Notable Historical Events - 1932
1932 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Jacob Cocey Sr chosen as mayor of Massillon Ohio |
Jan 1 |
Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt publishes Himmler's wedding laws |
Jan 1 |
The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth. |
Jan 2 |
Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri |
Jan 3 |
Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop revolt by banana workers fired by United Fruit. |
Jan 4 |
Bradman scores 167 for Australia v South Africa at the MCG |
Jan 4 |
British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi & Nehru |
Jan 4 |
State of siege proclaimed in Honduras |
Jan 7 |
1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Mich |
Jan 8 |
Ratification of present SF City Charter |
Jan 10 |
"Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated |
Jan 10 |
"Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts |
Jan 12 |
France's Laval government falls |
Jan 12 |
Hattie W Caraway elected 1st woman senator (D-Ark) |
Jan 12 |
Philip Barry's "Animal Kingdom," premieres in NYC |
Jan 14 |
1st totalisator (to record racetrack bets) in US installed, Hialeah |
Jan 14 |
Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his 1st race |
Jan 19 |
Charlie Conacher becomes 1st Toronto Maple Leaf to score 5 goals in a game, 1st coming at 7 seconds of game |
Jan 21 |
USSR & Finland stop non-attack treaty |
Jan 23 |
El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers |
Jan 25 |
1st commencement exercises at Hebrew U in Jerusalem |
Jan 25 |
Bradman scores 167 NSW v Victoria, 224 mins, 22 fours |
Jan 26 |
British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead) |
Jan 26 |
KUT-AM in Austin Texas changes call letters to KNOW |
Jan 28 |
1st US state unemployment insurance act enacted (Wisconsin) |
Jan 28 |
Japanese forces attack Shanghai. |
Jan 29 |
Test debut of Bill O'Reilly, vs South Africa at Adelaide |
Jan 30 |
Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval |
Jan 31 |
US railway unions accept 10% wage reduction |
Feb 1 |
Bradman makes 299* vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th |
Feb 2 |
Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta, Georgia) |
Feb 2 |
Geneva disarmament conference begins with 60 countries |
Feb 2 |
Grimmett takes 14 wickets v South Africa (7-116 & 7-83) |
Feb 2 |
Reconstruction Finance Corp organized |
Feb 4 |
3rd Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY |
Feb 4 |
Japanese troops occupy Harbin, Manchuria |
Feb 6 |
1st Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, NY (demonstration sport) |
Feb 6 |
Fascist coup in the Memel territory |
Feb 9 |
America enter Olympic 2-man bobsled competition for 1st time |
Feb 9 |
US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing, NY) |
Feb 11 |
73°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February |
Feb 12 |
Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees |
Feb 13 |
"Free Eats" introduces George "Spanky" McFarland to "Our Gang" |
Feb 14 |
South Africa all out for 36 in 1st innings v Aust (Ironmonger 5-6) |
Feb 15 |
3rd Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, NY |
Feb 15 |
Aust beat South Africa in cricket by an inn in 5 hrs 53 min playing time |
Feb 15 |
George Burns & Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on "Guy Lombardo Show" |
Feb 15 |
John Van Druten's "There's Always Juliet," premieres in NYC |
Feb 15 |
US bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer & Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold) |
Feb 16 |
1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree |
Feb 17 |
Irving Berlin's musical "Face the Music," premieres in NYC |
Feb 18 |
Japan declares Manchuria independent |
Feb 18 |
Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Women's figure skating title |
Feb 19 |
William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August" |
Feb 20 |
Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China |
Feb 21 |
Andre Tardieu becomes premier of France |
Feb 21 |
Camera exposure meter patented, WN Goodwin |
Feb 22 |
Purple Heart award reinstituted |
Feb 24 |
Malcolm Campbell drives record speed (253.96 mph) at Daytona |
Feb 25 |
Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship |
Feb 27 |
Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead) |
Feb 29 |
Failed coup attempt by fascist Lapua Movement in Finland |
Feb 29 |
TIME magazine features eccentric American politician William "Alfalfa" Murray on its cover after Murray stated his intention to run for President of the United States. |
Mar 1 |
Charles Lindbergh Jr (20 months), kidnapped in NJ; found dead May 12 |
Mar 1 |
12 pro-independence revolutionaries captured in and around Chittagong in Bengal province, British India are sentenced to deportation for life, two to three-year prison terms with the remaining 32 being acquitted. |
Mar 1 |
The 20 month old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh is kidnapped from their home in East Amwell, New Jersey in what became known as the "Lindbergh kidnapping" |
Mar 7 |
Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn Michigan, kills 4 |
Mar 9 |
Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland |
Mar 9 |
Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria |
Mar 17 |
German police raid Hitler's Nazi headquarter |
Mar 19 |
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened. |
Mar 20 |
Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR |
Mar 24 |
1st US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD) |
Mar 27 |
De Bataven soccer team forms in Gendt |
Mar 29 |
Jack Benny debuts on radio, on Ed Sullivan's New York interview program |
Mar 31 |
150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall |
Mar 31 |
Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine |
Apr 2 |
Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son |
Apr 4 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Too True to be Good" premieres in NYC |
Apr 4 |
Vitamin C 1st isolated, CC King, Univ of Pittsburgh |
Apr 5 |
Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions |
Apr 5 |
Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government. |
Apr 9 |
Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs sweep NY Rangers in 3 games |
Apr 10 |
Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German president (Hitler is 2nd) |
Apr 12 |
Emmanuel Chabriers & Balanchines ballet premieres in Monte Carlo |
Apr 13 |
Kozakken Boys soccer team forms in Werkendam forms |
Apr 14 |
Bizet, Massine & Mira's "Jeux d'Enfants" premieres in Monte Carlo |
Apr 17 |
Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ends slavery |
Apr 19 |
36th Boston Marathon won by Paul de Bruyn of Germany in 2:33:36.4 |
Apr 19 |
President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week |
Apr 19 |
Bonnie Parker is captured in a failed hardware store burglary, and subsequently jailed. A grand jury fails to indict her, however, and she is released a few months later |
Apr 23 |
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon |
Apr 23 |
The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, the Netherlands burns down. |
Apr 24 |
German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia) |
Apr 25 |
Rose Franken's "Another Language" premieres in NYC |
Apr 26 |
Jean Anouilh's "L'Ermine" premieres in Paris |
Apr 28 |
1st broadcast of "One Man's Family" on NBC-radio |
Apr 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 3 |
24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switz) |
May 4 |
Al Capone enters Atlanta Penitentiary convicted of income tax evasion |
May 5 |
Japan & 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, London first lit by electricity |
May 9 |
WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC |
May 10 |
Government declares "Wilhelmus" as the 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, NJ |
May 14 |
"We Want Beer!" parade in NY |
May 15 |
The 15th May Incident: in an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed. |
May 16 |
Yanks 4th straight shutout to equal record set by Cleveland & Boston |
May 17 |
US 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: US wins, 5½-3½ at Wentworth Club (Wentworth, England) |
May 21 |
1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands in Ireland |
May 23 |
Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hr record of 860 mi, 367 yds |
May 25 |
Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney |
May 26 |
Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo |
May 28 |
Dam closed, at current monument (South Seas) |
May 29 |
The Bonus Army of World War I veterans begins to assemble in Washington, DC in to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945. |
May 30 |
Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Fred Frame wins in 4:48:03.761 (167.604 km/h) |
Jun 1 |
Lunteren soccer team forms in Lunteren |
Jun 2 |
German Chancellor Franz von Papen forms his "Cabinet of the Barons" |
Jun 3 |
John McGraw, who came to NY in 1902, resigns as manager of Giants |
Jun 3 |
Lou Gehrig is 1st to hit 4 consecutive HRs; Yanks beat A's 20-13 |
Jun 3 |
Paul Von Hindenburg disbands German Parliament |
Jun 4 |
64th Belmont: Tom Malley aboard Faireno wins in 2:32.8 |
Jun 4 |
Edouard Herriot becomes premier of France |
Jun 6 |
Carlos Davila coup against pres Juan Montero of Chile |
Jun 6 |
Ijsselmeervogels soccer team forms in Spakenburg |
Jun 6 |
US Federal gas tax enacted |
Jun 6 |
The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold. |
Jun 7 |
Pitcher John Quinn, 47, is oldest player to have an extra-base hit (a double) & bat in a run, as the Dodgers beat the Cubs 9-2 |
Jun 10 |
1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass |
Jun 10 |
67th British Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 283 at Prince's England |
Jun 13 |
Air force's Marmaduke Brutal becomes leader of revolutionary junta |
Jun 13 |
Great Britain & France sign peace treaty |
Jun 14 |
German government of von Papen forms |
Jun 16 |
Germany forbids SA/SS-gang fights |
Jun 16 |
President Hoover & VP Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention |
Jun 16 |
Sutcliffe & Holmes make 555 opening cricket stand for Yorks v Essex |
Jun 17 |
Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada |
Jun 17 |
Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits. |
Jun 19 |
1st concert given in SF's Stern Grove |
Jun 19 |
Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China |
Jun 20 |
A's Roger Cramer gets 6 consecutive hits in a game (repeats in 1935) |
Jun 21 |
Heavyweight Jack Sharkey TKOs Max Schmeling (NYC) |
Jun 21 |
Jack Sharkey beats Max Schmeling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jun 22 |
NL finally approves players wearing numbers |
Jun 23 |
Lou Gehrig plays 1,103rd successive game in a NY uniform, equaling Joe Sewell's record with one team (Cleveland) |
Jun 24 |
Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand |
Jun 25 |
36th US Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 286 at Fresh Meadows NY |
Jun 25 |
Commencement of India's 1st cricket Test v England at Lord's |
Jun 29 |
USSR & China sign non-aggression treaty |
Jul 1 |
45th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (6-3 6-1) |
Jul 1 |
NY Gov FDR nominated for president at Dem Convention in Chicago |
Jul 1 |
NY newspaper Evening Standard goes bankrupt |
Jul 2 |
52nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Ellsworth Vines beats H Austin (6-4 6-2 6-0) |
Jul 2 |
FDR makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech |
Jul 3 |
1st Sunday game at Fenway Park, Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2 |
Jul 3 |
John McGraw retires from baseball |
Jul 4 |
Bradman scores 260, a North American record, v Western Ontario |
Jul 5 |
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes premier/dictator of Portugal |
Jul 6 |
1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents |
Jul 6 |
Cubs shortstop Bill Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli |
Jul 7 |
Bradman scores a cricket double century in Montreal |
Jul 8 |
Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22 |
Jul 8 |
Herbert Sutcliffe scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire v Gloucs |
Jul 9 |
Washington Redskins (then Boston Braves) forms |
Jul 9 |
Yanks' Ben Chapman hits 2 inside-the-park HRs, tying record |
Jul 9 |
The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution |
Jul 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 |
Jul 12 |
Hedley Verity establishes a first-class cricket record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm |
Jul 14 |
Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders |
Jul 15 |
President Hoover cuts own salary 15% |
Jul 18 |
Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign Unity treaty |
Jul 18 |
US & Canada sign a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway |
Jul 20 |
In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the White House. |
Jul 27 |
Paul Gorgoulov, assassin of French president Doumer, sentenced to death |
Jul 28 |
Battle between unemployed war veterans & federal troops, 4 die |
Jul 28 |
President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment |
Jul 29 |
Great Depression: in Washington, DC, U.S. troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans. |
Jul 30 |
10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles |
Jul 31 |
27th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Paris (3-2) |
Jul 31 |
Cleveland Municipal Stadium opens-Phila A's beat Indians 1-0 |
Jul 31 |
George Washington quarter goes into circulation |
Jul 31 |
German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%) |
Aug 2 |
Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chicago Cubs |
Aug 2 |
The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson. |
Aug 2 |
Carl David Anderson discovers and photographs a positron (positive electron), the first known antiparticle |
Aug 5 |
Clyde Barrow and two associates kill Sheriff C.G. Maxwell and his deputy, Eugene C. Moore, the first time the Barrow gang killed a lawman |
Aug 10 |
A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri. |
Aug 13 |
Hitler refuses President Von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor of Germany |
Aug 13 |
Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing homers & wins game 1-0 in 10 tying |
Aug 14 |
10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles closes |
Aug 14 |
Dodger John Quinn, 49, is oldest pitcher to win a major league game |
Aug 14 |
Philips makes 1 millionth radio |
Aug 18 |
Auguste Piccard/Max Cosijns reach 16,201m in a balloon |
Aug 18 |
Englishman James Mollisson is 1st to fly east to west over Atlantic |
Aug 19 |
46th US Women's Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Carolin A Babcock (6-2 6-2) |
Aug 21 |
Wes Ferrell is 1st to win 20 games in each of his 1st 4 seasons |
Aug 22 |
BBC begins experimental regular TV broadcasts |
Aug 24 |
1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart |
Aug 25 |
Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight |
Aug 27 |
200,000 English textile workers strike |
Aug 27 |
International anti-war congress opens in Amsterdam |
Aug 29 |
International Anti-War Committee forms in Amsterdam |
Aug 29 |
United Cigar Stores shuts 800 shops |
Aug 30 |
Hermann Goering elected chairman of the Reichstag |
Sep 1 |
NYC Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges) |
Sep 3 |
Ellsworth Vines beats Henri Cochet for US Tennis title |
Sep 3 |
Jimmie Foxx of A's hits 50th & 51st HRs to become 3rd to hit 50 |
Sep 4 |
15th PGA Championship: Olin Dutra at Keller GC St Paul Minn |
Sep 5 |
The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger. |
Sep 7 |
Earl Grace, ends NL catcher record streak of 110 cons errorless games |
Sep 9 |
Frank Crosetti ties record, striking out twice in 1 inning |
Sep 9 |
Mine strikes at Belgian Borinage ended |
Sep 9 |
Spanish Cortes grants Catalonia autonomy |
Sep 9 |
Steamboat SS Observation explodes in NYC East River (71 killed) |
Sep 10 |
52nd US Mens Tennis: Henry E Vines beats Henri Cochet (6-4 6-4 6-4) |
Sep 10 |
Dodgers Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit HR of the season |
Sep 10 |
Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in NYC |
Sep 11 |
Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, are killed in a plane crash when their RWD 6 crashes into the ground during a storm. |
Sep 12 |
Bkln Dodger Johnny Frederick hits his record 6th pinch hit HR |
Sep 12 |
German government of Papen falls/Reichstag dissolved |
Sep 13 |
NY Yankees clinch their 7th AL pennant |
Sep 14 |
Military coup in Chile under Arturo Alessandri |
Sep 16 |
30.8 cm rainfall at Westerly, Rhode Island (state record) |
Sep 18 |
Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" in the Hollywood sign. |
Sep 20 |
Chicago Cubs clinch the NL pennant |
Sep 20 |
Dutch South Seas rebaptized in IJsselmeer |
Sep 20 |
Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables |
Sep 22 |
Hungarian government of Károlyi falls |
Sep 23 |
Kingdom of Hejaz & Nejd merge into Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
Sep 24 |
NY Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt visits LA |
Sep 25 |
Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th HR in last game of season |
Sep 28 |
1932 Baseball World Series opens with the Chicago Cubs vs. NY Yankees (6-12) |
Sep 29 |
"Bill of Divorcement" premieres at the Mayfair |
Oct 1 |
NHL readmits Ottawa & drops Pittsburgh |
Oct 1 |
Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists |
Oct 1 |
World Series moves to Chicago, In 5th inning, Babe Ruth waits until he has 2 strikes, points & hits next pitch into center field bleachers |
Oct 2 |
NY Yankees sweep Chicago Cubs in 29th World Series |
Oct 2 |
Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play 1st NFL game, lose 14-0 |
Oct 3 |
Iraq gains full independence from Britain, joins League of Nations |
Oct 4 |
Anti-semite Julius Gombos forms new government in Hungary |
Oct 4 |
Clark Griffith announces Walter Johnson will be manager of Senators |
Oct 8 |
The Indian Air Force is established. |
Oct 10 |
"Betty & Bob" premieres on radio |
Oct 10 |
Dnjepr Dam in USSR put into operation (world's biggest) |
Oct 11 |
1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, NYC |
Oct 11 |
Stalin forces Zinoviev & Kamenev out of Communist Party |
Oct 15 |
Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight. |
Oct 18 |
Belgium government of Renkin falls |
Oct 19 |
Austria forbids demonstration by nazi's & anti fascists |
Oct 19 |
British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union |
Oct 19 |
Henry Ford gives his 1st radio speech |
Oct 19 |
Jimmie Foxx wins AL MVP & Chuck Klein wins NL MVP |
Oct 20 |
Journalist Robert Trout joins CBS |
Oct 22 |
Charles de Broqueville becomes premier of Belgium |
Oct 22 |
George Kaufman & Edna Ferbers "Dinner at 8" premieres in NYC |
Oct 23 |
"Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio |
Oct 23 |
Pieter G Marais, S Afr minister of Education/Development aid |
Oct 24 |
British government signs trade treaty with USSR |
Oct 25 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Company consultant |
Oct 25 |
Benito Mussolini promises to remain dictator for 30 years |
Oct 29 |
French liner Normandie is launched |
Oct 31 |
Greek government of Venizelos falls |
Nov 1 |
Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program |
Nov 5 |
Benito Mussolini frees 16,000 convicts |
Nov 6 |
German election - KPD defeats NSDAP |
Nov 7 |
1st broadcast of "Buck Rogers in the 25th century" on CBS-radio |
Nov 7 |
Bradman scores 238 NSW v Victoria, 200 mins, 32 fours |
Nov 8 |
"Make Mine Music" debuts |
Nov 8 |
Franklin Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd President for 1st time |
Nov 9 |
Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500 |
Nov 9 |
Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60. |
Nov 12 |
24 killed at Lancashire mine explosion |
Nov 15 |
Walt Disney Art School created |
Nov 17 |
German government of von Papen resigns |
Nov 18 |
"Flowers & Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon |
Nov 18 |
1st tie for Best Actor Academy Award Wallace Beery & Fredric March |
Nov 18 |
5th Academy Awards - "Grand Hotel", Fredric March, Wallace Beery & Helen Hayes win |
Nov 19 |
Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game |
Nov 19 |
Shaft & Thyssen demand Hitler become German chancellor |
Nov 20 |
Earthquake at Uden Netherlands |
Nov 22 |
Pump patented that computes quantity & price delivered |
Nov 24 |
In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens. |
Nov 26 |
Bradman completes 10,000 runs in first-class cricket, 126 innings |
Nov 27 |
Poland & USSR sign non-aggression treaty |
Nov 28 |
France & USSR sign not-aggression treaty |
Nov 28 |
Groucho Marx performed on radio for 1st time |
Nov 29 |
Cole Porters musical "Gay Divorcee" premieres in NYC |
Nov 29 |
France signs non-agression pact with Soviet Union |
Nov 29 |
USSR & France sign no attack treaty |
Dec 2 |
"Adventures of Charlie Chan" 1st heard on NBC-Blue radio network |
Dec 3 |
20th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 25-6 |
Dec 3 |
Gen Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany |
Dec 5 |
German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa to enter America |
Dec 7 |
1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY |
Dec 10 |
King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution |
Dec 11 |
SF's coldest day (27°F) - it snows |
Dec 12 |
S N Behrman's "Biography" premieres in NYC |
Dec 12 |
USSR & China resume diplomatic relations |
Dec 14 |
French government of Herriot falls |
Dec 17 |
Cards trade Jim Bottomley to Reds for Estel Crabtree & Ownie Carroll |
Dec 18 |
Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game |
Dec 19 |
British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas |
Dec 20 |
Queensland all out 74 v Victoria, Ironmonger (age 50) 7-13 |
Dec 21 |
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio) |
Dec 21 |
Giants sign former outfielder Billy Southworth as a coach |
Dec 24 |
Arturo Alessandri wins presidental election in Chile |
Dec 25 |
7.6 magnitude earthquake ravages Qansu, China, kills 275 |
Dec 25 |
During King George V's Christmas dinner speech his chair collapes |
Dec 27 |
Radio City Music Hall opens (NYC) |
Dec 30 |
Bradman out for a duck v England at cricket MCG |
Dec 31 |
John P O'Brien sworn-in as mayor of NYC |
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