- January 15
- 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition. [1]
- January 19
- KLM begins flight path between Curaçao and Aruba. [1]
- January 21
- The Wilderness Society is founded. [1]
- January 24
- Canned beer makes its debut; the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company delivers 2,000 cans of Krueger's Finest Beer and Krueger's Cream Ale to drinkers in Richmond, Virginia. (By the end of the year, over 200 million cans have been produced and sold.) [1] [129] [831.22]
- January 28
- Icelandic Law No. 38 legalizes abortion, within first 28 weeks, only if continued pregnancy poses threat to physical or mental health of woman. First country to allow abortion on these grounds. [1] [55.7]
- February 1
- British coinage ceases to be legal tender in New Zealand. [572.70] [687.68]
- February 6
- First election in Turkey in which women are allowed to vote. [1]
- Board game "Monopoly" goes on sale for the first time. [1]
- February 11
- -11 degrees F (-24 degrees C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low). [1]
- February 12
- Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean off Point Sur, California. [1] [728.7]
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- February 26
- Germany begins Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering. [1]
- In England, British scientists make the first test of radio wave detection of air planes by short-wave transmitter tower and mobile radio receivers (RADAR). The test is a success. [5] [10]
- February 28
- Nylon discovered by Dr Wallace H Carothers. [1]
- March 1
- The Saar region is officially joined to Germany. [1250.9]
- March 3
- Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms. [1]
- March 7
- Saar incorporated into Germany. [1]
- March 8
- In the USA, Robert Goddard is the first to attain the speed of sound with liquid-fueled rocket. [1193.1098]
- March 11
- The Bank of Canada issues Canada's first national paper money, nine denominations ranging from $1 to $1000. [1] [444.50]
- Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe. [1]
- March 12
- England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns and villages. [1]
- March 13
- Automobile driving tests are introduced in Great Britain. [1]
- March 16
- In Germany, Adolf Hitler denounces the disarmament clauses of the Versailles Treaty, and begins open re-armament and conscription of soldiers. [10]
- March 21
- Persia officially renamed Iran. [1]
- March 25
- First Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns. [1]
- March 28
- Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket. [1]
- March 30
- Newfoundland changes time to 3.5 hours West of Greenwich, repeats 44 seconds. [1]
- April 1
- First radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, New York. [1]
- April 2
- Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR. [1]
- April 5
- Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election. [1]
- April 12
- Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers. [1]
- April 15
- Another massive dust storm in the USA becomes known as "Black Sunday". [129]
- April 21
- King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties. [1]
- April 27
- Brussels' World Expo opens. [1]
- April 28
- Moscow underground opens (81 km long). [1]
- April 30
- World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul, Turkey. [1]
- May 1
- Canada's first silver dollar is made available, struck in 0.8 fine silver. The 1935-dated coin commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the accession to the throne of King George V. [3]
- May 2
- France and the Soviet Union conclude negotiations for a five-year Treaty of Mutual Assistance. [10]
- May 6
- Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush). [1]
- May 14
- Plebiscite in the Philippines ratifies independence agreement. [1]
- May 16
- Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union sign a five-year Treaty of Mutual Assistance. [10]
- May 25
- Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark marries Ingrid, daughter of King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden. [7]
- German Chancellor Adolf Hitler agrees to not intevene in Austria or add Austria to the German Reich. [10]
- May 31
- Earthquake kills 50,000 in Quetta, Pakistan. [1]
- June 3
- French passenger liner Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours. [1]
- June 11
- Edwin Armstrong demonstrates FM broadcasting for the first time. [5]
- June 14
- Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ends. [1]
- June 18
- England and Germany sign a naval treaty, limiting the German surface fleet to 35 percent of British tonnage, and submarine fleet to 45 percent. [10]
- June 28
- US President Franklin Roosevelt orders the construction of a gold vault at Fort Knox, Kentucky. [506.40]
- July 16
- The world's first parking meter is installed, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. [1] [847.36]
- July 24
- The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR. [5]
- August 29
- In Switzerland, King Leopold II of Belgium and wife Astrid-Louise Sophie-Thyra in a car go off the road, Astrid is killed. [1093.528]
- August 31
- US President Franklin Roosevelt signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents. [1]
- September 2
- A hurricane slams the Florida Keys killing 423. [1]
- September 3
- First automobile to exceed 300 mph, driven by Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph). [1]
- September 15
- Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship and makes the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany. [1]
- September
- At the Annual Convention of the Illuminating Engineering Society in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, General Electric Company first publicly shows the fluorescent light tube, 2 feet long, emitting a brilliant green light. [55.75]
- October 2
- Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia). [1]
- October 25
- Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie and Jacmel, Haiti. [1]
- November 3
- George II returns to Greece and regains monarchy. [1]
- November 5
- Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly. [1]
- November 6
- Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane. [1] [5]
- Before the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Edwin Armstrong presents his paper, "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" (i.e. FM radio). [5]
- November 11
- National Geographic Society-funded American Explorer II balloon sets altitude record of 72,395 feet over South Dakota. [1] [985.342]
- November 14
- US President Franklin Roosevelt proclaims the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth. [1]
- November 15
- Commonwealth of Phillipines inaugurated, within the United States of America. [1] [797.22] [1058.788]
- November 22
- China Clipper (flying boat) takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on first trans-Pacific airmail flight. [1]
- December 1
- Austria has world's first Day of Postage Stamp. [1]
- December 5
- First commercial hydroponics operation established (Montebello, California). [1]
- Troops clash between Ethiopia and Italy at Wal Wal. [1168.212]
- December 11
- In British Guyana, close to Marudi Mountain, a large meteoroid or small asteroid likely explodes in mid-air, creating an elongated area over 32km long of destroyed forest. [521]
- December 15
- Max Euwe becomes world champion chess player beating Alexander Aljechin. [1]
- December 18
- Eduard Benes becomes President of Czechoslovakia. [1]
- December 20
- Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii. [1]
- December 30
- Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia. [1]
- December 31
- CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party. [1]
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