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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

Mar 31 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall

Mar 20 Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR

Mar 06 John Philip Sousa, composer, dies.

Mar 01 The infant son of Anne and Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped from their home near Hopewell, NJ.

Mar 12 The so-called "Swedish Match King", Ivar Kreuger, commits suicide in Paris, leaving behind a financial empire that turns out to be worthless

Mar 17 German police raid Hitler's Nazi-headquarter

Mar 01 The baby son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped

Mar 19 Sydney Harbour Bridge officially opened by New South Wales Premier Jack Lang

Mar 07 Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn MI, kills 4

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

Sep 03 Ellsworth Vines beats Henri Cochet for US tennis title

Sep 23 Kingdom of Hejaz andNejd renamed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Sep 07 The birth of John Paul Getty II, American philathropist

Sep 01 NYC Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges)

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