Jun 12 Al Capone is indicted for violating Prohibition laws.

Jun 23 Wiley Post &Harold Catty took off for flight around world

Jun 06 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1210 Morosovia

Jun 09 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1197 Rhodesia

Jun 09 The rocket-fueled aircraft design is patented by Robet Goddard

Jun 19 The first photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct

Jun 09 Goddard patents rocket-fueled aircraft design

Jun 14 French "St Philbert" overturned off St Nazaire France, drowns 450

Jun 29 109ø F (43ø C), Monticello, Florida (state record)

Dec 11 Pierre Pilote Hockey Hall of Famer: NHL: Chicago Black Hawks defenseman was born

Dec 26 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play "Of Thee I Sing" opens on Broadway

Dec 11 Pierre Pilote Hockey Hall of Famer NHL Chicago Black Hawks defenseman was born

Dec 09 Spain becomes a republic

Dec 11 British Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd

Dec 29 Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey

Dec 07 The last Ford Model A was produced on this day. The Ford motor works were then shut down for six months for retooling.

Dec 11 The birth of Rita Moreno, American actress and dancer

Dec 10 Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize

Dec 25 New York's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio

Aug 16 Near Valentine, Texas a 5.8 quake was the largest historical earthquake in Texas.

Oct 19 The birth of John Le Carre, English author

Oct 07 First infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY

Oct 07 The birth of Rev Desmond Tutu, South african human rights campaigner

Oct 16 Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd kills her first victim

Oct 04 " Extra! Extra! Read all about it!" Gumshoe Dick Tracy debuted in The Detroit Mirror. A week later, The New York Daily News and hundreds of others picked up the Chester Gould comic strip.

Oct 17 Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison

Oct 24 George Washington Bridge connecting NY to NJ opens

Oct 05 The first nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Wash (Herndon & Pangborn)

Oct 04 The comic strip Dick Tracy by Chester Gould debuts

Jul 23 Ashmore & Cartier Is in Indian Ocean transferred to Australia

Jul 18 The first air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched

Jul 21 Reno race track, becomes first in US to use daily double wagering

Jul 28 Congress makes "The Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem

Jul 23 France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics

Jul 01 Ice vending machines introduced in LA

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