May 01 Bradman scores 236 Australia vs Worcestershire, his first f-class innings in England

May 13 Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock TX; this is the only known fatality due to hail

May 31 Bradman gets his 1,000th run of the English Cricket season

May 16 6th Walker Cup: US 10-Great Britain/Ireland 2

May 05 Bradman scores 185 Australia vs Leicestershire, 317 minutes, 16 fours

May 21 New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers

May 27 Widespread unrest in India after Gandhi's arrest

May 31 Comet 73P/1930 (Schwassmann-Wachmann 3) approaches 0.0617 AUs of Earth

May 16 6th Walker Cup US 10-Great Britain/Ireland 2

May 20 The first airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot

May 20 University of California dedicates $1,500 to research on prevention & cure of athlete's foot

May 05 The first woman to fly solo from England to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson)

May 28 Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of New Zealand

May 31 Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium

May 31 The birth of Clint Eastwood, American film actor/director

May 24 Babe Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week

May 26 Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution

May 24 Bradman scores 252 Australia vs Surrey, 290 minutes, 29 fours

May 27 Richard Drew invents masking tape

May 19 White woman win voting rights in South-Africa

May 10 First US planetarium opens (Adler-Chicago)

May 15 Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess (United airlines, San Francisco to Cheyenne, WY)

May 24 The first woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)

May 10 Clarrie Grimmett takes 10 for 37 vs Yorkshire at Sheffield

May 12 Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures)

Jan 05 Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"

Jan 16 USS Lexington provides power to Tacoma, WA, when floods knocked out city power plants

Jan 20 The birth of Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, The second man to walk on the Moon

Jan 24 J E Mills scores 117 on Test Cricket debut, New Zealand vs England, Wellington

Jan 01 Stormtroopers kill 8 Jews, the first victims of the Nazi era.

Jan 13 "Mickey Mouse" comic strip first appears

Jan 24 Stewie Dempster scores New Zealand's first Test century

Jan 06 The first diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed

Jan 01 Jurgens & Van den Berg merge with Lever Brothers to form Unilever

Jan 15 George Headley scores century on debut vs England (made 176)

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