Sep 19 Mickey Mouse's screen debut (Steamboat Willie at Colony Theater NYC)

Sep 30 Discovery of penicillin announced by Alexander Fleming

Sep 01 Albania becomes a kingdom, with Zogu I as king

Sep 27 US recognizes Nationalist Chinese government

Jun 14 The birth of Ernesto (Che) Guevera, Revolutionary hero

Jun 17 Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become first woman to fly the Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)

Jun 14 Republican Natl Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover

Jun 09 First aerial cross of the Pacific lands in Brisbane Australia

Jun 19 Amelia Erhart flies across the Atlantic Ocean, the first woman to do so in a 21-hour flight to Wales.

Jun 28 Alfred E Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for president at Dem Convention

Jun 18 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. Her solo flight from Newfoundland to Wales took 21 hours.

Jun 08 The first US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)

Dec 19 First autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US

Dec 11 Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover

Dec 13 George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (New York NY)

Dec 20 First international dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montreal, Quebec

Dec 23 NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast network

Aug 24 A subway wreck occurs under Times Square in New York City.

Aug 10 The birth of James Dean, American film actor

Aug 27 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war

Aug 27 16 die in a NYC subway's 2nd worst accident

Aug 12 9th Olympic Games close in Amsterdam

Aug 13 Soviet Union Spartacan Games begins

Aug 31 The birth of James Coburn, American film actor

Oct 14 The birth of Roger Moore, British actor

Oct 03 French sub "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42

Oct 06 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China

Oct 01 First class at school for enlisted Navy and Marine Corps Radio intercept operators (The "On the roof gang")

Oct 11 The birth of Ennio Morricone, Italian composer and film scorer

Oct 01 Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium bicycled 76 miles 504 yards in 1 hour

Oct 15 German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ

Jul 10 H E Wood discovers asteroid #3300

Jul 30 George Eastman demonstrates first color movie

Jul 29 Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" is released

Jul 06 Worlds largest hailstone 1« lbs (17') falls in Potter Nebraska

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