Jan 21 The Wilderness Society founded

Jan 07 Zöe Akins' "Old Maid," premieres in New York City NY

Jan 10 Actress Mary Pickford marries actor Douglas Fairbanks

Jan 11 Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to make a solo airplane flight from Hawaii to California.

Jan 24 The first canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale," is sold by Kruger Brewing Co in Richmond VA

Jan 04 Fort Jefferson National Monument, Florida established

Jan 24 Canned Beer is sold for the first time, in Virginia (United States)

Jan 30 Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos"

Jan 08 Citizen are jailed for failing to salute in Strazsund, Germany.

Jan 01 Eastern Airlines hires Eddie Rickenbacker as GM

Jan 01 President Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Atatürk Father of Turkey"

Jan 01 Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto

Jan 02 Bruno Hauptmann stands trial in New Jersey on charges of kidnapping and murdering the Lindbergh baby. Hauptmann is later found guilty and executed.

Jan 04 Bob Hope first heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue"

Jan 01 President Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Atatürk Father of Turkey"

Jan 31 30.5 cm (12.0") of rain falls, Quinault RS WA (state record)

Feb 22 Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House

Feb 13 The first US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland OH

Feb 20 Karoline Mikkelson is first woman on Antarctica

Feb 28 Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit

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)

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