Jun 23 Marineland opens in Florida-1st aquarium

Jun 14 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin

Jun 19 "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47

Jun 04 Sigmund Freud leaves Austria for refuge in London

Dec 13 Los Angeles freezes at 28ø

Dec 03 AAU's decides to continue linear measuring system over metric

Dec 19 Nazi "Ransom Plan" is rejected here, Joint Distribution Committee's Boycott Council votes for intensification of boycott against German goods. Failure of "Barter Plan" is seen.

Dec 15 Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC

Dec 29 Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle, begins

Dec 01 A fine of One Billion Marks is levied against German Jews for the destruction caused during Kristallnacht.

Dec 30 Electronic television system patented, VK Zworykin

Dec 13 "Aryanization" decree is enacted, all Jewish property is transferred to Aryan possession.

Dec 29 The birth of Jon Voight, American actor

Dec 02 First Harwich-England bound train with 200 German-Jewish orphaned children arrives from Holland. Eventually, 50,000 German Jews find safety in Great Britain.

Dec 01 School bus and train collide in Salt Lake City Utah

Dec 22 Lucien Bouchard, lawyer, politician, born at St-Coeur-de-Marie, Quebec was born

Dec 20 V.K. Zworykin receives patent on the Iconoscope TV system

Aug 07 2 die in a New York subway accident

Aug 26 Montreal Maroons dropped from the NHL

Aug 18 FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US and Canada

Aug 10 Temperatur reaches 119 degrees F in Pendleton, Oregon. - New state record

Aug 25 The birth of Frederick Forsyth, British Author

Aug 29 The birth of Elliot Gould, American actor

Aug 21 The birth of Kenny Rogers, American singer/songwriter

Aug 17 Henry Armstrong won his 3rd concurrent boxing championship

Oct 22 First Xerox copy made

Oct 27 The DuPont company changes the world forever with the introduction of its new synthetic yarn: "nylon."

Oct 01 Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia)

Oct 10 Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland

Oct 31 Orson Wells' radio broadcast of H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" in Mercury Theatre's Halloween treat, tricks thousands.

Oct 27 The DuPont company changes the world forever with the introduction of its new synthetic yarn "nylon."

Oct 07 Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with the letter J

Oct 28 Polish "Aktion." Thousands of Polish Jews are rounded up and sent back to the Polish border town of Zbonzyn. Poland expels all its German Jewish residents.

Oct 22 The birth of Sir Derek Jacobi, British actor

Oct 05 Germans mark all Jews' passports with a large red letter "J" to restrict Jewish immigration to Switzerland, following a request from the Swiss government.

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