Dec 26 The Nissan Motor Company was organized in Tokyo under the name Dat Jidosha Seizo Co

Dec 24 Paris express train derails and kills 160, injures 300 (France) 1936 first radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca

Dec 19 Electric Home and Farm Authority Inc, authorized

Dec 21 Dried human blood serum first prepared, University of Pennsylvania

Dec 08 Secretary of the Navy establishes Fleet Marine Force, integrating a ready-to-deploy Marine force with own aircraft into Fleet organization.

Dec 05 In America, prohibition is repealed after over 13 years

May 18 Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams

May 27 Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago

May 15 The first voice amplification system to be used in US Senate

May 30 Patent on invisible glass installation

May 09 Spanish anarchists call for general strike

May 12 Federal Emergency Relief Administration & Agricultural Adjustment Administration form to help the needy & farmers

May 10 Paraguay declares war on Bolivia

May 10 Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany

May 27 Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released

May 10 Nazis burn 'un-German' books outside Berlin University

May 27 Austrian communist party banned

May 10 Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) forms

May 03 The birth of James Brown, American singer

May 22 Loch Ness Monster is first reportedly sighted by John Mackay

May 02 In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions

May 06 Italy & USSR sign trade agreement

May 26 2nd emergency Dutch Government of Colijn forms

May 22 World Trade Day/National Maritime Day first celebrated

May 21 Mount Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph

May 23 Parliament passes Canadian National-Canadian Pacific Act; directing the two companies to cooperate during the Depression.

May 04 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador)

May 10 Public burning of Jewish and anti-Nazi books.

May 08 Gandhi, in India, begins a hunger strike in protest against the British

May 10 Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands

May 10 The Nazis stage massive book burnings in Germany

May 03 The United States Mint was under the direction of a woman for the first time. Mrs. Nellie Ross assumed command.

May 27 Federal Securities Act signed

May 27 The Academy-Award-winning animated short The Three Little Pigs, is released by young animator Walt Disney

May 22 John Mackay makes the first reported sighting of the Loch Ness Monster

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