Jan 01 Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto

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

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

Jan 13 Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany

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 09 Bob Denver actor Gillis, Gilligan’s Island was born

Jan 01 Eastern Airlines hires Eddie Rickenbacker as GM

Jan 28 Iceland becomes first country to legalize abortion

Jan 04 Fort Jefferson National Monument, Florida established

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)

Oct 10 George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway

Oct 25 Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie & Jacmel Haiti

Oct 02 Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

Oct 24 Italy invades Ethiopia

Oct 01 The birth of Julie Andrews, English actress/singer; 'Mary Poppins'

Oct 06 Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches

Oct 08 Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie and Harriet)

Oct 07 The birth of Thomas Keneally, Author whose books include 'Schindlers Ark'

Oct 30 The birth of Michael Winner, American director

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