Dec 11 Snow falls in San Francisco

Dec 27 Radio City Music Hall opens (New York NY)

Dec 28 Henry Vernon 'Harry' Howell hockey player, defenseman, was born at Hamilton, Ontario

Dec 05 German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa

Aug 24 The first transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart

Aug 24 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the U.S. nonstop, completing a 19-hour flight from Los Angeles to Newark, NJ.

Aug 02 The birth of Peter O'Toole, British actor

Aug 22 BBS begins experimental regular TV broadcasts

Aug 14 10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles closes

Aug 25 Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight

Oct 23 "Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio

Oct 29 French liner Normandie is launched

Oct 10 "Betty & Bob" premiers on radio

Oct 11 The first political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, NYC

Jul 03 John McGraw retires from baseball

Jul 28 Pres Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment

Jul 30 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles

Jul 05 Oliveira Salazar becomes dictator of fascist Portugal

Jul 06 First class postage back up to 3. from 2.

Jul 02 FDR makes first presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech

Jul 18 US & Canada signed a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway

Jul 23 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1246 Chaka

Jul 15 The Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway is opened throughout between North Bay and Moosonee, Ont. Construction was started on May 10, 1902. The name was subsequently changed to Ontario Northland Transportation.

Jul 30 G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #2253 Espinette

Jul 08 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1255 Schilowa

Jul 30 The Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles, CA. The Games would revisit Los Angeles -- and the same venues of the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Rose Bowl, etc. -- in 1984.

Jul 08 Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22

Jul 01 NY Gov FDR nominated for president at the Dem Convention in Chicago

Jul 31 Nazi Party wins 230 seats in Reichstag and begins negotiations for Hitler to be accepted as Chancellor.

Mar 29 Jack Benny debuts on radio

Mar 09 Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria

Mar 31 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine

Mar 27 De Bataven soccer team forms in Gendt

Mar 09 Eamon De Valera becomes President of Ireland

Mar 30 Amelia Earhart is first woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic

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