Aug 26 Pumping to build Treasure Island in SF Bay is finished

Aug 18 Toyota Motor Company founded

Aug 08 The birth of Dustin Hoffman, American actor

Aug 18 The birth of Robert Redford, American actor and director

Aug 08 Berlin 115 demonstrators are arrested. Rev. Martin Niemoller is arrested and charged with having opposed Nazi restrictions.

Aug 08 Berlin: 115 demonstrators are arrested. Rev. Martin Niemoller is arrested and charged with having opposed Nazi restrictions.

Aug 08 Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power

Oct 02 FDR visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State

Oct 15 Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published

Oct 01 Patrol aviation transferred to Aircraft Scouting Force, a reestablished type command. With change five patrol wings were established as separate administrative command over their squadrons.

Oct 01 Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Oct 04 The birth of Jackie Collins, Novelist

Jul 05 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1428 Mombasa ֖ Somalia

Jul 20 Guglielmo Marconi dies Mr. Marconi played a major role in the development of early radio. Born in Italy, he studied engineering. Marconi began experimenting with crude radio devices at the age of 20, and he later moved to England, where he won government support for his work.

Jul 15 Buchenwald concentration camp is opened.

Jul 09 The birth of David Hockney, English painter

Jul 22 Senate rejects FDR proposal to enlarge Supreme Court

Jul 02 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1429 Pemba & #1456 Saldanha

Jul 24 Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro

Jul 05 Yellow Grass Saskatchewan, the temperature at Yellow Grass reaches 45C, the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada, 110F+.

Jul 03 The birth of Tom Stoppard, British writer/playwirght

Jul 02 Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean

Jul 29 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1431 Luanda

Jul 05 Joe DiMaggio's first grand slammer

Jul 11 George Gershwin composer (American in Paris), dies at 38

Jul 25 The birth of Colin Renfrew, British archaeologist

Jul 05 117ø F (47ø C), Medicine Lake, Montana (state record)

Jul 07 Japanese & Chinese troops clash, which will become WW II

Jul 15 Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China

Jul 23 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)

Jul 02 Amelia Earhart, the US aviator, disappears somewhere over the Pacific Ocean

Jul 03 Del Mar race track opened in sunny Del Mar, California.

Mar 09 In Western Ohio a 5.4 earthquake, the largest historical earthquake in Ohio occurred

Mar 01 US Steel raises workers' wages to $5 a day

Mar 14 Pope Pius XI publishes anti-Nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge

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