Sep 02 Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers

Sep 18 The American CBS broacasting organisation is created

Jun 16 Tommy Armour wins golf's US open

Jun 29 First flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii

Jun 29 Wallace Turnbull's variable-pitch propeller first tested on an Avro 504 trainer; Rothesay, NB, aeronautical engineer creates one of Canada's great global inventions.

Jun 30 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes

Jun 13 Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A Lindbergh to NYC

Jun 23 Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in 11-4 victory over Red Sox

Jun 30 Augusto Cesar Sandino issues his Manifesto Politico

Jun 28 The birth of Mel Brooks, American comedy director and actor

Dec 27 In London England, the Daily Mail publishes the world's first wire photo, the invention of Winnipeg born engineer William Stephenson, later know as Intrepid, head of British security in North America during World War II.

Dec 17 US sub 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard

Dec 02 Henry Ford unveils the first Model A automobile, successor to the Model T, in New York City's Waldorf Hotel.

Dec 14 Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain

Dec 27 "Show Boat" opens at the Ziegfeld Theater (New York NY)

Dec 27 Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled

Dec 27 Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party

Dec 04 Duke Ellington opens at the Cotton Club in Harlem

Dec 30 Japan dedicates first subway in the Orient (route under 2 miles long)

Dec 15 Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads

Dec 10 Grand Ole Opry makes its first radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN

Aug 13 The birth of Fidel Castro, Cuban leader

Aug 23 Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed in Boston for murdering two men during a 1920 robbery. (They were posthumously exhonerated in 1977.)

Aug 06 The third Toronto Union Station is opened officially by Edward, Prince of Wales. It was opened to the public on August 11, but passengers had to walk across to the old station tracks. The first day on which trains used the new, elevated, tracks through the new station platform was January 31, 1930.

Aug 04 Peace Bridge between US & Canada opened

Aug 27 Parks College, America's oldest aviation school, opens

Oct 11 Lou Gehrig elected MVP

Oct 25 Criminals Squizzy Taylor and Snowy Cutmore die in shootout at Carlton, Melbourne.

Oct 18 The birth of George C Scott, American actor and director

Oct 23 City of Netanya, Israel founded

Jul 12 Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 HRs

Jul 03 The birth of Ken Russell, British film director

Jul 24 Opening of the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Ypres, Belgium The gate records the names of over 56,000 allied soldiers, among them 6,176 Australian soldiers of the First Australian Imperial Force (AIF), missing in the battles near Ypres during the First World War

Jul 14 The first commercial airplane flight in Hawaii

Jul 16 Augusto Sandino begins 5«-year war against US occupation of Nicaragua

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