- January 3
? The
March of Dimes
is established by
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
.
- January 11
?
Frances Moulton
is the first woman to become president of a US national bank.
- January 20
? Wedding of King
Farouk I of Egypt
and Queen
Farida Zulficar
in
Cairo
- January 28
? The first
ski tow
in America begins operation in
Vermont
.
- January 31
? Crown princess
Beatrix
is born in
Netherlands
- February 4
?
Thornton Wilder
's play
Our Town
opens (
New York City
).
- February 10
?
Carol II of Romania
takes dictatorial powers
- February 12
?
World War II
:
German
troops enter
Austria
- February 24
? A
nylon
bristle
toothbrush
becomes the first commercial product to be made with nylon yarn.
- March 3
?
Oil
is discovered in
Saudi Arabia
.
- March 12
?
Anschluss
:
German
troops occupy
Austria
;
annexation
declared the following day.
- March 15
?
Soviet Union
announces officially that
Nikholai Bukharin
has been executed
- March 18
?
Mexico
nationalizes all foreign-owned
oil
properties within its borders.
- April 12
?
Edouard Daladier
becomes president of France
- April 28
? The towns of
Dana
,
Enfield
,
Greenwich
, and
Prescott
in
Massachusetts
are disincorporated to make way for the
Quabbin Reservoir
.
- May 5
?
Vatican
recognizes
Franco
's government in
Spain
- June 1
?
Action Comics
issues the first
Superman
comic.
- June 11
? Fire destroys 212 buildings in
Ludes
,
Latvia
- June 23
? The
Civil Aeronautics Act
is signed into law, forming the
Civil Aeronautics Authority
in the
United States
.
- June 23
?
Marineland
opens near
St. Augustine, Florida
.
- June 25
? Dr
Douglas Hyde
is elected the first
President of Ireland
.
- June 28
? A 450-
tonne
meteorite
struck the earth in an empty field near
Chicora, Pennsylvania
- November 9
-
10
:
Kristallnacht
happens in
Nazi Germany
. The Nazis
deport
about 30,000
Jews
to
concentration camps
, and destroy over 1,500
synagogues
.
- January 20
?
Emile Cohl
, French caricaturist and animator (b.
1857
)
- January 21
?
Georges Melies
, French movie director (b.
1861
)
- January 28
?
Bernd Rosemeyer
, German racing driver (b.
1909
)
- February 2
?
Frederick William Vanderbilt
, American railway magnate (b.
1856
)
- February 7
?
Harvey Firestone
, American manufacturer (b.
1868
)
- February 18
?
David King Udall
, American politician (b.
1851
)
- February 19
?
Edmund Landau
, German mathematician (b.
1877
)
- March 1
?
Gabriele D'Annunzio
, Italian writer, war hero, and politician (b.
1863
)
- March 2
?
Ben Harney
, American composer and pianist (b.
1871
)
- March 13
?
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin
, Soviet politician (b.
1888
)
- March 13
?
Clarence Darrow
, American attorney (b.
1857
)
- March 21
-
Oscar Apfel
, American actor, director, screenwriter, producer (b.
1878
)
- April 8
?
Joe "King" Oliver
, American musician (b.
1885
)
- April 12
?
Feodor Chaliapin
, Russian bass (b.
1873
)
- April 16
?
Steve Bloomer
, English footballer (b.
1874
)
- April 21
?
Muhammad Iqbal
, Pakistani philosopher and poet (b.
1877
)
- April 26
?
Edmund Husserl
, Austrian philosopher (b.
1859
)
- May 4
?
Carl von Ossietzky
, German pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize
(b.
1889
)
- May 9
?
Thomas B. Thrige
, Danish industrialist (b.
1866
)
- May 13
?
Charles Edouard Guillaume
, French physicist,
Nobel Prize
laureate (b.
1861
)
- May 26
?
John Jacob Abel
, American pharmacologist (b.
1857
)
- August 1
?
Edmund Charles Tarbell
, American artist (b.
1862
)
- 18 July
-
Marie of Romania Queen of Romania wife of King Ferdinand I of Romania
- August 7
?
Konstantin Stanislavski
, Russian actor (b.
1863
)
- August 14
?
Hugh Trumble
, Australian Test Cricketer (b.
1876
)
- August 16
?
Robert Johnson
, American musician (b.
1911
)
- September 17
?
Bruno Jasie?ski
, Polish poet (b.
1901
)
- October 22
?
May Irwin
, Canadian actress and singer (b.
1862
)
- October 24
?
Ernst Barlach
, German sculptor and poet (b.
1870
)
- October 27
?
Lascelles Abercrombie
, English poet and critic (b.
1881
)
- October 31
-
Robert Woolsey
, American actor and Comedian in a Double Act with Bert Wheeler (b.
1888
).
- November 9
?
Vasily Blyukher
, Soviet military commander (b.
1889
)
- November 10
?
Kemal Ataturk
,
President of Turkey
(b.
1881
)
- November 30
?
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
, Romanian fascist, leader of the
Iron Guard
(executed along other Guard activists) (b.
1899
)
- December 11
?
Christian Lous Lange
, Norwegian pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize
(b.
1869
)
- December 25
?
Karel ?apek
, Czech writer (b.
1890
)
- December 28
?
Florence Lawrence
, Canadian actress (b.
1886
)