3 Korean runner Sohn Kee-chung sets new men's marathon world record, 2:26:42 in Tokyo, Japan
- Nov 3 Philadelphia Eagles beat Boston Redskins, 7-6 at Fenway Park; respective quarterbacks combine to throw an NFL record 11 interceptions
- Nov 5 Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of Maryland to admit Donald Murray, a black man
- Nov 5 Parker Brothers launches the board game Monopoly
- Nov 6 1st test flight of Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft
Joseph Stalin Proclaims
Nov 7 Addressing a meeting of Stakhanovites, Joseph Stalin utters his famous phrase "life has become better"
Mutiny on the Bounty
Nov 8 "Mutiny on the Bounty" directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable premieres in New York (Best Production/Picture 1936)
- Nov 9 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms
- Nov 11 Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over South Dakota
- Nov 12 Egas Moniz performs the first modern brain surgery on the frontal lobes to treat mental disorders, at Santa Marta Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal
- Nov 13 Anti-British riots in Egypt
- Nov 14 Nazis deprive German Jews of their citizenship
- Nov 15 "A Night at the Opera", comedy film directed by Sam Wood, starring the Marx Brothers, is released
- Nov 15 Commonwealth of Philippines inaugurated
Jumbo
Nov 16 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Jumbo" premieres in NYC
- Nov 21 Jean Giraudoux' "La Guerre de Troie n'Aura" premieres in Paris
- Nov 22 Flying boat "China Clipper" takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight
- Nov 24 The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
- Nov 25 International Institute for Social History (IISG) forms in Amsterdam
Michael Joseph Savage
Nov 29 Michael Joseph Savage becomes the first Labour party Prime Minister of New Zealand
Schrödinger's cat
Nov 29 Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his famous thought experiment "Schrödinger's cat", a paradox that illustrates the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics
- Dec 1 Austria has world's 1st Day of Postage Stamp
- Dec 4 1,200 at St Joseph's College (Philadelphia) enroll in anticommunism class
- Dec 5 First commercial hydroponics operation established (Montebello, California)
- Dec 5 National Council of Negro Women forms by Mary McLeod Bethune (NYC)
- Dec 8 The Japanese military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect Oomoto, beginning with a crackdown on the sect's operational bases of Ayabe and Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture and the arrest of its leader Onisaburo Deguchi.
- Dec 9 1st Heisman Trophy Award: Jay Berwanger, Chicago (HB)
- Dec 9 Walter Liggett American newspaper editor and muckraker killed in gangland murder.
Neuron Discovery Wins Nobel
Dec 10 James Chadwick is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of the neutron
Marie Curie Daughter Wins Nobel
Dec 10 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Irene Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie Curie) and her husband Frédéric Joliot for the discovery of artificial radioactivity
Foxx to the Red Sox
Dec 10 Philadelphia Athletics sell infielder Jimmie Foxx's contract to Boston Red Sox for $150,000 (about $2.8M in 2020 dollars)
- Dec 10 White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000
- Dec 14 Test Cricket debut of "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith v South Africa, Durban
- Dec 15 In major upset, Dutch grand master Max Euwe becomes World Chess Champion beating Russian Alexander Alekhine (9 wins, 13 draws, 8 losses) in Zandvoort, Netherlands
Douglas DC-3's 1st Flight
Dec 17 1st flight of the Douglas DC-3 (C-47 Skytrain/Dakota) airplane.
Beneš Succeeds Masaryk
Dec 18 Edvard Beneš becomes President of Czechoslovakia after Tomáš Masaryk retires
- Dec 18 The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon
- Dec 22 Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura
- Dec 24 National Council of Negro Women forms
- Dec 28 Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union
- Dec 28 W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC
- Dec 30 Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
- Dec 31 Charles Darrow patents the board game Monopoly, goes on to be the 1st millionaire game designer
- Dec 31 CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party
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