Jun 04 The S.S. St. Louis, carrying 900+ Jewish refugees from Germany, is turned away from the Florida coast. In a great tragedy, the ship is also denied permission to dock in Cuba and eventually returns to Europe. Many of the refugees later die in Nazi concentration camps.

Jun 21 Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Jun 12 The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. is dedicated.

Jun 11 King & Queen of England taste first "hot dogs" at FDR's party

Jun 01 British sub "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard

Jun 28 Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service (Dixie Clipper)

Dec 05 A Sunderland aircraft of 10 Squadron RAAF, part of the RAF Coastal Command, flies on the first official RAAF operation of World War Two

Dec 11 Douglas Fairbanks Snr., star of stage and screen, dies

Dec 15 In Seaford, Delaware, Nylon commercially produced for the first time

Dec 01 Lee Trevino golfer was born this day

Dec 18 Thousands watched from the shore as the German Pocket Battleship, Graf Spee is scuttled by her crew.

Dec 11 Betty Grable and her famous legs were featured on the cover of LIFE magazine

Dec 15 The commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware

Dec 02 British Imperial Airways and British Airways merge to form BOAC

Dec 22 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany; 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany

Dec 25 Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer

Dec 14 League of Nations drops the Soviet Union

Dec 15 World premiere of "Gone With The Wind" in Atlanta GA

Dec 27 Between 20,000 & 40,000 die in magnitude 8 quake (Erzincam Turkey)

Dec 17 The first elements of the first Canadian Dvision arrive in Britian

Dec 20 Radio Australia begins overseas short-wave service

Dec 17 German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay

Dec 15 The world premiere of the movie Gone With the Wind is held in Atlanta, GA.

Dec 02 New York's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago lands, 1 minute after midnight

Dec 27 First American skimobiles (North Conway, NH)

Aug 13 Sabotage suspected in crash of the 'City of San Francisco' which fell into the Humboldt River killing 24. (Elko, Nevada)

Aug 27 Erich Warsitz makes first jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178)

Aug 24 Germany & USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact

Aug 24 Last man hanged in New South Wales: axe murderer John Trevor Kelly.

Aug 24 Last man hanged in New South Wales axe murderer John Trevor Kelly.

Aug 02 Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers

Aug 01 Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers

Aug 23 USSR & Germany sign a non-agression pact

Aug 29 Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II

Aug 12 The birth of George Hamilton, American film actor

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