Events in History
- May 1 Empire State Building opens in New York City
- Jun 12 Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition and perjury
- Sep 18 To create a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria, China, a railway explosion is faked by the Japanese
- Oct 18 American gangster Al Capone convicted of tax evasion
- Nov 7 Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Zedong
- Dec 11 Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland (Free State), and Newfoundland (not then part of Canada)
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Boris Yeltsin
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Raúl Castro
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Desmond TutuHistorical Marriages
- Feb 7 American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart (33) weds publisher George Palmer Putnam (43) in Noank, Connecticut
- Jul 4 Irish writer (Ulysses) James Joyce and Nora Barnacle finally marry in London registry office after meeting in 1904.
- Aug 22 FBI agent Melvin Purvis (27) weds childhood sweetheart Marie Rosanne Willcox at St. John's Episcopal Church in Florence, South Carolina
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Bhagat Singh
Ida B. Wells
André Michelin
Alice Mary Robertson
Daniel Williams
Thomas Edison
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