Oct 30 Orson Welles stirred nationwide panic with his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax

Jul 30 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1467 Mashona

Jul 20 The birth of Dianna Rigg, English actress

Jul 31 NY Yanks suspend Jake Powell, after he said on Chicago radio he'd "hit every colored person in Chicago over the head with a club"

Jul 06 The "Evian Conference& in France fails to provide a refuge for German Jews.

Jul 02 Helen Wills Moody (US) wins her 8th & final Wimbeldon singles

Jul 04 Suzanne Lenglen 6 time Wimbeldon champ, dies at 39 of anemia

Jul 18 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif

Jul 29 Olympic National Park established

Jul 22 Opening of Australian National War Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, France

Jul 28 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1485 Isa

Jul 20 Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws

Jul 17 Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for LA, wound up in Ireland

Jul 23 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1468 Zomba

Mar 02 Trials of Soviet leaders begins in the Soviet Union

Mar 15 Saudi Arabia began producing oil, a natural resource that would transform a virtual dust bowl of a nation into one so wealthy that King Faisal's main problem was what to do with too much money

Mar 11 Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria

Mar 03 A world record for the indoor mile run was set at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. Glenn Cunningham made the distance in 4 minutes, 4.4 seconds.

Mar 18 President Cardena of Mexico nationalizes US & British oil companies

Mar 16 Noël Coward's musical "Operette", premieres in London

Mar 13 "Anschluss," annexation of Austria to the Third Reich.

Mar 03 American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors)

Mar 11 A world record for the indoor mile run was set at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. Glenn Cunningham made the distance in 4 minutes, 4.4 seconds.

Mar 13 Nazi Germany invade Austria, making it a German Reich province

Mar 02 Landslides &floods cause over 200 deaths (Los Angeles CA)

Mar 17 The birth of Rudolf Nureyev, World renowned Russian ballet dancer

Mar 07 Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of Nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"

Mar 19 Toronto Maple Leafs score 8 goals in 5 minutes

Mar 12 Germans enter Vienna, and 183,000 Jews in Austria fall under Nazi control. Within one month, 500 Jews commit suicide.

Mar 12 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)

Mar 11 German troops enter Austria

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