Jan 2nd - US troops leave Nicaragua
Jan 5th - Work on Golden Gate Bridge begins, on Marin County side
Jan 12th - US Congress recognize independence Philippines
Jan 28th - The name Pakistan is coined by Choudhary Rehmat Ali Khan and is accepted by the Indian Muslims who then thereby adopted it further for the Pakistan Movement seeking independence.
Jan 29th - German president Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as chancellor
Jan 30th - Adolf Hitler named German Chancellor, forms government with Von Papen
Feb 15th - Pres-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt
Feb 20th - House of Reps completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition
Feb 25th - 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger
Feb 25th - Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts on goal line)
Feb 25th - Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox
Feb 26th - Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field
Mar 2nd - "King Kong," premieres at Radio City Music Hall & RKO Roxy NYC
Mar 3rd - Mount Rushmore dedicated
Mar 7th - Game of "Monopoly" invented
Mar 10th - Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics
Mar 12th - FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"
Mar 31st - German Republic gives power to Hitler
Apr 1st - Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews by boycotting Jewish businesses
Apr 17th - Chicago Bears win their 1st NFL Game beating NY Giants 23-21
Apr 26th - Jewish students are barred from school in Germany
May 8th - Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest against British oppression in India.
May 18th - 1st major league All-Star Game announced for July 6 at Comiskey Park It will be played as part of the Chicago World's Fair
May 27th - Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released
Jun 6th - 1st drive-in theater opens (Camden NJ)
Jun 10th - John Dillinger robs his first bank, in New Carlisle, Ohio. He takes $10, 600
Jun 10th - Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Park flip their car into a ravine, and Parker suffers serious third degree burns from the accident which would affect her for the rest of her life
Jun 16th - US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created
Jul 4th - Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge
Jul 6th - 1st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at Comiskey Park, Chicago, Babe Ruth hits first All Star home run
Jul 28th - NFL divides into (2) 5 team divisions
ep 20th - Pittsburgh Steelers (as Pirates) play 1st NFL game, lose 23-2
Oct 10th - 1st synthetic detergent, "Dreft" by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale
Oct 12th - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison (unofficially)
Oct 14th - Nazi Germany announces withdrawal from League of Nations
Oct 15th - Philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to NY Giants 56-0
Oct 17th - Albert Einstein arrives in US, a refugee from Nazi Germany
Oct 19th - Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936
Nov 12th - 1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal)
Nov 28th - A Dallas grand jury delivers a murder indictment against Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow for the January 1933 killing of Tarrant County Deputy Malcolm Davis
Nov 29th - 1st state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania)
Dec 2nd - South Carolina defeats Auburn in football, a feat not since replicated.
Dec 3rd - Connie Mack sells Mickey Cochrane to Det Tigers for $100,000
Dec 17th - NFL starts official stats as Bears beat Giants 23-21 in champ game
Dec 21st - Fox Films signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract
Dec 26th - FM radio is patented.
Dec 29th - Yank refuses to release Babe Ruth so he can manage the Cin Reds