- Jan 6 Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia
Event of Interest
Jan 6 Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest
Mother Teresa
Event of Interest
Jan 7 Croatian nationalist movement, Ustaša founded by Ante Pavelić in exile in Italy
Ante Pavelić
- Jan 7 French inventor Robert Bureau launches the 1st radiosonde - a battery-powered telemetry instrument carried into the atmosphere to measure various parameters and transmit them by radio to a ground receiver
- Jan 8 1st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies
- Jan 8 "Man with a Movie Camera", Soviet experimental documentary film directed by Dziga Vertov, is released
- Jan 9 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA begins radio transmissions
Event of Interest
Jan 10 Elmer Rice's "Street Scene" premieres in NYC
Elmer Rice
- Jan 12 Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana
- Jan 13 Humanist Society established, Hollywood, California
- Jan 14 Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign
- Jan 17 Popeye makes 1st appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theater"
- Jan 18 "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio
- Jan 19 Acadia National Park, Maine established
- Jan 20 1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona"
- Jan 21 Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End" premieres in London
- Jan 26 Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence
- Jan 29 Seeing Eye Guide Dog organization forms in USA
- Jan 31 Erich Maria Remarque publishes "Im Westen nichts Neues" in Berlin
Event of Interest
Jan 31 Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey
Leon Trotsky
- Feb 1 1st clean & jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402½ lbs
- Feb 1 Pi Alphha Phi, the first Asian-American interest fraternity in the United States, is founded at UC Berkeley
- Feb 3 Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam
- Feb 6 Rudy Vallee records single "Deep Night"
- Feb 8 KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions
- Feb 9 USSR, Estonia, Latvia, Poland & Romania sign Litvinov's Pact, providing for renunciation of war among its signatories
- Feb 10 Bishop Stephen Alencastre dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu
Event of Interest
Feb 11 Eugene O'Neill's "Dynamo" premieres in NYC
Eugene O'Neill
- Feb 16 KID-AM in Idaho Falls ID begins radio transmissions
Murder of Interest
Feb 16 In mysterious murder suicide Ned Doheny Jr., son of oil magnate Edward L. Doheny, dies along with secretary Hugh Plunkett at Greystone Mansion, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
Edward L. Doheny
Event of Interest
Feb 26 US President Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park
Calvin Coolidge
President Inaugurated
Mar 4 Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st US President
Herbert Hoover
- Mar 6 Turkey & Bulgaria sign friendship treaty
- Mar 8 US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia
- Mar 9 Marcel Pagnol's "Marius" premieres in Paris
- Mar 16 WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions
- Mar 17 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
- Mar 17 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
- Mar 22 KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions
- Mar 22 US Coast Guard vessel sinks Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor
- Mar 23 1st telephone installed at the President’s desk under the Hoover administration at the White House
- Mar 28 Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador
- Apr 1 Austrian government of Ignaz Seipel falls
- Apr 1 Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven Netherlands opens
- Apr 1 Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo
- Apr 1 Luis Buñuel releases "Un Chien Andalou" 24-minute film
- Apr 1 Morehouse College, Spellman College & Atlanta University affiliate
- Apr 3 Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact
- Apr 3 RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
- Apr 4 1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held
- Apr 5 Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact
Event of Interest
Apr 8 Indian Independence Movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest
Bhagat Singh
- Apr 11 KLO-AM in Ogden UT begins radio transmissions
- Apr 11 Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam
- Apr 16 Cleveland Indian Earl Averill, becomes 1st AL to hit a HR on 1st at bat
- Apr 18 Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire
- Apr 24 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
- Apr 24 Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark
- Apr 26 1st non-stop England to India flight lands
- Apr 30 Ernst Streeruwitz becomes Chancellor of Austria, lasts less than 5 months
- May 1 Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
- May 1 Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin
- May 3 Prussia bans anti-fascists
- May 6 AL announces it will discontinue MVP award
- May 6 New York to San Francisco footrace begins
- May 8 Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway
Contract of Interest
May 8 Soviet government contract Albert Kahn Associates architectural firm to design the USSR's 1st tractor plant
Albert Kahn
Declaration of War
May 19 Chinese warlord Feng Yuxiang declares war on Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist government
Chiang Kai-shek
- May 21 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed in NYC
- May 21 Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son" premieres in Paris
- May 28 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (NYC)
- May 31 Atlantic City Convention Center opens
- Jun 3 1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center (electric light)
- Jun 3 Chile and Peru sign the Treaty of Lima, finally resolving their border dispute from the War of the Pacific (1879–83). Chile keeps Arica and Peru regains Tacna.
- Jun 5 Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour government in Britain
- Jun 7 Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st British female cabinet minister (Labour)
- Jun 7 Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
- Jun 8 Venezuelan rebel Rafael Urbina overthrows Fort Amsterdam, Curacao kidnap governor Fruytier
- Jun 9 Venezuelan rebel Urbina lets Dutch/Curacaose hostages free
- Jun 14 Prussia and Vatican sign Concord
- Jun 15 1st time NY curb stock exchange transacts more business than NY Exch
- Jun 25 US President Herbert Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
- Jun 26 ENKA/Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU (Genl Kunstzijde Union)
- Jun 27 1st color TV demo, performed by Bell Laboratories in NYC
Event of Interest
Jun 27 President Paul von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WWI
Paul von Hindenburg
- Jun 29 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca
- Jun 29 31.1°C (88°F) highest temperature on this day in De Bilt
- Jun 29 Mexico & Vatican sign Concord
- Jul 1 US Immigration law of 1924 in effect
- Jul 3 Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber
- Jul 4 AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down
- Jul 5 WOWO-AM, Indiana returns to air, 1 day after transmitter burns down
- Jul 7 Romania & Vatican sign concord
- Jul 10 US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
- Jul 15 1st airport hotel opens at Oakland, California
- Jul 17 USSR breaks diplomatic relations with China
- Jul 23 The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words
- Jul 24 NY to San Francisco foot race ends (2½ months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde
- Jul 24 US President Herbert Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war
- Jul 27 Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished
Event of Interest
Jul 31 Aristide Briand becomes premier of France for the 6th time
Aristide Briand
- Aug 8 Salem Oregon airport dedicated
- Aug 10 Grover Alexander beats Phils 7-1 for his 373rd & last NL win
- Aug 11 Persia & Iraq sign friendship treaty
- Aug 11 Russian-Chinese border fights
- Aug 14 Jewish Agency for Palestine forms
- Aug 20 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
- Aug 21 Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town
- Aug 23 Arabs attack Jews in Israel
- Aug 24 Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
- Aug 24 Turkey & Persia sign friendship treaty
Event of Interest
Aug 25 Graf Zeppelin passes over San Francisco for Los Angeles after trans-Pacific voyage
Hugo Eckener
- Aug 29 German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight
Event of Interest
Aug 29 Aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh makes her first solo flight
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Event of Interest
Aug 31 Committee chaired by Owen D. Young finalizes the "Young Plan" to reduce German reparations from World War I to 112 billion Gold Marks ($US8 billion) paid over 59 years
Owen D. Young
- Sep 2 Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros
- Sep 3 Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches all time high of 381.17, to be shortly followed by the Crash of 1929.
- Sep 5 French premier Aristide Briand requests a United States of Europe
- Sep 11 SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
- Sep 16 Police shoot at strikers in Maastricht, 2 killed
- Sep 17 British troops begin withdrawal from occupied Germany
- Sep 18 Preston Sturges' "Strictly Dishonorable" premieres in NYC
- Sep 19 Latvia dictator A Woldemaras chased out
- Sep 21 1st legal pass in Canada was thrown by Gerry Seiberling & 1st reception by Ralph Losie of Calgary Altomah-Tigers against Edmonton
Event of Interest
Sep 24 Lt James Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in 1st all-instrument flight
Jimmy Doolittle
- Sep 25 Queen-mother Emma opens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam
- Sep 26 John Schrober becomes chancellor of Austria
- Sep 28 1st CF interception return for a touchdown (Joe Hess-U of Alberta)
- Sep 30 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
- Oct 3 British Labour government recovers diplomatic relations with USSR
Event of Interest
Oct 3 Julius Curtius succeeds Gustav Stresemann as German foreign minister
Gustav Stresemann
- Oct 3 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia
Event of Interest
Oct 7 Ramsay MacDonald is first British Prime Minister to address US Congress
Ramsay MacDonald
Event of Interest
Oct 11 JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
James Cash Penney
- Oct 18 Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law
- Oct 20 Bayshore Highway opens (San Francisco)
- Oct 22 8th French government of Aristide Briand falls
- Oct 22 James H Scullin forms Australia government
Another Panic, Another Market Crash
Oct 24 "Black Thursday", start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%
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- Oct 24 Belgian princess Marie-Jose & Italian crown prince Umberto get engaged, assassination attempt on Umberto fails
Event of Interest
Oct 25 Former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe in the Teapot scandal - 1st US Cabinet member to go to jail
Albert B. Fall
Historic Expedition
Nov 4 Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould and their polar expedition team begin a 2½ month, 1500-mile dog-sledge journey into the Queen Maud Mountains. The first exploration of the interior of Antarctica.
Richard E. Byrd
Event of Interest
Nov 17 Nikolai Bukharin is expelled from the Soviet Politburo amidst a power struggle with Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Event of Interest
Nov 20 Salvador Dali's first one-man show
Salvador Dali
- Nov 28 Richard E. Byrd makes his 1st South Pole flight
- Nov 29 Richard E. Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole" (He was wrong)
- Dec 1 Game of Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe
- Dec 2 First skull of Peking man found in the caves of Zhoukoudian, 50 km outside of Peking, China. Later dated roughly 750,000 years old. [1]
- Dec 5 1st US nudist organization, the American League for Physical Culture in New York City
- Dec 6 Turkey introduces female suffrage
Nobel Prize
Dec 10 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine jointly awarded to Christiaan Eijkman and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins for the discovery of vitamins
Christiaan Eijkman
Event of Interest
Dec 21 Coco the Clown first appears for Bertram Mills Circus in Manchester, England
Coco the Clown
- Dec 25 Grimmett takes 6-146 for SA, Queensland all out 380 Crowd 5,390
- Dec 30 Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates
