Sep 10 Charles E Mitchell, named minister to Liberia

Sep 02 The first nonstop airplane flight from Europe to the US is completed as the plane Question Mark lands at Valley Stream, NY.

Sep 29 Boquer¢n battle ends Paraguay border dispute

Jun 07 NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"

Jun 24 The first radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC

Jun 27 P Parchomenko discovers asteroid #1166 Sakuntala

Jun 11 William Beebe sets a deepwater dive record of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda in a bathysphere (diving chamber).

Jun 13 22 people killed by hailstones in Siatista Greece

Jun 28 Lightning strikes drill boat John B. King in the St. Lawrence River, setting off dynamite and killing 31 crew members.

Jun 02 The first baby born on a vessel passing through Panama Canal

Jun 23 Chicago Cubs beat Philadelphia Phillies 21-8

Jun 02 Sarah Dickson becomes first woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati

Jun 24 The birth of Claude Chabrol, French film director

Jun 19 C Jackson &H E Wood discovers asteroid #1595 Tanga

Dec 23 Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in New York NY

Dec 03 Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium)

Dec 19 James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP

Dec 03 The birth of Jean Luc Godard, French director

Dec 15 The birth of Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist

Dec 01 Ruth Nichols becomes first woman pilot to cross the continent

Dec 11 New York's branch of Bank of the United States announced that it had gone belly-up

Dec 25 First US bobsled run open to the public (Lake Placid NY)

Aug 13 Don Ho, Hawaiian singer (Tiny Bubbles) born

Aug 18 Eastern Airlines begins passenger service

Aug 05 The birth of Neil Armstrong, First man on the Moon

Aug 09 Betty Boop debutes in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes

Aug 25 The birth of Sean Connery, Scottish actor

Oct 09 The first transcontinental flight by a woman completed, Laura Ingalls

Oct 05 The New York Philharmonic Orchestra was first heard on the air over CBS radio from Carnegie Hall.

Oct 05 This was a big day for CBS. Following the orchestra broadcast (above), Father Coughlin, The Fighting Priest was first heard on the radio web. He lit up the airwaves with oratory that aired into the early forties.

Oct 25 The first scheduled transcontinental air service began

Oct 20 British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land

Oct 30 Turkey &Greece sign a treaty of friendship

Jul 05 Daredevil George Stathakis dies in a plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel, but his turtle survives.

Jul 07 Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam

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