Nov 12 The first TV Gardening show airs

Nov 30 Abbie Hoffman (activist 1960s cultural revolutionary [Yippie]; one of the Chicago Eight) was born

Nov 18 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined

Nov 23 The first issue of LIFE magazine debuted. It was an immediate sellout. The cover of that famous magazine showed an obstetrician slapping a baby and the caption read, “LIFE begins”.

Nov 06 RCA displays TV for the press

Nov 30 Abbie Hoffman (activist: 1960s cultural revolutionary [Yippie]; one of the Chicago Eight) was born

Nov 30 London's famed Crystal Palace, constructed for the International Exhibition of 1851, destroyed in a fire.

Nov 12 The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.

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

Jun 12 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1394 Algoa

Jun 22 Harry Froboess dives 110 m from airship into Bodensee &survives

Jun 18 The first bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, WI

Jun 06 Aviation gasoline first produced commercially Paulsboro NJ

Jun 11 Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia

Jun 30 "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, published

Jun 17 Himmler is appointed chief of the German Police.

Jun 02 Gen Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua

Jun 30 40 hour work week law approved (federal)

Jun 14 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1490 Limpopo

Jun 22 Virgin Islands receives a constution from US

Jun 29 Pope Pius XI encyclical to US bishops "On motion pictures"

Jun 20 Jesse Owens of the US sets 100 meter record at 10.2

Jun 26 L Boyer discovers asteroid #2021 Poincare

Dec 01 Lou Rawls (Louis Allen) was born this day

Dec 01 Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use

Dec 10 England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI

Dec 22 The birth of James Burke, British writer

Dec 01 EW Brundin and FF Lyon obtain patent on soilless culture of plants

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