Notable Historical Events - 1936
1936 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
1st newspaper to microfilm its current issues, NY Herald Tribune |
Jan 2 |
1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St Louis, Mo |
Jan 2 |
Bradman scores 357 for SA v Vic, 424 minutes, 40 fours |
Jan 4 |
Billboard magazine publishes its 1st music hit parade |
Jan 4 |
Grimmett becomes world record wicket taker with no 190 v South Africa |
Jan 6 |
Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario) |
Jan 7 |
Tennis champs Helen Moody & Howard Kinsley volley 2,001 times (1h18m) |
Jan 9 |
Noel Coward's "Astonished Heart," premieres in London |
Jan 9 |
Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army |
Jan 11 |
Charles Anderson enters Kentucky House of Representatives |
Jan 14 |
L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America |
Jan 15 |
1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio |
Jan 15 |
Horace Stoneham elected president of NY Giants |
Jan 15 |
Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates |
Jan 16 |
1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah Fla |
Jan 16 |
Screen Actors Guild incorporates with King Vidor as president |
Jan 16 |
Spanish socialists/communists/anarchists form Unidad Popular |
Jan 20 |
Edward VIII succeeds British king George V |
Jan 22 |
French Laval government falls |
Jan 23 |
Catholic People's Party (KVP) of Curacao forms |
Jan 24 |
Benny Goodman & orchestra record "Stompin' at the Savoy" on Victor Records |
Jan 24 |
Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France |
Jan 28 |
Pravda criticizes Sjostakovitsj' "Lady Macbeth" opera |
Jan 29 |
1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson |
Jan 30 |
New owners of Boston Braves ask newspapermen to pick a new nickname |
Jan 30 |
Victoria need 442 to win against NSW, but lose, all out for 415 They pick "The Bees" it doesn't catch on & is scrapped by 1940 season |
Jan 31 |
"Green Hornet" radio show is 1st heard on WXYZ Radio in Detroit |
Feb 4 |
1st radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E) |
Feb 5 |
National Wildlife Federation forms |
Feb 6 |
4th Winter Olympic games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany |
Feb 6 |
Pravda criticizes Shostakovitch' ballet "Clear Brook" |
Feb 7 |
A flag is authorized for Vice President |
Feb 7 |
Felix the Cat, Cartoon Character, by Van Beuren from Otto Messmer |
Feb 8 |
1st NFL draft, Eagles select Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger |
Feb 8 |
1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, Minn |
Feb 8 |
1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers |
Feb 8 |
Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party |
Feb 11 |
Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in SF Bay |
Feb 14 |
National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago |
Feb 14 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
Feb 14 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee |
Feb 15 |
-60°F (-51°C), Parshall, North Dakota (state record) |
Feb 15 |
Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game) |
Feb 15 |
Sonja Henie, Norway, wins 3rd consecutive Olympic figure skating gold |
Feb 16 |
4th Winter Olympic games close at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany |
Feb 16 |
Spanish Frente Popular (People's Front) wins elections |
Feb 17 |
"Phantom" cartoon strip by Lee Falk debuts |
Feb 17 |
-58°F (-50°C), McIntosh, South Dakota (state record) |
Feb 17 |
SN Behrmann's "End of Summer," premieres in NYC |
Feb 17 |
The world's first superhero, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in comics. |
Feb 18 |
NHL record 32 points scored, NY Americans (28) & Mont Maroons (24) |
Feb 19 |
Manuel Azaña becomes Spanish premier |
Feb 22 |
Construction on Ypenburg Neth airport begins |
Feb 23 |
1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, NY |
Feb 26 |
Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen" |
Feb 26 |
Military coup in Japan |
Feb 27 |
Willy den Ouden swims world record 100 m free style (1:04.6) |
Feb 29 |
FDR signs 2nd neutrality act |
Mar 1 |
The Hoover Dam is completed. |
Mar 1 |
A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen's Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union. |
Mar 2 |
Bradman scores 369 in 253 mins, SA v Tasmania, 46 fours 4 sixes |
Mar 3 |
Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test v South Africa |
Mar 4 |
1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany |
Mar 5 |
Spitfire makes its 1st flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton) |
Mar 5 |
8th Academy Awards - "Mutiny on the Bounty," Victor McLaglen & Bette Davis wins |
Mar 6 |
Belgium ends Locarno pact |
Mar 7 |
Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles, sends troops to Rhineland |
Mar 8 |
The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida. |
Mar 9 |
Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player |
Mar 11 |
British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to join growing conflict with Germany. |
Mar 14 |
Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue |
Mar 23 |
Italy, Austria & Hungary sign Pact of Rome |
Mar 23 |
Physician Joseph Hamilton injects a leukemia patient with a sodium radioisotope, the first intravenous injection of a human with a radioisotope |
Mar 24 |
Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 mins & 30 seconds of 6th period Stanley Cup game lasts 9 periods (176 mins), ends 1-0 |
Mar 25 |
200-inch mirror blank leaves for California to be ground |
Mar 25 |
Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in NHL longest game (2h56m30s) |
Mar 26 |
1st parliamentary debate on NZ radio |
Mar 26 |
200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, NY-Cal Tech |
Mar 26 |
Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska |
Mar 27 |
WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air |
Mar 29 |
10,000 watch the 200-inch mirror blank passing through Indianapolis |
Mar 29 |
Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates |
Apr 1 |
Orissa constituted a province of British India |
Apr 1 |
Charles "Lucky" Luciano" is arrested in Arkansas on a criminal warrant from New York |
Apr 3 |
Al Carr KOs Lew Massey on 1 punch, :07 of 1st round |
Apr 3 |
Shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts only 10 seconds |
Apr 5 |
Tupelo Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die |
Apr 6 |
3rd Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 285 |
Apr 6 |
ANP begins telex service in Amsterdam |
Apr 6 |
Tornado, kills 203 & injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia |
Apr 10 |
200" mirror blank arrives in Pasadena |
Apr 11 |
Rodgers & Hart's musical "On Your Toes" premieres in NYC |
Apr 11 |
Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1 |
Apr 13 |
Metaxas proclaims himself dictator of Greece |
Apr 18 |
Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from San Francisco to Honolulu |
Apr 19 |
Anti-Jewish riots break out in Palestine |
Apr 19 |
First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine. |
Apr 20 |
40th Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of RI in 2:33:40.8 |
Apr 20 |
Jews repel an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine |
Apr 23 |
Carl Hubbell's 1st start of season is his 17th straight win |
Apr 26 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 4th Symphony |
Apr 29 |
1st pro baseball game in Japan is played Nagoya defeats Daitokyo, 8-5 |
May 1 |
Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades |
May 1 |
FBI's J. Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis |
May 2 |
"Peter & the Wolf" premieres in Moscow |
May 2 |
62nd Kentucky Derby: Ira Hanford aboard Bold Venture wins in 2:03.6 |
May 2 |
Emperor Haile Selassie & family flee Abyssinia |
May 3 |
French People's Front wins elections |
May 3 |
NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits |
May 4 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn) |
May 5 |
Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip |
May 5 |
Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa |
May 8 |
Jockey Ralph Neves unexpectedly revived after being declared dead after a fall. His wife fainted when he returned to track |
May 9 |
1st KLM airplane to land on Bonaire |
May 9 |
Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia) |
May 10 |
Manuel Azaña elected president of Spain |
May 10 |
Nahas Pasja becomes premier of Egypt |
May 12 |
Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Poisoned Kiss" premieres in London |
May 13 |
Quiroga government takes office in Spain |
May 15 |
Amy Johnson arrives in Croydon England from S Afr in record 4d16h |
May 16 |
1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France |
May 16 |
62nd Preakness: George Woolf aboard Bold Venture wins in 1:59 |
May 21 |
Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals. |
May 22 |
Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland. |
May 24 |
Dutch bishops forbid membership of Nazi party |
May 24 |
Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs); Ben Chapman sets record by reaching 1st 7 times safely, Yanks beat A's 25-2 |
May 25 |
The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins. |
May 26 |
1st government of Zealand in Belgium ends |
May 27 |
RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage |
May 28 |
Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication, in which he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers. |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Louis Meyer wins in 4:35:03.314 (175.530 km/h) |
Jun 1 |
"Lux Radio Theater" moved from NYC to Hollywood |
Jun 1 |
Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in NY |
Jun 2 |
Gen Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua |
Jun 6 |
40th US Golf Open: Tony Manero shoots a 282 at Baltusrol GC NJ |
Jun 6 |
68th Belmont: James Stout aboard Granville wins in 2:30 |
Jun 6 |
Aviation gasoline 1st produced commercially Paulsboro NJ |
Jun 7 |
Yanks beat Indians 5-4 in 16; longest game without a strikeout |
Jun 7 |
Charles "Lucky" Luciano is convicted on 62 counts of compulsory prostitution |
Jun 8 |
1st parking meters are invented |
Jun 9 |
Page Miss Glory (1936), premieres in USA |
Jun 11 |
Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia |
Jun 11 |
International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England. |
Jun 12 |
1st 50 KW US radio station (Pittsburgh Pa) |
Jun 13 |
2nd Belgian government of Van Zealand forms |
Jun 14 |
Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens |
Jun 16 |
Dutch queen Wilhelmina opens the Waal bridge |
Jun 16 |
Pope Pius XI receives Anton Mussert (Dutch Nazi collaborator) |
Jun 18 |
1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, WI |
Jun 18 |
Polish parliament gives pres Ignacy Moscicki dictatorial power |
Jun 19 |
Dutch Premier Colijn denies relation with German call-girl |
Jun 19 |
German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis |
Jun 19 |
Joe McCarthy is named to manage AL All-Stars, rather than high-strung Mickey Cochrane, who is very close to a nervous breakdown |
Jun 20 |
Jesse Owens of US sets 100 meter record at 10.2 |
Jun 22 |
Harry Froboess dives 110 m from airship into Bodensee & survives |
Jun 22 |
Virgin Islands receives a constitution from US (Organic Act) |
Jun 24 |
Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 HRs in 1 inn, Yanks beat Browns 18-4 |
Jun 24 |
Mary McLeod Bethune named director of Negro Affairs in Natl Youth Adm |
Jun 26 |
1st flight of Fw61 helicopter |
Jun 26 |
Everett Marshall beats Ali Baba in Columbus, to become wrestling champ |
Jun 27 |
71st British Golf Open: Alf Padgham shoots a 287 at Royal Liverpool Golf Club |
Jun 28 |
The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China. |
Jun 29 |
Empire State Building broadcasts high definition TV-343 lines |
Jun 29 |
Pope Pius XI encyclical to US bishops "On motion pictures" |
Jun 30 |
40 hour work week law approved for US federal employees |
Jun 30 |
Haile Selassie asks League of Nations for sanctions against Italy |
Jun 30 |
Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" published |
Jul 1 |
AVRO radio broadcast studios in Hilversum opens |
Jul 1 |
Watchfulness Committee forms in Amsterdam |
Jul 3 |
Jahangir Khan kills a sparrow while cricket bowling, Cambridge University v MCC |
Jul 3 |
56th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Fred Perry beats G von Cramm (6-1 6-1 6-0) |
Jul 4 |
49th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Hull Jacobs beats H Sperling (6-2 4-6 7-5) |
Jul 4 |
League of Nations ends sanctions against Italy after Italian takeover of Abyssinia |
Jul 5 |
120°F (49°C), Gannvalley, South Dakota (state record) |
Jul 6 |
114°F (46°C), Moorhead, Minnesota (state record) |
Jul 6 |
121°F (49°C), Steele, North Dakota (state record) |
Jul 6 |
A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet into the River Irwell. |
Jul 7 |
4th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Braves Field, Boston |
Jul 10 |
109°F (43°C) Cumberland & Frederick, Maryland (state record) |
Jul 10 |
110°F (43°C) at Runyon, New Jersey (state record) |
Jul 10 |
111°F (44°C) Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (state record) |
Jul 10 |
112°F (44°C) at Martinsburg, West Virginia (state record) |
Jul 10 |
New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles |
Jul 10 |
Phillies Chuck Klein becomes 4th to hit 4 HRs in a game |
Jul 11 |
Triborough Bridge linking Manhattan, Bronx & Queens opens |
Jul 13 |
112°F (44°C), Mio, Michigan (state record) |
Jul 13 |
114°F (46°C), Wisconsin Dells, Wisc (state record) |
Jul 14 |
1 million demonstrate to support French People's Front government |
Jul 14 |
116°F (47°C), Collegeville, Indiana (state record) |
Jul 15 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber agree to temporarily increase defense budget |
Jul 16 |
1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, NY |
Jul 16 |
NY Giants are 10½ games back in NL, & go on to win pennant |
Jul 17 |
Carl Hubbell begins winning streak, beating Pittsburgh 6-0 |
Jul 17 |
Spanish generals Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola lead a right-wing uprising, starting the Spanish Civil War |
Jul 18 |
Spanish Civil War : General Francisco Franco issues manifesto and leds uprising with army in Morocco |
Jul 18 |
Charles "Lucky" Luciano is sentenced to 30 to 50 years in state prison |
Jul 19 |
Indians' Bob Feller makes his major league debut in relief |
Jul 19 |
Spanish premier Casares Quiroga succeeded by Jose Giral |
Jul 22 |
Phillies John Moore hits 3 consecutive HRs |
Jul 23 |
Anthony M Kennedy, Sacramento CA, Supreme Court Justice |
Jul 24 |
118°F (48°C), Minden, Nebraska (state record) |
Jul 24 |
121°F (49°C), near Alton, Kansas (state record) |
Jul 24 |
Generals Mola & Cabanellas form Spanish anti-government |
Jul 25 |
115 acre Orchard Beach opens in the Bronx |
Jul 26 |
The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War. |
Jul 29 |
RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show & monologue from Tobacco Road & comedy) |
Jul 31 |
Tokyo Japan is awarded the 1940 Olympics (later cancelled) |
Aug 1 |
Adolf Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin |
Aug 1 |
Benjamin E Mays named president of Morehouse College |
Aug 4 |
Ioannis Metaxas names himself dictator of Greece |
Aug 5 |
At Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his 3rd Olympic medal |
Aug 6 |
1st time in 20th century, 1st 2 batters in a game-Roy Johnson & Rabbit Warstler of Boston Bees-lead off with HRs |
Aug 9 |
Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal at Berlin Olympics |
Aug 10 |
114°F (46°C) at Plain Dealing, Louisiana (state record) |
Aug 10 |
120°F (49°C) at Ozark, Arkansas (state record) |
Aug 11 |
Chaing Kai-shek's troops conquers Kanton |
Aug 12 |
120°F (49°C), Seymour, Texas (state record) |
Aug 12 |
Demo baseball game at 1936 Olympics in Berlin, world beats US, 6-5 |
Aug 12 |
Diver Marjorie Gestring is youngest Olympic gold medalist (13y 268d) |
Aug 14 |
1st Olympic basketball game (Berlin) |
Aug 14 |
Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States. |
Aug 16 |
11th Olympic games closes in Berlin |
Aug 18 |
106.5°F-Hottest afternoon ever in Iowa |
Aug 19 |
Trial against Ljev Kamenev & Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow |
Aug 21 |
Red Sox Wes Ferrell, walks off mound when he feels he did no get good feilding, Sox suspend him |
Aug 23 |
17 year old Bob Feller's 1st game, he strikes out 15 St Louis Browns |
Aug 24 |
Australian Antarctic Territory created |
Aug 24 |
FDR gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists & communists |
Aug 25 |
3 Braves hit twice in an inning getting 2 hits each |
Sep 1 |
Middleweight Staff Roth KOs Heinz Lazek |
Sep 2 |
1st transatlantic round-trip air flight |
Sep 3 |
3rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 7, Detroit 7 (76,000) |
Sep 4 |
Franco's troops conquer Irun & Talavera de la Reina, Spain |
Sep 4 |
Largo Caballero becomes Spanish premier |
Sep 5 |
Red Sox turn a triple-play on Yankees |
Sep 7 |
Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) begins operation |
Sep 7 |
The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. |
Sep 8 |
Princess Juliana of The Netherlands & German prince Bernard Lippe-Biesterfeld become engaged |
Sep 9 |
Yankees sweep Indians, NY clinches pennant on earliest date in history |
Sep 11 |
A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game |
Sep 11 |
FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam |
Sep 12 |
50th US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (4-6 6-3 6-2) |
Sep 12 |
56th US Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J Donald Budge (2-6 6-2 8-6 1-6 10-8) |
Sep 13 |
Cleve Bob Feller strikes out then record 17 in a game (vs Phila A's) |
Sep 13 |
Acting on the orders of Louis Buchalter, Murder Inc. killers gun down Joseph Rosen, a Brooklyn candy store owner |
Sep 14 |
Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's NL record of 200 hits for 7 times |
Sep 21 |
Spanish fascist junta names Franco to generalissimo/supreme commander |
Sep 23 |
Giants Carl Hubbell notches his 16th en route to 24 consecutive wins |
Sep 25 |
Joe Medwick sets a still-standing NL record with his 64th double |
Sep 27 |
1st baseman Walter Alston plays in his only major league game |
Sep 27 |
Franco troops conquer Toledo |
Sep 27 |
Netherlands leave Gold Standard/devaluate guilder |
Sep 28 |
Bachelor's Children debuts on CBS radio (at 9:45 am) |
Sep 28 |
Brooklyn & Boston play a penalty free NFL game |
Sep 29 |
Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign |
Sep 30 |
International Commission of Straits (Dardanelles & Bosphorus) ends |
Sep 30 |
Pinewood Studios opens in Buckinghamshire England |
Oct 1 |
Generalissimo Francisco Franco establishes state of Spain |
Oct 2 |
1st alcohol power plant forms, Atchison, Kansas |
Oct 2 |
Amsterdam's Calvinist Churches reject nazism |
Oct 2 |
French franc devalued |
Oct 2 |
NY Yankees score World Series record 18 runs, beating Giants 18-4 |
Oct 2 |
Tony Lazzeri becomes 1st Yank to hit a World Series grand slam |
Oct 3 |
Yanks set new attendance record of 64,842 in 3rd game of World Series |
Oct 4 |
Italian lire devalued |
Oct 4 |
Record 66,669 at Yankee Stadium for 4th game of World Series |
Oct 5 |
The Jarrow March sets off for London. |
Oct 6 |
NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in 33rd World Series |
Oct 7 |
7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel |
Oct 9 |
Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles |
Oct 10 |
Bradman scores 212 in 202 mins in a cricket testimonial game |
Oct 11 |
"Professor Quiz" first radio quiz show premieres |
Oct 13 |
Explosion caused by leaking gas rips out section 12 of Cleve Stadium |
Oct 16 |
Lou Gehrig, is voted AL MVP by BBWAA |
Oct 19 |
HR Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18½ days |
Oct 20 |
Carl Hubbell, 26-6, edges out Dizzy Dean, 24-13, for MVP honors in NL |
Oct 20 |
Spanish government moves to Barcelona |
Oct 22 |
1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii |
Oct 28 |
FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary |
Oct 31 |
The Boy Scouts of the Philippines was formed. |
Nov 1 |
Benito Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an "axis" |
Nov 1 |
Rodeo Cowboy's Association founded |
Nov 2 |
First high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London |
Nov 2 |
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established. |
Nov 3 |
President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R) |
Nov 5 |
French writer Andre Gide criticizes Soviet regime |
Nov 6 |
RCA displays TV for press |
Nov 6 |
Terence Rattigan's "French Without Tears" premieres in London |
Nov 7 |
Battle of Madrid begins |
Nov 9 |
Albanian government of Frasheri falls |
Nov 12 |
1st TV Gardening show |
Nov 12 |
Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill |
Nov 12 |
Oakland Bay Bridge opens |
Nov 12 |
St Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes & William O DeWitt |
Nov 14 |
Bradman scores 192 for S A v Vic before a MCG crowd of 21000 |
Nov 15 |
Nazi-Germany & Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact |
Nov 16 |
German air force begins bombing of Madrid |
Nov 17 |
Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy become overnight success on radio |
Nov 18 |
Germany & Italy recognize Spanish government of Francisco Franco |
Nov 18 |
Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined |
Nov 20 |
Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange is killed by a republican execution squad. |
Nov 22 |
19th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pinehurst CC Pinehurst NC |
Nov 23 |
1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce is published |
Nov 24 |
Noel Coward's "Tonight at 8:30" premieres in NYC |
Nov 24 |
Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, award Nobel Peace Prize |
Nov 25 |
Germany & Japan sign anti-Komintern pact |
Nov 30 |
London's Crystal Palace (built 1851) destroyed by fire |
Dec 1 |
2nd Heisman Trophy Award: Larry Kelley, Yale (E) |
Dec 1 |
Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use |
Dec 1 |
EW Brundin & FF Lyon obtain patent on soilless culture of plants |
Dec 5 |
24th CFL Grey Cup: Sarnia Imperials defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 26-20 |
Dec 5 |
Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR & Kirghiz SSR becomes constituent republics of Soviet Union |
Dec 8 |
Anastasio Somoza elected pres of Nicaragua |
Dec 8 |
NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black & white teachers |
Dec 9 |
AL OKs night baseball for St Louis |
Dec 9 |
Australia all out 58 v England, Bradman out for a duck |
Dec 10 |
Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry |
Dec 10 |
Britain replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI |
Dec 10 |
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Dec 11 |
Edward VIII announces in a radio broadcast that he is abdicating the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson |
Dec 12 |
Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan |
Dec 13 |
Final Boston Redskin NFL game, lose to Packers 21-6, move to Wash DC |
Dec 13 |
Green Bay Packers win NFL championship |
Dec 15 |
KVL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KEEN (now KING) |
Dec 16 |
John Monks/Fred Finklehoff's "Brother Rat" premieres in NYC |
Dec 17 |
Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen & dummy Charlie McCarthy, appear on TV |
Dec 18 |
Queensland cricket all out for 49 v Vic, Fleetwood-Smith 7-17 |
Dec 18 |
Su-Lin, 1st giant panda to come to US from China, arrives in SF |
Dec 21 |
Bradman's 2nd consecutive Test Cricket duck! Australia all out 80 |
Dec 22 |
1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa |
Dec 23 |
Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty |
Dec 24 |
1st radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca |
Dec 25 |
Belgian bishops condemn fascism & communism |
Dec 25 |
Ron Hamence scores 104 for SA v Queensland before 4,865 |
Dec 26 |
Israel Philarmonic Orch forms |
Dec 30 |
United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant |
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