Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Bellonte successfully flew the first non-stop transatlantic flight from east to west when they landed in New York City.
Host nation Uruguay defeated Argentina 4-2 in Montevideo to win the first FIFA World Cup.
Construction began on the Hoover Dam in Nevada.
Amy Johnson became the first woman to fly solo from the UK to Australia.
Ellen Church became the first female airline stewardess aboard a Boeing Air Transport flight from San Francisco to Chicago.
Colonel Harland Sanders founded KFC in North Corbin, Kentucky.
Mahatma Gandhi embarks on his Salt March.
Frozen food is sold in retail stores for the first time.
Dubbed 'Black Thursday,' the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.
Canada legally declared women as 'persons.'
The ''LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin” returned to Lakehurst, New Jersey, after being the first airship to circumference the earth in one journey.
The Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War was signed in Geneva, Switzerland.
Margaret Bondfield became the first female cabinet minister in the UK.
Vatican City signed the Lateran Treaty making it an independent state.
US President Herbert Hoover installed the White House's first telephone.
Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park was established after being signed off by President Calvin Coolidge.
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre took place in Chicago.
Mother Teresa arrived in India to help some of the country's poorest.
The US & Canada agreed to divert the Niagara River to protect the Niagara Falls from eroding.
President Coolidge signed a bill authorizing The Boulder Canyon Project Act, which allowed for the construction of what is known today as the Hoover Dam.
American pioneer aviator Noel Wien founded Alaska's first airline, Wien Alaska Airlines Inc.
Newark Liberty International Airport opened, becoming the first airport in the New York City metropolitan area.
The Prussian government lifted a ban on Adolf Hitler's speeches.
Paul Galvin and his brother Joseph founded Motorola as the 'Galvin Manufacturing Co.' in Chicago, Illinois.
American actress Katherine Hepburn had her first stage performance in New York City, where she played in 'Night Hostess.'
IX Summer Olympics open.
Scotsman John Logie Baird demonstrated the color television transmission in London for the first time.
Charles Kingsford Smith completes the world's first trans-Pacific flight.
The Great Fall River fire destroyed many businesses downtown in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Gutzon Borglum began sculpting Mount Rushmore.
Pirate alcohol smuggler Horace Alderman killed three people, including a coast guardsman and secret service agent.
The first flight from the West Coast to Hawaii was made by the US Army aircraft, The Bird of Paradise.
In the Spirit of St Louis, Aviator Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris after the first-ever solo air crossing of Atlantic.
45 people die in the United States' worst school massacre.
The Chinese Theater opened in Hollywood, California, built in an Exotic Revival style architecture.
The White Bird and its crew mysteriously disappear.
The first telephone call was made across the Atlantic – from London to New York.
Hirohito becomes the 124th emperor of Japan.
The world famous escape artist performed for the last time at the Garrick Theater in Detroit, Michigan.
Violet Stewart Piercy, a long-distance runner from England, set the first recorded marathon win for women at 3:40:22.
First Woman to Swim Across the English Channel.
The first flight over the North Pole was completed, flown by Richard E. Byrd with co-pilot Floyd Bennett.
Bertha Landes became the first female mayor of a major city (Seattle) in the US.
Scottish inventor John Logie Baird changed the world of communication and entertainment forever when he demonstrated television for the first time.
Adolf Hitler published Mein Kampf in Germany.
The Scopes Monkey Trial took place in Dayton, Tennessee.
The All-China Federation of Trade Unions was founded.
Adolf Hitler formed the Schutzstaffel, the infamous paramilitary organization known to most as the SS.
The first Sears retail store opened in Chicago.
20 mushers embark on a journey to transport medicine to Nome, Alaska, inspiring the Iditarod Race.
