Jan 09 The first issue of Look magazine appears on news stands today.

Jan 25 Soap Opera "Guiding Light" premieres on NBC radio

Jan 05 Fingleton & Bradman make record stand of 346 for 6th wicket

Jan 01 US Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio

Jan 01 US Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio

Jan 08 Shirley Bassey, singer: James Bond themes: Goldfinger, Diamond’s Are Forever was born

Jan 30 The birth of Vanessa Redgrave, Stage and screen actress

Jan 09 Italian regime bans marriages between Italians & Abyssinians

Jan 06 Bradman scores 270 Australia vs England at the MCG, including 110 singles

Jan 23 Karl Radek &16 others go on trial in Stalin's great purge

Jan 12 Plow for laying submarine cable patented

Jan 01 Anastasio Somoza becomes President of Nicaragua

Jan 06 Bradman scores 270 Australia vs England at the MCG, including 110 singles

Jan 08 -50ºF (-45.6ºC), San Jacinto NV (state record)

Feb 25 The birth of Tom Courtenay, Actor

Feb 16 Nylon is patented

Feb 15 The American Elm becomes the state tree of Nebraska.

Feb 05 First Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released

Feb 13 Halifax native Harold Foster 1892-1982 publishes his first Prince Valiant comic strip, calling his original creation 'an illustrated historical novel.

Feb 06 K Elizabeth Ohi becomes first Japanese-US female lawyer

Feb 05 U.S. president Roosevelt proposes increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court.

Feb 16 DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers

Feb 13 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee

Feb 13 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail

Feb 11 General Motors formally recognizes the United Automobile Workers Union, ending a sit-down strike against the auto maker.

Feb 13 US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson

Feb 13 Maribel Vinson wins her 9th US figure skating championship

Feb 13 NFL Boston Redskins move to Washington DC

Feb 13 Bradman scores 123 South Africa vs Queensland, 165 minutes, 10-4 1-6 in cricket

Feb 24 First US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Washington DC

Feb 27 Bradman scores 169 in 5th Test Cricket vs England in 223 minutes

Nov 17 Britain's Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement

Nov 13 NBC forms 1st full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio

Nov 30 Reich court deprives parents of children, because they opposed Nazi Socialist ideology.

Nov 30 Robert Guillaume (Williams) (actor Soap, Benson) was born

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