- January 30
- First radio telephone connection between Netherlands and US. [1]
- January 31
- Scotch tape first marketed by 3-M Company. [1]
- February 8
- First transatlantic TV image received, in Hartsdale, New York, USA. [1]
- Scottish inventor J Blaird demonstrates color-TV. [1] [457]
- February 22
- First solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler pilot). [1]
- March 13
- 450 die in Saint Francis Valley Dam burst (California). [1]
- March 15
- Benito Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose). [1]
- April 1
- Chiang Kai-shek's army crosses Yang-tse River. [1]
- April 9
- Turkey passes separation of church and state. [1]
- April 12
- Assassination attempt on King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy. [1]
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- April 13
- First trans-atlantic flight, Europe-US (Fitzmaurice-von Hünefeld-Köhl). [1]
- April 19
- Japanese troops occupy Sjantung-schiereiland. [1]
- April 24
- Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented. [1]
- April 25
- Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes first guide dog for the blind. [1]
- April 26
- Madame Tussaud's waxworks exhibition opens in London. [1]
- April 30
- Cherkess Autonomous Region is established in RSFSR (until 1957). [1]
- May 1
- Six children die and ten injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania. [1]
- Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern Airlines) begins service. [1]
- May 7
- England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21. [1]
- Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for Bridge of San Luis Rey. [1]
- May 11
- General Electric opens first TV-station (Schenectady New York). [1]
- May 12
- Benito Mussolini ends women's rights in Italy. [1]
- May 15
- Walt Disney's first silent film featuring Mickey Mouse, Plane Crazy premieres as a sneak preview at a theatre on Sunset Boulevard, in Los Angeles, California. [1] [5] [6]
- May 19
- "Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pennsylvania coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners. [1]
- May 23
- Bomb attack on Italian embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina; 22 die. [1]
- May 28
- American automakers Dodge Brothers Inc and Chrysler Corp merge. [1]
- May 29
- Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car. [1]
- May 31
- First aerial cross of the Pacific takes off from Oakland, California. [1]
- June 8
- First US-to-Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford). [1]
- June 9
- First aerial cross of the Pacific lands in Brisbane Australia. [1]
- June 28
- Friedrich Schmiedl attempts rocket mail in Austria (unsucessful). [1]
- July 3
- London, England, sees its first color television broadcast. [5]
- July 6
- First all-talking motion picture shown, in New York (Lights of New York). [1]
- World's largest hailstones 1.5 pounds (17 inch diameter) fall in Potter, Nebraska, USA. [1] [5]
- July 17
- General Alvaro Obregón, president of Mexico, is assassinated. [1]
- July 30
- George Eastman demonstrates first color movie. [1]
- August 27
- Sixteen die in New York City subway accident. [1]
- The Pact of Paris (Kellogg-Briand Pact) is signed by the USA, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Poland. The countries condemn recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of national policy in relations with one another. [10]
- September 1
- Ahmet Muhtar Bej Zogolli is crowned King Zog of Albania. [1] [446.16] [494.15]
- September 11
- First TV drama-WGY's The Queens Messenger. [1]
- September 17
- Hurricane hits Lake Okeechobee, Florida, USA drowning 1,800-2500. [1]
- September 27
- US recognizes Nationalist Chinese government. [1]
- September 28
- Juan de la Cierva makes first helicopter flight over English Channel. [1]
- October 1
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average is expanded from 20 stocks to 30. A divisor is introduced to adjust for extraneous changes to a stock, such as a split. The initial divisor is 16.67. The index removes American Car & Foundry, American Locomotive, American Telephone & Telegraph, American Tobacco, Paramount Famous Lasky, United Drug, U.S. Rubber, and Western Union, and adds American Tobacco B, Atlantic Refining, Bethlehem Steel, Chrysler, General Railway Signal, Goodrich, International Nickel, Nash Motors, North American, Paramount Publix, Postum Incorporated, Radio Corporation, Standard Oil (N.J.), Texas Gulf Sulphur, Union Carbide, Victor Talking Machine, Westinghouse Electric, and Wright Aeronautical. [227] [228]
- October 3
- French submarine Ondine sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42. [1]
- October 6
- Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China. [1]
- November 1
- Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km. [1]
- November 3
- Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet. [1]
- November 10
- Hirohito enthroned as Emperor of Japan. [1]
- November 12
- British steamer Vestris capsizes and sinks off Virginia, USA, kills 110. [1]
- November 18
- The Colony Theater in New York debuts Disney's Mickey Mouse film Steamboat Willie. This is the sound debut of Mickey Mouse, with Minnie Mouse (unnamed) as co-star. The film is the first cartoon to feature synchronized sound. [1] [6]
- December 1
- Railroad museum opens in Utrecht, Netherlands. [1]
- December 5
- MW Miklas elected President of Austria. [1]
- December 11
- Buenos Aires (Argentina) police thwart an attempt on US President-elect Herbert Hoover. [1]
- December 20
- First international dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine, USA for Montréal, Québec, Canada. [1]
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