May 03 Prussia bans anti-fascists

May 21 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC

May 19 General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek Government

May 27 2nd Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England

May 12 The birth of Burt Bacharach, American Composer

May 19 Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium; 2 people crushed to death

May 11 Dr Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin TX

May 16 The first ever Academy Awards (Oscars) are held

May 16 The first-ever Academy Awards are presented at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel

May 23 Canada's first airborne wedding takes place in a bi-plane over Regina.

May 11 The first regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)

May 15 Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland OH)

May 08 Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway

May 31 Atlantic City Convention Center opens

May 11 First regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)

May 27 2nd Ryder Cup Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England

May 01 Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen

May 01 In Iran a 7.4 earthquake resulted in 3,300 deaths. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes.

May 01 Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin

May 23 First non-stop Winnipeg-to-Edmonton flight made in six hours and 48 minutes. (and it still takes about 6 hours for the trip)

May 12 Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary)

Jan 25 Bradman scores 340* for New South Wales vs Victoria, 488 minutes, 38 fours

Jan 17 Popeye makes first appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theatre"

Jan 13 Humanist Society established, Hollywood CA

Jan 17 King Inayatullah of Afghanistan forced to abdicate after a coup; he ruled for only three days.

Jan 31 Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey

Jan 18 "New York Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio

Jan 06 Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia

Jan 15 The birth of Martin Luther King, US black civil rights campaigner

Jan 14 Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign

Jan 02 US &Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls

Jan 03 Bradman scores 112 vs England at MCG - his first Test century

Jan 18 Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo

Jan 05 Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia

Jan 26 Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence

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