- Sep 4 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph (483 kph), JR Wendell, Glenview, Il
Coup d'état
Sep 4 Coup against Cuban president Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada by Fulgencio Batista
Event of Interest
Sep 8 Second Spanish government of Manuel Azaña forms
Event of Interest
Sep 12 Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives idea of a nuclear chain reaction
- Sep 13 Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first New Zealand female Member of Parliament
- Sep 14 2 billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire
- Sep 21 Trial against Marinus der Lubbe opens
- Sep 25 1st state poorhouse opens in Smyrna, Georgia
- Sep 25 5th "extermination campaign" begins against communists in Nanjing and Jiangxi province, China
- Sep 26 Sidney Kingsley's "Men in White" premieres in NYC
- Sep 30 Berlin/Hart/Heyman/Myers ballet "As Thousands Cheer," premieres in NYC
- Oct 3 Gustave "Staf" de Clerq forms Flemish National Covenant
- Oct 4 Esquire magazine is 1st published
- Oct 8 Coit Tower dedicated in San Francisco as a monument to firefighters
- Oct 8 Martinez Barrios forms new Spanish government
- Oct 10 1st synthetic detergent, "Dreft" by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale
- Oct 12 Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
Event of Interest
Oct 12 Gangster George Francis Barnes, aka Machine Gun Kelly, is sentenced to life imprisonment
Event of Interest
Oct 12 John Dillinger escapes from jail in Allen County, Ohio
Event of Interest
Oct 17 Albert Einstein arrives in US as a refugee from Nazi Germany
- Oct 23 John Dillinger and his gang rob Central National Bank, in Greencastle, Indiana. They take $75, 000.
- Oct 26 French government of Albert Sarraut forms
Event of Interest
Nov 4 Bulgarian communist Georgi Dimitrov defends himself and the ideology of communism against Hermann Goering and his Nazi accusers on charges of setting the Reichstag on fire
- Nov 4 Young Park (1) in the Bronx named in honor of James Young
- Nov 5 Spanish Basques vote for autonomy
Election of Interest
Nov 7 Fiorello La Guardia is elected the 99th Mayor of New York City
- Nov 10 Black Blizzard snowstorm-duststorm rages from SD to Atlantic
- Nov 11 "Great Black Blizzard" 1st of the great dust storms that created the dust bowl rips through South Dakota
- Nov 12 First known photo of so-called Loch Ness monster is taken by Hugh Gray
- Nov 12 Nazis receive 92% of vote in German parliamentary elections
- Nov 13 1st modern sit-down strike by Hormel meat packers in Austin, Minnesota
Event of Interest
Nov 16 Brazilian President Getulio Vargas declares himself dictator
- Nov 16 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR
- Nov 16 Swiss physicist Fritz Zwicky publishes the first evidence for the existence of dark matter in his seminal article "The Redshift of Extragalactic Nebulae" [1]
- Nov 17 United States recognizes Soviet Union, opens trade
- Nov 19 Women allowed to vote in Spain (helps right wing)
- Nov 21 1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service
- Nov 25 1st Soviet liquid fuel rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m)
- Nov 26 Camille Chautemps becomes French premier for the second time
Murder of Interest
Nov 28 A Dallas grand jury delivers a murder indictment against Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow for the January 1933 killing of Tarrant County Deputy Malcolm Davis
Event of Interest
Dec 1 Rudolf Hess & Ernest Rohm become ministers in Hitler's government
Event of Interest
Dec 6 Ban on James Joyce's "Ulysses" in US lifted
Nobel Prize
Dec 10 Nobel Prize for Physics is presented to Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrödinger "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"
- Dec 16 Abe de Vries & Sipke Castelein win Elfstedentocht
- Dec 17 Spain's 2nd government of Lerroux forms
- Dec 19 US President Roosevelt creates Electric Home & Farm Authority (EHFA) to assist low income household with purchase of major appliances [1]
- Dec 20 Bolivia & Paraguay sign cease fire
- Dec 21 Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, University of Pennsylvania
- Dec 21 Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony of Great Britain
Reichstag Fire
Dec 23 Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe sentenced to death for setting the German Reichstag on fire
- Dec 23 Train crash in Eastern Paris; 230 die
- Dec 24 Paris express train derails & kills 160, injures 300 (France)
- Dec 25 Another Christmas Day five-wicket haul by Clarrie Grimmett
- Dec 25 Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor
- Dec 25 Stan Smith takes 8-33 for Victoria v Tasmania at Hobart
- Dec 26 FM radio patent granted to American engineer Edwin Howard Armstrong
- Dec 26 US forswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere
- Dec 30 -50°F (-46°C) in Bloomfield, Vermont (state record)
- Dec 30 Government disallows NSB-membership for civil service
- Dec 30 Jack Badcock scores 274 v Victoria, Tasmania's 1st double-ton