Feb 13 Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap &murder of Lindbergh's infant

Feb 06 Board game "Monopoly" goes on sale for the first time

Feb 01 James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy

Feb 09 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee

Feb 10 Pennsylvania RR begins passenger service on new streamlined electric locomotive

Feb 12 Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean

Feb 02 Lie detector first used in court

Feb 13 Bruno Richard Hauptmann is found guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnapping and death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh.

Feb 09 US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson

Feb 11 First US airplane flight with auto slung beneath the fuselage, New York Why?

Feb 06 First election to allow women to vote in Turkey

Feb 28 Nylon discovered by Dr Wallace H Carothers

Feb 11 -11ºF (-24ºC), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low)

Feb 01 First "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol

Feb 26 RADAR-Radio Detection & Ranging first demonstrated (Robert Watson-Watt)

Feb 26 Germany began Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering

Apr 08 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1344 Caubeta

Apr 20 On the island of Formosa a 7.1 quake causes 3,280 deaths. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes

Apr 21 The birth of Charles Grodin, American actor

Apr 02 Mary Hirsch, becomes first woman licensed as a horse trainer

Apr 12 A Royal Proclamation sets design of Canada's new Jubilee Silver Dollar.

Apr 03 Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44)

Apr 26 Frank Boucher is given the NHL's Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship permanently for winning it 7 of 11 years

Apr 01 L Boyer discovers asteroid #1344 Caubeta

Apr 16 The first radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly"

Apr 30 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1355 Magoeba & #1368 Numidia

Apr 05 Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election

Apr 08 First radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY

Apr 03 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1354 Botha and #1948 Kampala

Apr 06 H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses &sinks 371 more

Apr 01 First radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY

Apr 02 Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR

Apr 18 Gen Sarazen's double eagle on the 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters

Apr 03 Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2 26 44)

Apr 19 The birth of Dudley Moore, British actor

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