May 01 Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)

May 11 General Electric opens first TV-station (Schenectady NY)

May 12 Opium laws enforced

May 22 US Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act

May 23 Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die

May 29 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car

May 17 9th modern Olympic games open in Amsterdam

May 24 Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again

May 12 Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy

May 19 51 frogs enter first annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp CA)

May 25 Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is first woman to fly Atlantic Ocean

May 28 Dodge Brothers Inc & Chrysler Corp merged

May 01 Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter

May 15 Mickey Mouse made his first appearance

May 19 "Firedamp" explodes in Mather PA coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners

May 07 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey)

May 31 First aerial cross of the Pacific takes off from Oakland

May 01 6 children die &10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania

May 14 John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab & suffers a broken leg

May 07 England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21

May 01 Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service

Jan 25 The birth of Eduard Shevardnadze, Soviet politician

Jan 31 Scotch tape first marketed by 3-M Company

Jan 06 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene)

Jan 17 The first fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented

Jan 31 Scotch tape first marketed by 3-M Company

Jan 28 Christopher Hornsrud chosen PM of Norway at age 101

Jan 17 The first fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented

Jan 12 Vladimir Horowitz debuts as soloist with the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall.

Jan 26 The birth of Roger Vadim, French director

Jan 01 The first US air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio

Jan 26 The birth of Eartha Kitt, American singer/actress

Jan 01 The first US air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio

Jan 06 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene)

Jan 10 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky

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