Mar 02 Bradman scores 369 in 253 minutes, SA vs Tasmania, 46 fours 4 sixes

Mar 05 The British Spitfire makes it's first flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton)

Mar 06 Belgium ends Locarno-pact

Mar 19 The birth of Ursula Andress, Film actress

Mar 07 Germans march into the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty.

Mar 29 Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates

Mar 04 First flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany

Mar 14 Federal Register, first magazine of the US government, publishes first issue

Mar 07 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland nobody complains

Mar 23 Italy, Austria & Hungary sign Pact of Rome

Mar 26 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, New York-Cal Tech

Mar 26 Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska

Mar 09 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player

Mar 29 10,000 watch the 200" mirror blank passing through Indianapolis

Aug 14 First Olympic basketball game (Berlin)

Aug 03 The U.S. State Department urges Americans living in Spain to leave because of the Spanish civil war.

Aug 12 120ø F (49ø C), Seymour, Texas (state record)

Aug 05 At Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his 3rd Olympic medal

Aug 03 SS Calyx, built at Eems, Germany in 1929 and renamed in 1936, she sank at the entrance to Ipswich dock. Declared a total loss and later broken up at Ipswich.

Aug 24 Australian Antarctic Territory created

Aug 12 Diver Marjorie Gestring is youngest Olympic gold medalist (13y 268d)

Aug 16 11th Olympic games close in Berlin

Aug 09 Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal of Berlin Olympics

Aug 18 106.5ø F-Hottest afternoon ever in Iowa to date

Aug 14 A train and truck collide at Louiseville Quebec, killing 22.

Aug 01 Adolph Hitler opens Berlin Olympic Games

Aug 01 The birth of Yves Saint-Laurent, Designer

Sep 07 Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) begins operation

Sep 02 The first transatlantic round-trip air flight

Sep 07 The birth of Buddy Holly, American rock and roll singer

Sep 29 Radio used for first time for a presidential campaign

Sep 07 Hoover (Boulder) Dam begins operation.

Sep 30 Intl Commission of the Straits (Dardanelles and Bosphorus) ends

Sep 18 On test a new lightweight streamlined passenger train attains an officially recorded speed of 112 1/2 mph on the Canadian Pacific Winchester Subdivision near St. Telesphore, Quebec, with 4-4-4 locomotive no. 3003.

Sep 11 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam

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