Hoover Dam began producing electricity and transmitting it to Los Angeles, California.
The Tasmanian Tiger becomes extinct.
The XI Summer Olympics are opened in Berlin by Adolf Hitler.
American mobster Charles Luciano (also known as Lucky Luciano) was trialed and sentenced to 30-50 years in prison.
The world's first practical helicopter lifts off.
The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is established.
Adolf Hitler announced the construction of the Volkswagen Beetle.
Dr. John J. Livingood reported the first synthetic production of a natural form of radium.
Stalin and officials walked out of Lady Macbeth opera, calling it a 'muddle,' not music.
Nuremberg laws instituted by the Nazi party are put into force.
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.
Rowntree's introduced the famous Kit Kat featuring three layers of wafer cut into finger slices and surrounded by milk chocolate.
Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
Oklahoma City, USA, installed the world's first parking meter.
Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio.
The Moscow Metro was opened to the public.
New York became the first US court to allow blood test results to be used as evidence.
Colorado became the birthplace of the cheeseburger.
Nylon is invented.
Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated radar in Slough, England, UK.
Planes were banned from passing over the White House.
Danish-Norwegian explorer Caroline Mikkelsen became the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
Law No. 38 in Iceland was approved, making abortion legal.
The first canned beer received instant approval from customers.
Coopers Inc. started selling the world's first men's briefs in Chicago.
Amelia Earhart flies solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland.
American bank robber Charles Arthur Floyd, AKA Pretty Boy Floyd, was shot dead by the FBI.
The Long March.
USSR joins the League of Nations.
Adolf Hitler became Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
The Nazi Party killed around 1,000 people, which became known as the 'Night of Long Knives.'
American gangster John Dillinger died from gunshot wounds at age 31.
The Dionne quintuplets were born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne, who later became the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
Police killed Bonnie and Clyde.
Bonnie and Clyde shot two highway patrolmen outside Grapevine, Texas.
Driving tests were introduced in the UK for the first time.
The notorious John Dillinger used a wooden pistol to break out of prison.
The Austrian Civil War came to an end after four days of bloodshed.
A record low temperature was recorded and reached a bone-chilling -15°F in Central Park, New York City.
Lady Macbeth by Dmitri Shostakovich was performed for the first time in Leningrad, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Fujifilm is founded.
21st Amendment is ratified; Prohibition ends.
Meat packers began the first modern sit-down strike at the Hormel plant in Austin, Minnesota.
The bank robber John Dillinger and his gang robbed $75,000 from the Central National Bank in Greencastle, Indiana.
Albert Einstein safely arrived in the US after fleeing Nazi Germany.
United Airlines Boeing 247 explosion.
Elizabeth McCombs won the seat of Lyttelton, becoming the first woman in New Zealand to be elected a Member of Parliament.
Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq.
American aviator Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the Earth.
Robber John Dillinger stole $10,000 in his first robbery at a bank in New Carlisle, Ohio.
