Jun 15 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1324 Knysna

Dec 29 Japan renounces the London Naval Treaty of 1930 and the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.

Dec 27 First youth hostel in US opens (Northfield, Mass)

Dec 31 Helen Richey becomes first woman to pilot an airmail transport

Dec 02 5.08-m (200") Mt Palomar Observatory mirror is cast

Dec 28 Stalin used the assassination of an aide as an opportunity to execute more than one hundred officials, beginning a series of purges that eliminated most of the old Bolsheviks

Dec 09 The birth of Dame Judi Dench, British actress

Dec 07 Wiley Post discovers the jet stream

Dec 14 First streamlined steam locomotive introduced, Albany NY

Dec 14 Turkish women are given the right to vote.

Aug 06 US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915

Aug 03 Three days of anti-Jewish rioting in Constantine, Algeria leave 23 Jews killed and 35 wounded. The pogroms are traced to Radio-Berlin and Radio-Stuttgart Nazi broadcasts.

Aug 16 The Post office issues 2 cent stamp to commemorate 150th anniversary of founding of New Brunswick

Aug 01 Paul Von Hindenburg dies at 86, Hitler takes over presidency

Aug 01 William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour

Aug 14 Millionaire brewer John Labatt abducted at gunpoint by three men, who asked for a ransom of $150,000, which the kidnappers never received; released unharmed three days later; first recorded kidnapping for ransom in Canada.

Aug 16 US ends occupation of Haiti (been there since 1915)

Aug 02 Death of Hindenberg. Hitler becomes head of state and commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Hitler proclaims himself "Fuehrer" and forces all military personnel to swear allegience to him.

Aug 16 US explorer William Beebe descends 3,028' (1922 m) in Bathysphere

Aug 19 Plebiscite in Germany approved sole executive power to Adolph Hitler

Aug 11 First federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay

Aug 02 William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour

Aug 01 The first airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it

Aug 19 Helen Hull Jacobs win US Lawn Tennis Association

Oct 22 Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, the notorious bank robber and folk hero dies - shot by FBI

Oct 05 The first major network radio show to originate from Hollywood aired on this day. Hollywood Hotel was heard on CBS and was heavily promoted as being the first to broadcast from the West Coast of the U.S.

Oct 08 Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son

Oct 09 King Alexander of Yugoslavia, by Georgief, a Croatian terrorist

Oct 02 Royal Indian Navy is formed

Oct 17 "The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio

Jul 22 Bank robber John Dillinger is shot to death by FBI agents outside of the Biograph Theater in Chicago.

Jul 03 FDIC pays off first insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria IL

Jul 01 First x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, NY

Jul 28 118ø F (48ø C), Orofino, Idaho (state record)

Jul 13 Babe Ruth hits HR #700 against Detroit

« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Next Page »