Mar 28 Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador

Mar 31 Aviators Kingsford Smith, Ulm, Litchfield and McWilliam leave Sydney for England in Southern Cross; they were forced down in northwest Australia and lost until April 12).

Mar 22 USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor

Mar 14 NAS Pensacola aircraft make 113 flights for flood rescue and relief

Mar 20 British Columbia Telephone Company sets up subsidiary, North-West Telephone Company, the world's first radiotelephone company

Mar 06 Turkey &Bulgaria sign friendship treaty

Mar 04 Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes first native American Vice President

Mar 04 Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st President

Mar 23 First telephone installed in White House

Mar 17 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid

Mar 17 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel

Mar 22 U.S. Coast Guard vessel sinks Canadian schooner 'I'm Alone' carrying 2,800 cases of liquor, in the Gulf of Mexico off coast of Louisiana

Mar 07 In the Fox Islands, Alaska a 7.8 earthquake occurred, one of the largest earthquakes in the United States

Mar 02 Congress creates Court of Customs &Patent Appeals

Mar 08 US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia

Aug 08 German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight

Aug 20 First airship flight around the Earth flying eastward completed

Aug 08 Salem Oregon airport dedicated

Aug 29 German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight

Aug 10 Canadian National Railways place in service the first road diesel electric passenger locomotive. This consisted of two units, weighing a total of 335 tons.

Aug 25 Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage

Sep 24 Lt James H Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in the first all-instrument flight

Sep 28 The Hudson Bay Railway reaches its northern terminus at Churchill, Manitoba. This was originally operated by Canadian National on behalf of the Government. It became part of the CN system on September 5, 1951.

Sep 19 Adam West, actor (Batman) born

Sep 24 Lieutenant James H. (Jimmy) Doolittle pilots a biplane over Mitchel Field in New York to make the first all-instrument flight.

Sep 30 First manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)

Sep 11 SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system

Feb 13 Cruiser Act OKs construction of 19 new cruisers &an aircraft carrier

Feb 15 St Valentine's Day massacre (Chicago)

Feb 17 The birth of Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader and Nobel Prize winner

Feb 14 The St Valentines Day Massacre, in Chicago, between rival gansters

Feb 28 The birth of Frank O. Gehry, American architect

Feb 14 Seven rivals of mobster Al Capone are murdered in a Chicago garage, now remembered as the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre."

Feb 05 Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in San Francisco

Feb 27 Turkey signs Litvinov-pact

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