Date | Event |
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Jan 1 |
1st Sugar Bowl & 1st Orange Bowl |
Jan 1 |
Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto |
Jan 1 |
Eastern Airlines hires Eddie Rickenbacker as GM |
Jan 1 |
Pres Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Ataturk: Father of Turkey" |
Jan 2 |
Bruno R Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap-murder of Lindbergh baby |
Jan 4 |
Bob Hope 1st heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue" |
Jan 4 |
Ft Jefferson National Monument, Fla established |
Jan 7 |
Zoe Akins' "Old Maid," premieres in NYC |
Jan 8 |
Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy |
Jan 11 |
Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu to Oakland Ca (non-stop, of course) |
Jan 13 |
Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany |
Jan 14 |
Iraq-Mediterranean oil pipeline goes into use |
Jan 15 |
300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition |
Jan 15 |
Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty," premieres in NYC |
Jan 19 |
KLM begins flight path between Curacao & Aruba |
Jan 19 |
Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs. |
Jan 21 |
12.0" (30.5 cm) of rain falls, Quinault RS, Wash (state record) |
Jan 21 |
WFI-AM in Philadelphia Penn merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ) |
Jan 21 |
Wilderness Society incorporated in USA |
Jan 24 |
1st canned beer, "Kruger Cream Ale," is sold by American company Kruger Brewing Co. |
Jan 28 |
Iceland becomes 1st western country to legalize abortion |
Jan 30 |
Ezra Pound meets Benito Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos" |
Feb 1 |
1st "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol |
Feb 1 |
James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy |
Feb 2 |
Leonarde Keeler first use of his polygraph machine on criminals later convicted of assault on its findings (Portage Wisc) |
Feb 6 |
"Monopoly" board game goes on sale for 1st time |
Feb 6 |
1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey |
Feb 8 |
1st NFL draft; Jay Berwanger of U Chicago is 1st pick (by Eagles) He never plays in NFL |
Feb 9 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
Feb 9 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee |
Feb 10 |
1st US streamlined electric RR engine begins service |
Feb 10 |
Pennsylvania RR begins passenger service on new electric locomotive |
Feb 11 |
-11°F (-24°C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low) |
Feb 11 |
1st US airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, NY |
Feb 12 |
Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean |
Feb 13 |
1st US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland |
Feb 13 |
Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap & murder of Lindbergh infant |
Feb 19 |
Clifford Odets' "Awake & Sing," premieres in NYC |
Feb 20 |
Dane Caroline Mikkelson is 1st woman in land on Antarctica |
Feb 22 |
Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House |
Feb 26 |
German Luftwaffe is re-formed under Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering |
Feb 26 |
NY Yankees release Babe Ruth, he signs with Boston Braves |
Feb 26 |
RADAR-Radio Detection & Ranging 1st demonstrated (Robert Watson-Watt) |
Feb 27 |
7th Academy Awards - "It Happened One Night," Clark Gable & Claudette Colbert wins |
Feb 28 |
Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit |
Feb 28 |
Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon polymer |
Mar 3 |
Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms |
Mar 5 |
1st premature baby health law in US (Chicago) |
Mar 6 |
Frank Bartell (Czech), cycles record 80.584 mph in LA |
Mar 7 |
Saar incorporated into Germany |
Mar 9 |
Adolf Hitler announces the creation of a new air force. |
Mar 11 |
Bank of Canada opens |
Mar 11 |
Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe |
Mar 12 |
England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages |
Mar 13 |
Driving tests introduced in Great Britain |
Mar 14 |
36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars |
Mar 15 |
George Headley completes 270 in cricket v England at Kingston |
Mar 16 |
Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty |
Mar 17 |
KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR |
Mar 21 |
Jean Anouilh's "Y avait un presonnier" premieres in Paris |
Mar 21 |
Persia officially renamed Iran |
Mar 22 |
Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (NY) |
Mar 24 |
Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network |
Mar 25 |
1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns |
Mar 26 |
"RvJ" Mitchell & Mjr Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire |
Mar 28 |
Robert Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket |
Mar 30 |
Newfoundland changes time to 3½ hrs W of Greenwich, repeats 44 sec |
Mar 31 |
Fusahige Suzuki runs world record marathon (2:27:49) |
Apr 1 |
1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY |
Apr 2 |
Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer |
Apr 2 |
Sir Robert Watson-Watt patents RADAR |
Apr 3 |
Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44) |
Apr 5 |
Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election |
Apr 6 |
H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses & sinks 371 more |
Apr 8 |
2nd Golf Masters Championship: Gene Sarazen wins, shooting a 282 |
Apr 8 |
Bartoks 5th String quartet premieres in Wash DC |
Apr 8 |
Works Progress Administration approved by Congress |
Apr 9 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Maroons sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 3 games |
Apr 10 |
Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London |
Apr 12 |
Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers |
Apr 12 |
Royal Proclamation sets design of Canada's new Jubilee Silver Dollar |
Apr 12 |
First flight of the Bristol Blenheim. |
Apr 14 |
Black Sunday: The worst sandstorm ravages US midwest (creates the Dust Bowl) |
Apr 16 |
1st radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly" |
Apr 16 |
Babe Ruth's 1st NL game, for Boston Braves, included a HR |
Apr 17 |
Provincial-National elections (Musserts NSB achieves 7.9%/44 chairs) |
Apr 18 |
Gen Sarazen's double eagle on 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters |
Apr 18 |
Netherlands election (Musserts NSB wins 8% of vote) |
Apr 19 |
39th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Mass in 2:32:07.4 |
Apr 20 |
"Your Hit Parade" begins broadcasting (becomes #1 quickly) |
Apr 21 |
King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties |
Apr 23 |
Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted. |
Apr 26 |
Frank Boucher is given NHL's Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship permanently for winning it 7 of 11 years |
Apr 27 |
Brussel's World Expo opens |
Apr 27 |
Yanks pull a 1st inning triple-play & beat Phila A's 9-8 |
Apr 28 |
Moscow underground opens (81 km long) |
Apr 30 |
World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul |
May 1 |
Boulder Dam completed |
May 1 |
Canada's 1st silver dollar is circulated |
May 4 |
61st Kentucky Derby: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:05 |
May 5 |
Jesse Owens of US sets long jump record at 26' 8½" |
May 6 |
British King George & Queen Mary celebrates silver jubilee |
May 6 |
KTM-AM in Los Angeles California changes call letters to KEHE (now KABC) |
May 6 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush) |
May 8 |
Cin Red Ernie Lombardi doubles in 6th, 7th, 8th & 9th beat Phils 15-4 |
May 11 |
61st Preakness: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 1:58.4 |
May 14 |
LA's Griffith Planetarium opens, 3rd in US |
May 14 |
Plebiscite in Philippines ratifies independence agreement |
May 14 |
Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proved to be their last victory for 99 matches, a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win was not until May 29, 1939. |
May 15 |
Pirates beat Phillies 20-5 |
May 15 |
The Moscow Metro is opened to public. |
May 18 |
Harold Gimblett scores 123 in 80 mins on debut for Somerset |
May 19 |
NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936 |
May 23 |
1st scheduled night game postponed due to rain (Cincinnati) |
May 24 |
1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Phil 1) |
May 25 |
Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates |
May 25 |
Track and field athlete Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in 45 minutes at Big Ten meet at Ferry Field in Ann Arbor US |
May 27 |
Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional |
May 29 |
French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage, arrived in NYC on June 3rd |
May 29 |
Hague local museum opens |
May 30 |
Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Kelly Petillo wins in 4:42:22.771 (170.977 km/h) |
May 31 |
Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat |
May 31 |
Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan |
Jun 1 |
Driving test & license plates introduced in England |
Jun 1 |
Yanks set solo HR record with 6 beat Boston 7-2 |
Jun 2 |
Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player |
Jun 3 |
French liner Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours |
Jun 3 |
One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario. |
Jun 8 |
39th US Golf Open: Sam Parks Jr shoots a 299 at Oakmont CC PA |
Jun 8 |
67th Belmont: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:30.6 |
Jun 8 |
Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds & leaves the game |
Jun 9 |
Ho-Umezu Agreement: the Republic of China, under KMT administration, recognizes Japanese occupations in Northeast China. |
Jun 10 |
Dr Robert Smith & William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous |
Jun 11 |
Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey. |
Jun 12 |
Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco (Bolivia vs Paraguay) |
Jun 12 |
Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15½ hours in Senate's longest speech on record (150,000 words) |
Jun 13 |
Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs v Somerset |
Jun 13 |
James J Braddock beats Max Baer in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jun 14 |
Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends |
Jun 16 |
US Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal" |
Jun 23 |
Anthony Eden offers Benito Mussolini a Somalian harbor |
Jun 25 |
Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium |
Jun 26 |
Andrew Sandham's 100th FC hundred, 103 v Hants |
Jun 26 |
Lloyd Waner sets record of 18 putouts in center in doubleheader |
Jun 26 |
SDAP & CPH achieve majority in city council in Amsterdam |
Jun 26 |
Work service for recent graduate obligatory in Germany |
Jun 27 |
Danno O'Mahoney beats Jim Londos in Boston, to become wrestling champ |
Jun 28 |
Earl Averill's consecutive-game streak ends at 673 |
Jun 28 |
FDR orders a federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox, Kentucky |
Jun 28 |
70th British Golf Open: Alf Perry shoots a 283 at Muirfield |
Jun 30 |
Danno O'Mahoney beats Ed George in Boston, to become wrestling champ |
Jun 30 |
The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress. |
Jul 1 |
Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANP, General Ducth Press Agency) forms in Amsterdam |
Jul 2 |
Great Britain boxing team beat US team in 1st international Golden Gloves |
Jul 5 |
1st "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcast |
Jul 5 |
1st time brothers on opposing teams hit HRs, Tony & Al Cuccunello |
Jul 5 |
Chicago Cubs are 10½ games back in NL, & go on to win the pennant |
Jul 5 |
FDR signs National Labor Relations Act |
Jul 5 |
55th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats G von Cramm (6-2 6-4 6-4) |
Jul 6 |
48th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Helen Moody beats H Jacobs (6-3 3-6 7-5) |
Jul 6 |
Rotterdam architect A van de Steurs Museum Boymans opens |
Jul 8 |
3rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-1 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve |
Jul 12 |
Belgium recognizes Soviet Union |
Jul 13 |
Richard Strauss resigns as chairman of Reichskulturkammer |
Jul 13 |
US-Russian commerce treaty takes effect |
Jul 16 |
1st automatic parking meter in US installed (Oklahoma City, Ok) |
Jul 17 |
Variety's famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix" |
Jul 18 |
Amsterdam city council accept city growth plan through the year 2000 |
Jul 20 |
1st broadcast of "Gang Busters" on NBC-radio |
Jul 20 |
Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen. |
Jul 22 |
Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia |
Jul 24 |
1st greetings telegram sent in Britain |
Jul 24 |
The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR. |
Jul 27 |
Floods at Yangtzee Jiang & Hoangh, kills 200,000 |
Jul 28 |
Belgium's Romain Maes wins Tour de France |
Jul 30 |
1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution |
Jul 31 |
3rd Dutch government of Colijn sworn in |
Aug 7 |
60% of voters agrees to nazism in Danzig (Gdansk) |
Aug 11 |
Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews |
Aug 12 |
Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand |
Aug 13 |
Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum) |
Aug 14 |
Social Security Act becomes law |
Aug 20 |
Miltary coup by General Pons & president Ibarra in Ecuador |
Aug 26 |
CCC camp opens in Brecksville Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks |
Aug 29 |
2nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 5, All-Stars 0 (77,450) |
Aug 31 |
1st national skeet championship (Indianapolis) |
Aug 31 |
Chicago White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleve Indians, 5-0 |
Aug 31 |
FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents |
Aug 31 |
Russian Aleksei Stachanov digs 6 hours, 105 tons of cabbages |
Aug 31 |
White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Indians 5-0 |
Sep 2 |
A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423 |
Sep 3 |
1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph) |
Sep 3 |
Andrew Varipapa sets bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games |
Sep 8 |
Willy de Supervise swims runs world record 200 m freestyle (2:25.2) |
Sep 11 |
49th US Womens Tennis: H H Jacobs beats Sarah H Palfrey Fabyan (6-2 6-4) |
Sep 11 |
US captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year |
Sep 12 |
55th US Mens Tennis: Wilmer L Allison beats Sidney B Wood (6-2 6-2 6-3) |
Sep 12 |
Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 352.46 mph |
Sep 13 |
Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the Great Gorge and International Railway. |
Sep 15 |
Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship & makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany |
Sep 17 |
Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina chosen 2nd President of Philippines |
Sep 20 |
Pitts Crawfords beat NY Cubans to win Negro NL Championship, 3-0 |
Sep 22 |
Boston Braves lose NL record 110th game of year en route to 115 |
Sep 24 |
Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi |
Sep 25 |
Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset" premieres in NYC |
Sep 27 |
Chicago Cubs win 21st consecutive game & clinch NL pennant |
Sep 29 |
5th Ryder Cup: US wins, 9-3 at Ridgewood Country Club (Ridgewood, New Jersey, US) |
Sep 30 |
Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" premieres in Boston |
Sep 30 |
The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated by FDR |
Oct 2 |
Mussolini's Italian army attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
Oct 2 |
NY Hayden Planetarium, 4th in US, opens |
Oct 3 |
Italy invades Ethiopia |
Oct 6 |
Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia |
Oct 6 |
Market Street Railway, San Francisco, starts using trackless trolley coaches |
Oct 7 |
Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series |
Oct 7 |
Himmler/Hess/Heydrich inspect the concentration camp at Dachau |
Oct 10 |
Coup under Gen Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy |
Oct 10 |
George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway NY |
Oct 10 |
League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia |
Oct 12 |
Cole Porters musical "Jubilee," premieres in NYC |
Oct 15 |
NHL's St Louis Eagles fold |
Oct 17 |
Pacific Association of AAU votes not to participate in Berlin Olympics |
Oct 19 |
Mao Zedong's army reaches Shanxi |
Oct 20 |
400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid |
Oct 20 |
Anti-fascist People front forms in Brussels |
Oct 20 |
Hank Greenberg is named AL MVP by the BBWAA, Wes Ferrell is runner-up |
Oct 20 |
Communist forces end their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi China bringing Mao Zedong to prominence |
Oct 21 |
Hank Greenberg selected AL MVP unanimously |
Oct 22 |
18th PGA Championship: Johnny Revolta at Twin Hills CC Oklahoma City |
Oct 22 |
Establishment of the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union. |
Oct 23 |
Gabby Hartnett selected NL MVP |
Oct 23 |
Johnny Revolta wins PGA golf tournament |
Oct 23 |
Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre. |
Oct 23 |
Mackenzie King is elected as Prime Minister of Canada for the third time |
Oct 24 |
Italy invades Ethiopia [10/2] |
Oct 24 |
Judge Landis fines ump George Moriarty, Cubs mgr Charlie Grimm & Chic players W English, B Jurges & B Herman for actions in World Series |
Oct 25 |
Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie & Jacmel Haiti |
Oct 27 |
SDAP & NVV launchs "Plan for Work" in Utrect Netherlands |
Oct 28 |
Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End" premieres in NYC |
Nov 1 |
TS Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral" premieres in London |
Nov 3 |
George II returns to Greece & regains monarchy |
Nov 3 |
Kitei Son runs world record marathon (2:26:42) |
Nov 5 |
Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of Maryland to admit Donald Murray, a black man |
Nov 5 |
Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly |
Nov 6 |
1st test flight of Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft |
Nov 7 |
23rd CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Winnipegs defeats Hamilton Tigers, 18-12 |
Nov 9 |
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms |
Nov 11 |
Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over SD |
Nov 12 |
Egas Moniz performs the first modern brain surgery on the frontal lobes to treat mental disorders, at Santa Marta Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal |
Nov 13 |
Anti-British riots in Egypt |
Nov 14 |
FDR proclaims Philippine Islands a free commonwealth |
Nov 14 |
Nazis deprive German Jews of their citizenship |
Nov 15 |
Commonwealth of Philippines inaugurated |
Nov 16 |
Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's musical "Jumbo" premieres in NYC |
Nov 21 |
First commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper) |
Nov 21 |
Jean Giraudoux' "La Guerre de Troie n'Aura" premieres in Paris |
Nov 22 |
China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight |
Nov 24 |
King George II returns to Greece after 12 years |
Nov 24 |
The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress. |
Nov 25 |
International Institute for Social History (IISG) forms in Amsterdam |
Nov 29 |
Michael Savage becomes 1st Labour premier of NZ |
Nov 29 |
Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his famous thought experiment 'Schrödinger's cat', a paradox that illustrates the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics |
Dec 1 |
Austria has world's 1st Day of Postage Stamp |
Dec 4 |
1,200 at St Joseph's College (Phila) enroll in anticommunism class |
Dec 5 |
1st coml hydroponics operation established (Montebello California) |
Dec 5 |
National Council of Negro Women forms by Mary McLeod Bethune (NYC) |
Dec 7 |
CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Ham Tigers, 18-12 at Hamilton |
Dec 8 |
The Japanese military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect Oomoto, beginning with a crackdown on the sect's operational bases of Ayabe and Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture and the arrest of its leader Onisaburo Deguchi. |
Dec 9 |
Walter Liggett American newspaper editor and muckraker killed in gangland murder. |
Dec 10 |
As sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for $150,000 |
Dec 10 |
White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000 |
Dec 14 |
Test Cricket debut of "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith v South Africa, Durban |
Dec 15 |
Detroit Lions win NFL championship |
Dec 15 |
Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Alekhine |
Dec 17 |
First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane. |
Dec 18 |
Bradman scores 117 in his 1st Shield cricket match for South Australia |
Dec 18 |
Edward Benes becomes president of Czechoslovakia |
Dec 18 |
The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon. |
Dec 20 |
Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii |
Dec 22 |
Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura |
Dec 24 |
Bradman scores 233 in 191 mins, SA v Queensland, 28 fours 1 six |
Dec 24 |
National Council of Negro Women forms |
Dec 26 |
Stalin views Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady Macbeth" |
Dec 28 |
W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC |
Dec 28 |
Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union. |
Dec 30 |
Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia |
Dec 31 |
CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party |
Dec 31 |
Charles Darrow patents Monopoly |
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