Gone with the Wind, the drama film directed by Victor Fleming, premiered in Atlanta, Georgia.
LaGuardia Airport in New York City opens its doors.
DC Comics released Flash Comics Issue 1, featuring Flash Gordon.
The NBC broadcasted the first live American football game.
Finnish long-distance runner Taisto Mäki broke the 10,000-meter world record in 29:52:06.
The Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 became the first successful helicopter to fly.
The world's first jet-powered aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, completed its first flight.
Legend Frank Sinatra recorded his debut single with the Harry James band.
The world's first scheduled transatlantic flight takes off.
The first televised baseball game was broadcasted on NBC, featuring Princeton defeating Colombia 2-1.
The Heinkel He 100 fighter set a world airspeed record of 463 mph (745 km/h).
The erroneous word 'Dord' was added to Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition.
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells was broadcasted on the radio, creating mass public hysteria.
Inventor Chester Carlson created the first Xerox image.
Aviator Howard Hughes started his around-the-world flight.
Bradman scored his 1000th cricket run of the English season, becoming the earliest to do so.
The Adventures of Robin Hood, directed by Michael Curtiz, William Keighley, and starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, was released.
The world's fastest steam locomotive is built.
The BBC broadcast the world's first science fiction television program, an adaptation of the play R.U.R.
Lou Thesz beat Everett Marshall in St Louis, making him the youngest to win the National Wrestling Association World heavyweight title.
The Lincoln Tunnel opened to traffic.
The first full-length animated feature film, 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,' premiered.
NBC assembled the first symphony utilized exclusively for radio.
Ernest Hemingway's 'To Have and Have Not' was published in the US.
English author J. R. R. Tolkien released his critically acclaimed book 'The Hobbit.'
Toyota Motor Corporation was founded after operating as a division of Toyoda Automatic Looms for six years.
American aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared.
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana is premiered.
The German automobile manufacturer, Volkswagen, was founded.
The Hindenburg zeppelin caught fire and was destroyed while attempting to dock in New Jersey.
The first aircraft jet engine is successfully tested.
The Pedaliante, a human-powered aircraft, successfully flew 0.62 miles (1 km) in Milan, Italy.
Jack Fingleton, an Australian cricketer, became the first batsman to score 100 runs in four consecutive test matches.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation established.
The XI Summer Olympics are opened in Berlin by Adolf Hitler.
The novel 'Gone with the Wind' is published.
The world's first practical helicopter lifts off.
The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is established.
Alan Turing submitted his paper 'On Computable Numbers' for publication, in which he set out the hypothetical basis for modern computers.
New York Yankee, Joe DiMaggio, made his major-league debut.
The Phantom, the world's first superhero, appeared in the self-titled comic strip by Lee Falk.
Adolf Hitler announced the construction of the Volkswagen Beetle.
Stalin and officials walked out of Lady Macbeth opera, calling it a 'muddle,' not music.
Parker Brothers released the Monopoly board game.
Howard Hughes designed and built the world's fastest plane called the H-1 racer, then, on this day, flew it at a new world speed record at 352 miles per hour in Santa Fe, California.
Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the world record speed exceeding 300 mph on the Bonneville Flats, Utah, US.
Oklahoma City, USA, installed the world's first parking meter.
20th Century Fox was founded after a merger of Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures.
The Moscow Metro was opened to the public.
The Eastman Kodak Company launches Kodachrome.
