| January 1 | Roy Riegels runs 60 yards the wrong way with Rose Bowl fumble recovery |
| January 2 | U.S. and Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls |
| January 3 | 27 year old William S. Paley becomes CBS president |
| January 3 | Bradman scores 112 vs. England at MCG - his 1st Test century |
| January 5 | Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia |
| January 6 | Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia |
| January 7 | 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and East Indies |
| January 7 | "Buck Rogers," 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres |
| January 7 | "Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears |
| January 8 | 1st telephone connection between Netherlands and West-Indies |
| January 8 | CBS radio network buys WABC in New York City |
| January 9 | BG DeSylva and Lew Brown's musical "Follow Thru," premieres in New York City |
| January 9 | KDB-AM in Santa Barbara, California begins radio transmissions |
| January 10 | Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," premieres in New York City |
| January 12 | Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana |
| January 13 | Humanist Society established, Hollywood California |
| January 14 | Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign |
| January 17 | Popeye makes 1st appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theater" |
| January 18 | "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio |
| January 18 | Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo |
| January 19 | Acadia National Park, Maine established |
| January 19 | Clas Thunberg skates world record 500m in 42.8 sec |
| January 20 | 1st feature talking motion picture taken outdoors, "In Old Arizona" |
| January 21 | Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End," premieres in London |
| January 25 | Bradman scores 340* for NSW vs. Victoria, 488 minutes, 38 fours |
| January 26 | Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence |
| January 29 | Seeing Eye Guide Dog Organization forms |
| January 31 | Erich Maria Remarques publishes "Im West nieces Neues" in Berlin |
| January 31 | Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey |
| February 1 | 1st clean and jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402 lbs |
| February 3 | Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam |
| February 4 | Archie Jackson scores 164 on Test Cricket debut vs. England at Adelaide |
| February 5 | Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in SF |
| February 6 | Rudy Vallee recorded "Deep Night" |
| February 8 | KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions |
| February 9 | U.S.S.R., Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Romania sign Litvinov Pact |
| February 11 | Eugene O'Neill's "Dynamo," premieres in New York City |
| February 11 | Vatican City, world's smallest country, made an enclave of Rome |
| February 12 | Karst Leemburg wins Dutch 11 cities skate (11:30) |
| February 13 | Cruiser Act: OKs construction of 19 new cruisers and an aircraft carrier |
| February 13 | Vladimir Mayakofsky's "Klop," premieres in Moscow |
| February 14 | St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed |
| February 15 | St. Valentine's Day massacre (Chicago) |
| February 16 | KID-AM in Idaho Falls, Idaho begins radio transmissions |
| February 19 | Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, New York |
| February 20 | American Samoa organizes as territory of U.S. |
| February 20 | Red Sox announce they will play Sunday games at Braves Field |
| February 26 | President Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park |
| February 27 | Turkey signs Litvinov-pact |
| February 28 | Chicago Blackhawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home |
| March 2 | Chicago Black Hawks shut-out for NHL record 8th straight game |
| March 2 | Congress creates Court of Customs and Patent Appeals |
| March 4 | Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American Vice President |
| March 4 | Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st president |
| March 6 | Turkey and Bulgaria sign friendship treaty |
| March 8 | U.S. worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia |
| March 9 | Marcel Pagnol's "Marius," premieres in Paris |
| March 13 | Bradman scores 123 Australia vs. England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket ton |
| March 16 | WHP-AM in Harrisburg Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions |
| March 17 | General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel |
| March 17 | Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid |
| March 18 | Dmitri Shostakovich' "The new Babylon," premieres in Leningrad |
| March 22 | 66 horses run in Irish Grand National Sweepstakes |
| March 22 | KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions |
| March 22 | USCG vessel sank Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor |
| March 23 | 1st telephone installed in White House |
| March 27 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
| March 27 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
| March 28 | Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador |
| March 29 | Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins sweep New York Rangers in 2 games |
| April 1 | Austrian government of Ignaz Seipel falls |
| April 1 | Doorne's trailer factory in Einsdhoven, Netherlands opens |
| April 1 | Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo |
| April 1 | Luis Bunuel releases "Un Chien Andalou," 24-minute film |
| April 1 | Morehouse College, Spellman College and Atlanta University affiliate |
| April 3 | Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact |
| April 4 | 1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held |
| April 4 | "New Moon" musical opens in London |
| April 5 | Lithuania signs Litvinov-pact |
| April 11 | KLO-AM in Ogden, Utah begins radio transmissions |
| April 11 | Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam |
| April 16 | Cleveland Indian Earl Averill, becomes 1st AL to hit a home run on 1st at bat |
| April 16 | New York Yankees become 1st team to wear uniform numbers |
| April 18 | Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire |
| April 19 | 33rd Boston Marathon won by Johnny Miles of Canada in 2:33:08.6 |
| April 24 | 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off |
| April 24 | Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark |
| April 26 | 1st non-stop England to India flight lands |
| April 30 | Earnest Streeruwitz becomes chancellor of Austria |
| May 1 | Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds |
| May 1 | Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen |
| May 1 | Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin |
| May 3 | Prussia bans anti-fascists |
| May 4 | Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive home runs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9 |
| May 6 | AL announces it will discontinue MVP award |
| May 6 | New York to San Francisco footrace begins |
| May 8 | Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway |
| May 8 | New York Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pirates, 11-0 |
| May 9 | New York Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pittsburgh Pirates |
| May 9 | WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions |
| May 10 | 55th Preakness: Louis Schaefer aboard Dr. Freeland wins in 2:01.6 |
| May 10 | 64th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Muirfield Gullane |
| May 11 | 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week) |
| May 11 | Dr. Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin Tx |
| May 12 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary) |
| May 15 | Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| May 16 | 1st Academy Awards - "Wings," Emil Jennings and Janet Gaynor wins |
| May 18 | 55th Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee on Clyde Van Dusen wins in 2:10.8 |
| May 18 | Dodgers beat Phillies 20-16 and lost 8-6 in 2nd game (record 50 runs) |
| May 19 | Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death |
| May 19 | General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek government |
| May 21 | Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, New York City |
| May 21 | Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son," premieres in Paris |
| May 24 | Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings |
| May 27 | 2nd Ryder Cup: Britain - Ireland, 7 - 5 at Moortown, England |
| May 28 | 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (New York City) |
| May 31 | Atlantic City Convention Center opens |
| June 3 | 1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center, electric light |
| June 3 | Chile, Peru and Bolivia sign accord about Tacna-Arica-area |
| June 4 | George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie in Rochester, New York |
| June 5 | Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour government in Britain |
| June 7 | Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st Dutch female minister (of Labor) |
| June 7 | Vatican City becomes a sovereign state |
| June 8 | 61st Belmont: Mack Garner aboard Blue Larkspur wins in 2:32.8 |
| June 8 | Venezuelan rebel Rafael Urbina overthrows Fort Amsterdam, Curaeao kidnap governor Fruytier |
| June 9 | Venezuelan rebel Urbina lets Dutch/Curacaose hostages free |
| June 14 | Prussia and Vatican sign Concord |
| June 15 | 1st time New York curb stock exchange transacts more business than New York Exch |
| June 16 | Otto E Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (New York to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days) |
| June 22 | Mel Ott (Giants) homers off Leo Sweetland (Phillies) in doubleheader |
| June 25 | President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam, Hoover Dam |
| June 26 | ENKA/Vereinigte Glanzstoff Factory merge AKU (Genl Kunstzijde Union) |
| June 27 | 1st color TV demo, New York City |
| June 27 | President Von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WW I |
| June 29 | 1st high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field Ca |
| June 29 | 31.1 degrees C (88 degrees F) hoogste temperatuur op deze dag in De Bilt |
| June 29 | Mexico and Vatican sign Concord |
| June 30 | 33rd U.S. Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 294 at Winged Foot CC NY |
| July 1 | U.S. cartoonist Elzie Segar creates "Popeye" |
| July 1 | U.S. Immigration law of 1924 in effect |
| July 3 | Dunlop Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber |
| July 4 | AM radio station WOWO, Indiana's transmitter burns down |
| July 5 | 42nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (61 62) |
| July 5 | WOWO-AM, Indiana returns to air, 1 day after transmitter burns down |
| July 6 | St. Louis has 2, 10 run innings and beats Phillies 28-6 |
| July 7 | Romania and Vatican sign concord |
| July 10 | In game between Pirates and Phillies 9 home runs hit 1 in each inning |
| July 10 | U.S. issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency |
| July 15 | 1st airport hotel opens - Oakland, California |
| July 17 | U.S.S.R. drops diplomatic relations with China |
| July 24 | New York to San Francisco foot race ends (2 months) winner is 60 year old Monteverde |
| July 24 | President Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war |
| July 27 | Dike of Wieringermeerpolder finished |
| July 28 | Chicago Cardinals become 1st NFL team to train out of state (Michigan) |
| July 29 | Belgium Maurice Dewaele wins Tour de France |
| July 31 | Aristide Briand becomes premier of France |
| August 2 | Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a home run |
| August 4 | 60,000 SA'ers/SS'ers march by Munich |
| August 4 | Indians, in 9th with 2 outs score 9 to beat Yankees 14-6 |
| August 4 | Jones Beach in New York opens |
| August 7 | Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms Dutch government |
| August 7 | Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games |
| August 8 | German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight |
| August 8 | Salem, Oregon airport dedicated |
| August 10 | Grover Alexander beats Phils 7-1 for his 373rd and last NL win |
| August 11 | Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers off Willis Hudlin of Cleveland |
| August 11 | Persia and Iraq sign friendship treaty |
| August 11 | Russian-Chinese border fights |
| August 14 | Jewish Agency for Palestine forms |
| August 20 | 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed |
| August 21 | Chicago Cardinals become 1st pro football team to train out of town |
| August 23 | Arabs attack Jews in Israel |
| August 24 | 43rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Phoebe H Watson (64 62) |
| August 24 | Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem |
| August 24 | Turkey and Persia signs friendship treaty |
| August 25 | Graf Zeppelin passes over San Francisco for LA after trans-Pacific voyage |
| August 26 | 1st U.S. roller coaster built |
| August 28 | Frank Woolley scores his 100th first-class hundred |
| August 29 | German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight |
| September 2 | Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union and Lever Bros |
| September 2 | WOR (New York City) ends affiliation with CBS radio network |
| September 3 | Dow Jones hits a record peak of 381.17 |
| September 5 | French premier A Briand requests a U.S. of Europe |
| September 11 | SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system |
| September 14 | 49th U.S. Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats Francis Hunter (36 63 46 62 64) |
| September 14 | A's clinch AL pennant with a 5-0 win over White Sox |
| September 16 | Police shoots at strikers at Maastricht, 2 killed |
| September 17 | British troops begin evacuating |
| September 18 | Pirates loss to Braves and clinch NL pennant for the Cubs |
| September 18 | Preston Sturges' "Strictly Dishonorable," premieres in New York City |
| September 21 | 1st legal pass in Canada was thrown by Gerry Seiberling and 1st reception by Ralph Losie of Calgary Altomah-Tigers against Edmonton |
| September 24 | Lt James H Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in New York in 1st all-instrument flight |
| September 24 | Yankees Tom Zachary ends season 12-0 |
| September 25 | Queen-mother Emma opens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam |
| September 26 | John Schrober becomes chancellor of Austria |
| September 28 | 1st CF interception return for a touchdown (Joe Hess-University of Alberta) |
| September 30 | 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel) |
| October 3 | British Labour government recovers diplomatic relations with U.S.S.R. |
| October 3 | Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as German foreign minister |
| October 3 | Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia |
| October 6 | 12th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Hillcrest CC Los Angeles |
| October 7 | Ramsay MacDonald is 1st British premier to address U.S. Congress |
| October 8 | A's Howard Ehmke (7-2) sets World Series record striking out 13 Cubs |
| October 8 | Mohammed Nadir Khan occupies Kabul Afghanistan/drives out H Ghazi |
| October 9 | G Kaufman and R Lardner's musical "June Moon," premieres in New York City |
| October 11 | Sean O'Casey's "Silver Tassle," premieres in London |
| October 12 | Cubs blow 8-0 World Series lead, A's score 10 in 1 inning |
| October 14 | Philadelphia A's beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 1 in 26th World Series |
| October 14 | Philadelphia A's set World Series record of 10 runs in an inning |
| October 20 | Bayshore Highway opens (SF) |
| October 22 | French government of Briand falls |
| October 22 | James H. Scullin forms Australia government |
| October 24 | Belgium princess Marie-Jose and Italian crown prince Umberto gets engaged, assassination attempt on Umberto fails |
| October 24 | "Black Thursday," start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8% |
| October 24 | Ruby Vallee's Fleishmann Hour begins broadcasting on NBC radio |
| October 25 | Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe |
| October 28 | Dow Jones plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64 |
| October 29 | Black Tuesday, Stock Market crashes triggers Great Depression |
| November 1 | Lundy, part of British Isles, issue their own stamps |
| November 4 | John Baldridge' "Berkeley Square," premieres in New York City |
| November 7 | Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City |
| November 8 | Jean Giraudoux' "Amphitryon '38," premieres in Paris |
| November 8 | New York City Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building |
| November 17 | Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico |
| November 17 | Stalin throws Nicolai Bucharin out of Politburo |
| November 18 | Dr. Vladimir K Zworykin demonstrates "kinescope" |
| November 18 | Large quake in Atlantic breaks Transatlantic cable in 28 places |
| November 18 | Stalin routes troops to Manchuria |
| November 20 | 1st broadcast of "Goldbergs" on U.S. radio |
| November 20 | Salvador Dali's 1st one-man show |
| November 22 | Bradman scores 157 for NSW against the MCC at cricket SCG |
| November 25 | Belgium government Jaspar falls |
| November 28 | Admiral Richard E Byrd makes 1st South Pole flight |
| November 28 | Ernie Nevers scores all 40 pts for Chicago Cards vs Bears (NFL record) |
| November 29 | Lieutenant Commander Richard E. Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole" |
| November 30 | 17th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 14-3 |
| December 1 | BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe |
| December 1 | Game of Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe |
| December 2 | 1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien |
| December 3 | Boston Bruins begins then NHL record 14 game winning streak |
| December 5 | 1st U.S. nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, New York City) |
| December 6 | Turkey introduces female suffrage |
| December 7 | Bradman scores 124 for Woodfull's XI against Ryder's XI 166 minutes |
| December 7 | Leo Diegel wins PGA golf tournament |
| December 10 | Bradman scores 225 in 2nd inn of Test Cricket trial after 124 in 1st |
| December 14 | Alexander Zaimis elected President of Greece |
| December 15 | Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro |
| December 16 | Chicago Blackhawks 1st game at Chicago Stadium, beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-1 |
| December 20 | Heinie Wagner replaces Bill Carrigan as Red Sox manager |
| December 20 | Mount Davidson dedicated as a San Francisco city park |
| December 21 | 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx) |
| December 25 | Grimmett takes 6-146 for SA, Queensland all out 380 Crowd 5,390 |
| December 29 | Police arrest Sukarno and 100s PNI-leaders |
| December 30 | Cole Porter's musical "Wake Up and Dream," premieres in New York City |
| December 30 | Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates |
| December 31 | Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini illius magistri |
