Mar 04 Frances Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor, first US woman cabinet member

Mar 03 German Presidential candidate Earnest Thälmann (KPD) arrested

Mar 27 Japan leaves League of Nations

Mar 01 Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks

Mar 03 Mount Rushmore dedicated

Mar 04 Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament

Mar 20 Establishment of the first concentration camp in Nazi Germany, Dachau.

Mar 18 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson

Aug 11 Temp reaches 136 degrees F (58ø C) at San Luis Potos¡, Mex (world record)

Aug 01 The birth of Dom Deluise, American film actor

Aug 18 The birth of Roman Polanski, Polish director

Sep 14 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire

Sep 04 The first airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il

Sep 01 H.G Wells publishes 'The Shape of the Things to Come'

Feb 01 Dutch bishops forbid membership in non-catholic unions

Feb 27 Nazis set fire to German parliament, blame it on communists

Feb 27 German parliament building (Reichstag) destroyed by fire

Feb 07 Social-Democrat meeting in Berlin "As thousands cheer" Marxism is dead

Feb 28 Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD)

Feb 02 Three days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament. Göring bans communist meetings/demonstrations in Germany

Feb 04 Crew of Dutch "7 Provinces" mutiny after pay cuts

Feb 26 Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field

Feb 07 Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators

Feb 15 Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party

Feb 27 German parliament building, Reichstag, destroyed by fire

Feb 24 Final demonstration of German communist party in Berlin

Feb 15 President-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt

Feb 03 Marinus van der Lubbe departs to Berlin

Feb 09 -63ºF (-53ºC), Moran WY (state record)

Feb 06 The 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution goes into effect, which changes the start of congressional, vice-presidential, and presidential terms from March to January.

Feb 10 Singing telegrams were introduced in the U.S. by the Postal Telegraph Company of New York.

Feb 15 Social-democratic newspaper "Vorwärts" banned again in Berlin

Feb 01 Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname

Feb 10 Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began Feb 4th), 23 killed

Feb 02 2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament

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