| January 1 | Jacob Cocey Sr chosen as mayor of Massillon Ohio |
| January 1 | Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt publishes Himmler's wedding laws |
| January 2 | Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri |
| January 4 | Bradman scores 167 for Australia vs. South Africa at the MCG |
| January 4 | British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi and Nehru |
| January 4 | State of siege proclaimed in Honduras |
| January 7 | 1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Michigan |
| January 8 | Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter |
| January 10 | "Mickey Mouse" and "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated |
| January 10 | "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts |
| January 12 | France's Laval government falls |
| January 12 | Hattie W Caraway elected 1st woman senator (D-Ark) |
| January 12 | Philip Barry's "Animal Kingdom," premieres in New York City |
| January 14 | 1st totalisator (to record racetrack bets) in U.S. installed, Hialeah |
| January 14 | Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his 1st race |
| January 19 | Charlie Conacher becomes 1st Toronto Maple Leaf to score 5 goals in a game, 1st coming at 7 seconds of game |
| January 21 | U.S.S.R. and Finland stop non-attack treaty |
| January 22 | British Anglicans and Old-Catholic church merge |
| January 23 | El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers |
| January 25 | 1st commencement exercises at Hebrew U in Jerusalem |
| January 25 | Bradman scores 167 NSW vs. Victoria, 224 minutes, 22 fours |
| January 26 | British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead) |
| January 26 | KUT-AM in Austin Texas changes call letters to KNOW |
| January 28 | 1st U.S. state unemployment insurance act enacted (Wisconsin) |
| January 28 | Japan occupies Shanghai |
| January 29 | Test debut of Bill O'Reilly, vs South Africa at Adelaide |
| January 30 | Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval |
| January 31 | U.S. railway unions accept 10% wage reduction |
| February 1 | Bradman makes 299* vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th |
| February 2 | Al Capone sent to prison |
| February 2 | Geneva disarmament conference begins with 60 countries |
| February 2 | Grimmett takes 14 wickets vs. South Africa (7-116 and 7-83) |
| February 2 | Reconstruction Finance Corp organized |
| February 4 | 3rd Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, New York |
| February 4 | Japanese troop occupy Harbin, Manchuria |
| February 6 | 1st Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, New York (demonstration sport) |
| February 6 | Fascist coup in the Memel territory |
| February 9 | America enter Olympic 2-man bobsled competition for 1st time |
| February 9 | U.S. airship Columbia crashes during storm in Flushing, New York |
| February 11 | 73 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February |
| February 12 | Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees |
| February 13 | "Free Eats" introduces George "Spanky" McFarland to "Our Gang" |
| February 14 | South Africa all out for 36 in 1st innings vs. Australia (Ironmonger 5-6) |
| February 15 | 3rd Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, New York |
| February 15 | Australia beat South Africa in cricket by an inn in 5 hours 53 minutes playing time |
| February 15 | George Burns and Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on "Guy Lombardo Show" |
| February 15 | John Van Druten's "There's Always Juliet," premieres in New York City |
| February 15 | U.S. bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer and Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold) |
| February 16 | 1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree |
| February 17 | Irving Berlin's musical "Face the Music," premieres in New York City |
| February 18 | Japan declares Manchuria Independent |
| February 18 | Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Women's figure skating title |
| February 19 | William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August" |
| February 20 | Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China |
| February 21 | Andre Tardieu becomes premier of France |
| February 21 | Camera exposure meter patented, W. N. Goodwin |
| February 22 | Purple Heart award reinstituted |
| February 24 | Malcolm Campbell drives record speed (253.96 mph) at Daytona |
| February 25 | Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship |
| February 27 | 38 die in coal mine explosion Boissevain, Virginia, USA |
| February 29 | Failed coup attempt by fascist Lapua Movement in Finland |
| March 1 | Charles Lindbergh, Jr. (20 months), kidnapped in New Jersey |
| March 7 | Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn Michigan, kills 4 |
| March 9 | Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland |
| March 9 | Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria |
| March 17 | German police raid Hitler's nazi-headquarter |
| March 20 | Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR |
| March 24 | 1st U.S. radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD) |
| March 27 | De Bataven soccer team forms in Gendt |
| March 29 | Jack Benny debuts on radio |
| March 30 | Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic |
| March 31 | 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall |
| March 31 | Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine |
| April 2 | Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son |
| April 4 | George Bernard Shaw's "Too True to be Good," premieres in New York City |
| April 4 | Vitamin C 1st isolated, CC King, University of Pittsburgh |
| April 5 | Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions |
| April 9 | Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs sweep New York Rangers in 3 games |
| April 12 | Emmanuel Chabriers and Balanchines ballet premieres in Monte Carlo |
| April 13 | Kozakken Boys soccer team forms in Werkendam forms |
| April 14 | Bizet, Massine and Miro's "Jeux d'Enfants," premieres in Monte Carlo |
| April 17 | Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ends slavery |
| April 19 | 36th Boston Marathon won by Paul de Bruyn of Germany in 2:33:36.4 |
| April 19 | President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week |
| April 23 | Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon |
| April 24 | German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia) |
| April 25 | Rose Franken's "Another Language," premieres in New York City |
| April 26 | Jean Anouilh's "L'Ermine," premieres in Paris |
| April 28 | 1st broadcast of "One Man's Family" on NBC-radio |
| April 28 | Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced |
| May 1 | 1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo |
| May 2 | Jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network) |
| May 2 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S. Buck (Good Earth) |
| May 4 | Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary |
| May 5 | Japan and China sign a peace treaty |
| May 7 | 58th Kentucky Derby: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 2:05.2 |
| May 9 | 58th Preakness: Eugene James aboard Burgoo King wins in 1:59.8 |
| May 9 | Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity |
| May 9 | WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC |
| May 10 | Government declares "Wilhelmus" Netherlands national anthem |
| May 10 | Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes president of France |
| May 12 | Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, New Jersey |
| May 12 | Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney |
| May 13 | Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitch marries Nina Varsar |
| May 14 | "We Want Beer!" parade in New York |
| May 16 | Yankees 4th straight shutout to equal record set by Cleveland and Boston |
| May 17 | Congress changes name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico" |
| May 20 | Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic |
| May 20 | Engelbert Dollfuss becomes chancellor of Austria |
| May 21 | 1st Curtis Cup: U.S., 5 -3 |
| May 21 | 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart, lands |
| May 26 | Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo |
| May 28 | Dam closed, at current monument (South Seas) |
| May 30 | Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins |
| June 1 | Lunteren soccer team forms in Lunteren |
| June 2 | Franz von Papen "Cabinet of the Baron" premieres |
| June 3 | John McGraw, who came to New York in 1902, resigns as manager of Giants |
| June 3 | Lou Gehrig is 1st to hit 4 consecutive home runs; Yankees beat A's 20-13 |
| June 3 | Von Hindenburg disbands German Parliament |
| June 4 | 64th Belmont: Tom Malley aboard Faireno wins in 2:32.8 |
| June 4 | Edouard Herriot becomes premier of France |
| June 6 | Carlos Davila coup against President Juan Montero of Chile |
| June 6 | Ijsselmeervogels soccer team forms in Spakenburg |
| June 6 | U.S. Federal gas tax enacted |
| June 7 | Pitcher John Quinn, 47, is oldest player to have an extra-base hit (a double) and bat in a run, as the Dodgers beat the Cubs 9-2 |
| June 10 | 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass |
| June 10 | 67th British Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 283 at Prince's England |
| June 13 | Air force's Marmaduke Brutal becomes leader of revolutionary junta |
| June 13 | Great Britain and France sign peace treaty |
| June 14 | German government of von Papen forms |
| June 16 | Germany forbids SA/SS-gang fights |
| June 16 | President Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention |
| June 16 | Sutcliffe and Holmes make 555 opening cricket stand for Yorks vs. Essex |
| June 17 | Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada |
| June 19 | Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China PR |
| June 20 | A's Roger Cramer gets 6 consecutive hits in a game (repeats in 1935) |
| June 21 | Heavyweight Jack Sharkey TKOs Max Schmeling (New York City) |
| June 21 | Jack Sharkey beats Max Schmeling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| June 22 | NL, finally approves players wearing numbers |
| June 23 | Lou Gehrig plays 1,103rd successive game in a New York uniform, equaling Joe Sewell's record with one team (Cleveland) |
| June 24 | Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand |
| June 25 | 36th U.S. Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 286 at Fresh Meadows NY |
| June 25 | Commencement of India's 1st Test cricket, vs. England at Lord's |
| June 29 | U.S.S.R. and China sign no attack treaty |
| July 1 | 45th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (63 61) |
| July 1 | New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated for president at Dem Convention in Chicago |
| July 1 | New York newspaper Evening Standard goes bankrupt |
| July 2 | 52nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Ellsworth Vines beats H Austin (64 62 60) |
| July 2 | Franklin D. Roosevelt makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech |
| July 3 | 1st Sunday game at Fenway Park, Yankees beat Red Sox 13-2 |
| July 3 | John McGraw retires from baseball |
| July 4 | Bradman scores 260, a North American record, vs. Western Ontario |
| July 5 | Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes premier/dictator of Portugal |
| July 6 | 1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents |
| July 6 | Cubs shortstop Bill Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli |
| July 7 | Bradman scores a cricket double century in Montreal |
| July 8 | Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22 |
| July 8 | Herbert Sutcliffe scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire vs. Gloucs |
| July 9 | Washington Redskins, then Boston Braves, forms |
| July 9 | Yankees' Ben Chapman hits 2 inside-the-park home runs, tying record |
| July 10 | Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd 18-17 victory in 18 as his A's beats Indians in longest relief job |
| July 14 | Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders |
| July 15 | President Hoover cuts own salary 15% |
| July 18 | Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands sign Unity treaty |
| July 18 | U.S. and Canada sign a treaty to develop St. Lawrence Seaway |
| July 27 | Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death |
| July 28 | Battle between unemployed war veterans and federal troops, 4 die |
| July 28 | President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment |
| July 30 | 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles |
| July 31 | 27th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (3-2) |
| July 31 | Cleveland Municipal Stadium opens-Philadelphia A's beat Indians 1-0 |
| July 31 | George Washington quarter goes into circulation |
| July 31 | German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%) |
| August 2 | Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chicago Cubs |
| August 13 | Hitler refuses Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor |
| August 13 | Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers and wins game 1-0 in 10 tying |
| August 14 | 10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles closes |
| August 14 | Dodger John Quinn, 49, is oldest pitcher to win a major league game |
| August 14 | Philips makes 1 millionth radio |
| August 18 | Auguste Piccard/Max Cosijns reach 16,201m in a balloon |
| August 18 | Englishman James Mollisson is 1st to fly east to west over Atlantic |
| August 19 | 46th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Carolin A Babcock (62 62) |
| August 21 | Wes Ferrell is 1st to win 20 games in each of his 1st 4 seasons |
| August 22 | BBS begins experimental regular TV broadcasts |
| August 24 | 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart |
| August 25 | Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight |
| August 27 | 200,000 English textile workers strike |
| August 27 | International anti-war congress opens in Amsterdam |
| August 29 | International Anti-War Committee forms in Amsterdam |
| August 29 | United Cigar Stores shuts 800 shops |
| August 30 | Hermann Goering elected chairman (Reichstag) |
| September 1 | New York City Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges) |
| September 3 | Ellsworth Vines beats Henri Cochet for U.S. Tennis title |
| September 3 | Jimmie Foxx of A's hits 50th and 51st home runs to become 3rd to hit 50 |
| September 4 | 15th PGA Championship: Olin Dutra at Keller Golf Club St. Paul, Minnesota |
| September 7 | Earl Grace, ends NL catcher record streak of 110 cons errorless games |
| September 9 | Frank Crosetti ties record, striking out twice in 1 inning |
| September 9 | Mine strikes at Belgian Borinage ended |
| September 9 | Spanish Cortes grants Catalonia autonomy |
| September 9 | Steamboat SS Observation explodes in New York City East River (71 killed) |
| September 10 | 52nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Henry E Vines beats Henri Cochet (64 64 64) |
| September 10 | Dodgers Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit home run of the season |
| September 10 | Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in New York City |
| September 12 | Bkln Dodger Johnny Frederick hits his record 6th pinch hit home run |
| September 12 | German government of Papen falls/Reichstag dissolved |
| September 13 | New York Yankees clinch their 7th AL pennant |
| September 14 | Military coup in Chile under Arturo Alessandri |
| September 16 | 30.8 cm rainfall at Westerly, Rhode Island (state record) |
| September 20 | Chicago Cubs clinch the NL pennant |
| September 20 | Dutch South Seas rebaptized in IJsselmeer |
| September 20 | Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables |
| September 22 | Hungarian government of Karolyi falls |
| September 23 | Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd merge into Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
| September 24 | New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt visits LA |
| September 25 | Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th home run in last game of season |
| September 28 | New York Yankees win World Series The winning pitcher is Babe Ruth beating Red Sox 9-3 |
| September 29 | "Bill of Divorcement" premieres at the Mayfair |
| October 1 | NHL readmits Ottawa and drops Pittsburgh |
| October 1 | Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists |
| October 1 | World Series moves to Chicago, In 5th inning, Babe Ruth waits until he has 2 strikes, points and hits next pitch into center field bleachers |
| October 2 | New York Yankees sweep Chicago Cubs in 29th World Series |
| October 2 | Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play 1st NFL game, lose 14-0 |
| October 3 | Iraq gains full independence from Britain, joins League of Nations |
| October 4 | Anti-semite Julius Gombos forms new government in Hungary |
| October 4 | Clark Griffith announces Walter Johnson will be manager of Senators |
| October 4 | Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov marries Yelena Sergeyevna |
| October 10 | "Betty and Bob" premieres on radio |
| October 10 | Dnjepr Dam in U.S.S.R. put into operation (world's biggest) |
| October 11 | 1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, New York City |
| October 11 | Stalin forces Zinoviev and Kamenev out of Communist Party |
| October 18 | Belgium government of Renkin falls |
| October 19 | Austria forbids demonstration by Nazi's and anti fascists |
| October 19 | British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union |
| October 19 | Henry Ford gives his 1st radio speech |
| October 19 | Jimmie Foxx wins AL MVP and Chuck Klein wins NL MVP |
| October 20 | Journalist, Robert Trout, joins CBS |
| October 22 | Charles de Broqueville becomes premier of Belgium |
| October 22 | George Kaufman and Edna Ferbers "Dinner at 8," premieres in New York City |
| October 23 | "Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio |
| October 23 | Pieter G. Marais, South Africa minister of Education/Development aid |
| October 24 | British government signs trade treaty with U.S.S.R. |
| October 25 | Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Company consultant |
| October 25 | Mussolini promises to remain dictator for 30 years |
| October 29 | French liner Normandie is launched |
| October 31 | Greek government of Venizelos falls |
| November 1 | Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program |
| November 5 | Mussolini frees 16,000 criminals |
| November 6 | German election - KPD defeats NSDAP |
| November 7 | 1st broadcast of "Buck Rogers in the 25th century" on CBS-radio |
| November 7 | Bradman scores 238 NSW vs. Victoria, 200 minutes, 32 fours |
| November 8 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd president for 1st time |
| November 8 | "Make Mine Music," debuts |
| November 9 | Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500 |
| November 12 | 24 killed at Lancashire mine explosion |
| November 15 | Walt Disney Art School created |
| November 17 | German government of von Papen, resigns |
| November 18 | 1st tie for Best Actor Academy Award Wallace Beery and Fredric March |
| November 18 | "Flowers and Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon |
| November 19 | Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game |
| November 19 | Shaft and Thyssen demand Hitler become German chancellor |
| November 20 | Earthquake at Uden Netherlands |
| November 22 | Pump patented that computes quantity and price delivered |
| November 26 | Bradman completes 10000 runs in first-class cricket, 126 innings |
| November 27 | Poland and U.S.S.R. signs non-attack treaty |
| November 28 | France and U.S.S.R. signs not-attack treaty |
| November 28 | Groucho Marx performed on radio for 1st time |
| November 29 | Cole Porters musical "Gay Divorcee," premieres in New York City |
| November 29 | France signs non-agression pact with Soviet Union |
| November 29 | U.S.S.R. and France sign no attack treaty |
| December 2 | "Adv of Charlie Chan" 1st heard on NBC-Blue radio network |
| December 3 | 20th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 25-6 |
| December 3 | General Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany |
| December 5 | German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa |
| December 7 | 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY |
| December 10 | King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution |
| December 11 | SF's coldest day (27 degrees F) - it snows |
| December 12 | S N Behrmans "Biography," premieres in New York City |
| December 12 | U.S.S.R. and China resume diplomatic relations |
| December 14 | French government of Herriot falls |
| December 16 | Heavy earthquake ravages Kansu China, 70,000 killed |
| December 17 | Cards trade Jim Bottomley to Reds for Estel Crabtree and Ownie Carroll |
| December 18 | Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game |
| December 19 | British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas |
| December 20 | Queensland all out 74 vs. Victoria, Ironmonger (age 50) 7-13 |
| December 21 | Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio) |
| December 21 | Giants sign former outfielder Billy Southworth as a coach |
| December 24 | Arturo Alessandri wins presidental election in Chile |
| December 25 | During King George V Christmas dinner speech, his chair collapes |
| December 26 | Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu China |
| December 27 | Radio City Music Hall opens (New York City) |
| December 30 | Bradman out for a duck vs. England at cricket MCG |
| December 31 | John P O'Brien sworn-in as mayor of New York City |
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