Jun 12 The birth of Anne Frank, Dutch wartime diarist

Jun 28 The following railways are jointly acquired by Canadian National and Canadian Pacific and operated under a newly incorporated company, the Northern Alberta Railways Edmonton, Dunvegan &British Columbia Railway (447 miles) Alberta &Great Waterways Railway (286 miles) Central Canada Railway (98 miles) Pembina Valley Railway (26 miles) A total of 857 miles.

Jun 11 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1147 Stavropolis

Jun 27 The first color TV demo (NYC)

Jun 25 Pres Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)

Dec 01 BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe

Dec 05 SS Frances Duncan, built 1907 by Palmers Newcastle on Tyne. Foundered off Lands End, Cornwall, while carrying coal from Barry, South Wales to Rouen, France. 16 lost out of the crew of 21.

Dec 16 The first NHL game at Chicago Stadium (Black Hawks)

Dec 21 First group hospital insurance plan effected, Dallas TX

Dec 05 First US nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, NYC)

Dec 20 Mount Davidson dedicated as a San Francisco city park

Dec 28 Wilfred Wop May 1896-1952 flies first official air mail north to Aklavik NWT

Dec 30 Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates

Dec 13 The birth of Christopher Plummer, Stage and screen actor

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

Oct 20 Bayshore Highway opens in San Francisco

Oct 28 The first child born in aircraft, Miami, Fl

Oct 29 Black Tuesday, where fearful investors crashed the New York Stock Exchange through their panicked selling of stocks, starts the Great Depression in America.

Oct 24 "Black Thursday", one of the biggest Wall Street crash, spells out the beginning of the great American depression.

Oct 24 "Black Thursday," beginning of stock market crash

Oct 25 Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe

Oct 03 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia

Oct 29 "Black Tuesday," Stock Market crashes triggers "Great Depression"

Oct 03 Yugoslavia formed, uniting three separate kingdoms

Oct 29 Black Tuesday' New York's Wall Street crash

Jul 15 The first airport hotel opens-Oakland Ca

Jul 10 US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency

Jul 24 Pres Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war

Jul 05 A Deutsch discovers asteroid #1148 Rarahu

Jul 07 The Vatican City State, with the Pope as leader, created

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