Jul 07 Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbeldon doubles championship

Jul 22 John Dillinger shot dead at Biograph Theater in Chicago

Jul 14 NY Times erronously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time

Jul 10 The first sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia

Jul 12 US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned

Jul 14 116ø F (47ø C), Orogrande, New Mexico (state record)

Jul 20 118ø F (48ø C), Keokuk, Iowa (state record)

Jul 16 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1334 Lundmarka

Jul 24 The first ptarmigan hatched & reared in captivity, Ithaca, NY

Jul 10 USS Houston takes Franklin Delano Roosevelt on first visit of U.S. President to South America.

Jul 14 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1325 Inanda & #1326 Losaka

Jul 03 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1367 Nongoma

Jul 21 113ø F (45ø C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record)

Jul 11 FDR became first pres to travel through Panama Canal

Jul 04 Chaim Nachman Bialik zionist poet, dies

Jul 13 The birth of Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer

Mar 12 Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail

Mar 11 Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer

Mar 20 Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Kiel Germany

Mar 10 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Suzanne Davis

Mar 21 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500

Mar 01 Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang The of Manchuria

Mar 08 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars

Mar 22 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000)

Mar 04 Easter Cross on Mount Davidson (San Francisco) dedicated

Mar 07 Netherlands Princess Juliana opens Juliana Canal

Mar 02 Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha

Mar 10 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Roger Turner

Mar 07 World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines

Mar 23 US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945

Mar 17 Dollfuss, Mussolini and Gömbös sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome)

Mar 26 Driving tests introduced in Britain

Mar 07 Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autonomous Region

Mar 03 John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol

Mar 05 Mother-in-law's day first celebrated (Amarillo TX)

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