| January 1 | 1st Sugar Bowl and 1st Orange Bowl |
| January 1 | Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto |
| January 1 | Eastern Airlines hires Eddie Rickenbacker as General Manager |
| January 1 | President Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Ataturk: Father of Turkey" |
| January 2 | Bruno Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap and murder of Lindbergh baby |
| January 4 | Bob Hope 1st heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue" |
| January 4 | Fort Jefferson National Monument in Florida established |
| January 7 | Zoe Akins' "Old Maid," premieres in New York City |
| January 8 | Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy |
| January 10 | Actress Mary Pickford marries actor Douglas Fairbanks |
| January 11 | Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu to Oakland California (non-stop, of course) |
| January 13 | Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany |
| January 14 | Oil pipeline Iraq-Mediterranean goes into use |
| January 15 | 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition |
| January 15 | Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty," premieres in New York City |
| January 19 | KLM begins flight path between Curaeao and Aruba |
| January 21 | 12.0" (30.5 cm) of rain falls, Quinault RS, Washington (state record) |
| January 21 | WFI-AM in Philadelphia Penn merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ) |
| January 21 | Wilderness Society forms |
| January 24 | 1st canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale," is sold by Kruger Brewing Co |
| January 28 | Iceland becomes 1st country to legalize abortion |
| January 30 | Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos" |
| February 1 | 1st "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol |
| February 1 | James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy |
| February 2 | Lie detector 1st used in court, Portage, Wisconsin |
| February 6 | 1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey |
| February 6 | Monopoly board game goes on sale for 1st time |
| February 7 | Monopoly invented by Charles Darrow symbol Rich Uncle Pennybags |
| February 8 | 1st NFL draft; Jay Berwanger of U Chicago is 1st pick (by Eagles) He never plays in NFL |
| February 9 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
| February 9 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee |
| February 10 | 1st U.S. streamlined electric RR engine begins service |
| February 10 | Pennsylvania Rail Road begins passenger service on new electric locomotive |
| February 11 | -11 degrees F (-24 degrees C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low) |
| February 11 | 1st U.S. airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, New York |
| February 12 | Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean |
| February 13 | 1st U.S. surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland |
| February 13 | Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap and murder of Lindbergh's infant |
| February 19 | Clifford Odets' "Awake and Sing," premieres in New York City |
| February 20 | Karoline Mikkelson is 1st woman on Antarctica |
| February 22 | Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House |
| February 26 | Germany begin Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering |
| February 26 | New York Yankees release Babe Ruth, he signs with Boston Braves |
| February 26 | RADAR-Radio Detection and Ranging 1st demonstrated (Robert Watson-Watt) |
| February 28 | Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit |
| February 28 | Nylon discovered by Dr. Wallace H. Carothers |
| March 3 | Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms |
| March 5 | 1st premature baby health law in U.S. (Chicago) |
| March 6 | Frank Bartell, Czechoslovakia, cycles record 80.584 mph in Los Angeles |
| March 7 | Saar incorporated into Germany |
| March 11 | Bank of Canada opens |
| March 11 | Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe |
| March 12 | England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns and villages |
| March 13 | Driving tests introduced in Great Britain |
| March 14 | 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars |
| March 15 | George Headley completes 270 in cricket vs. England at Kingston |
| March 16 | Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty |
| March 17 | KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR |
| March 20 | "Your Hit Parade" made its debut on radio |
| March 21 | Jean Anouilh's "Y avait un presonnier," premieres in Paris |
| March 21 | Persia officially renamed Iran |
| March 22 | Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (New York) |
| March 24 | Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network |
| March 25 | 1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns |
| March 26 | "RvJ" Mitchell and Major Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire |
| March 28 | Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket |
| March 29 | French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage |
| March 30 | Newfoundland changes time to 3 hours W of Greenwich, repeats 44 sec |
| March 31 | Fusahige Suzuki runs world record marathon (2:27:49) |
| April 1 | 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, New York |
| April 2 | Mary Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer |
| April 2 | Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR |
| April 3 | Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44) |
| April 5 | Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election |
| April 6 | H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses and sinks 371 more |
| April 8 | 2nd Golf Masters Championship: Gene Sarazen wins, shooting a 282 |
| April 8 | Bartoks 5th String quartet premieres in Washington D.C. |
| April 8 | Works Progress Administration, WPA, approved by Congress |
| April 9 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Maroons sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 3 games |
| April 10 | Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London |
| April 12 | Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers |
| April 12 | Royal Proclamation sets design of Canada's new Jubilee Silver Dollar |
| April 12 | "Your Hit Parade," debuts on radio |
| April 14 | Sandstorm ravages U.S. midwest (Dust Bowl) |
| April 16 | 1st radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee and Molly" |
| April 16 | Babe Ruth's 1st NL game, for Boston Braves, included a home run |
| April 17 | Provincial-National elections (Musserts NSB achieves 7.9%/44 chairs) |
| April 18 | General Sarazen's double eagle on 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters |
| April 18 | Netherlands election (Musserts NSB wins 8% of vote) |
| April 19 | 39th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Mass in 2:32:07.4 |
| April 20 | "Your Hit Parade" begins broadcasting (becomes #1 quickly) |
| April 21 | King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties |
| April 26 | Frank Boucher is given NHL's Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship permanently for winning it 7 of 11 years |
| April 27 | Brussel's World Expo opens |
| April 27 | Yankees pull a 1st inning triple-play and beat Philadelphia A's 9-8 |
| April 28 | Moscow underground opens (81 km long) |
| April 30 | World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul |
| May 1 | Boulder Dam completed |
| May 1 | Canada's 1st silver dollar is circulated |
| May 4 | 61st Kentucky Derby: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:05 |
| May 5 | Jessie Owens of U.S., sets then long jump record at 26' 8" |
| May 6 | British King George and Queen Mary celebrates silver jubilee |
| May 6 | KTM-AM in Los Angeles California changes call letters to KEHE (now KABC) |
| May 6 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush) |
| May 8 | Cincinnati Red Ernie Lombardi doubles in 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th beat Phils 15-4 |
| May 11 | 61st Preakness: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 1:58.4 |
| May 14 | Griffith Planetarium opens in Los Angeles, 3rd in US |
| May 14 | Plebiscite in Philippines ratifies independence agreement |
| May 15 | Pirates beat Phillies 20-5 |
| May 18 | Harold Gimblett scores 123 in 80 minutes on debut for Somerset |
| May 19 | NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936 |
| May 23 | 1st scheduled night game, postponed due to rain (Cincinnati) |
| May 24 | 1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Phil 1) |
| May 24 | Swedish princess Ingrid marries Danish crown prince Frederik (IX) |
| May 25 | Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs. Pirates |
| May 25 | Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour |
| May 27 | Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional |
| May 29 | Hague local museum opens |
| May 30 | Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies |
| May 31 | Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat |
| May 31 | Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan |
| June 1 | Yankees set solo home run record with 6 beat Boston 7-2 |
| June 2 | Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player |
| June 3 | French Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours |
| June 8 | 39th U.S. Golf Open: Sam Parks, Jr. shoots a 299 at Oakmont CC PA |
| June 8 | 67th Belmont: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:30.6 |
| June 8 | Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds and leaves the game |
| June 10 | Dr. Robert Smith and William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous |
| June 12 | Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15 hours in Senate's longest speech on record (150,000 words) |
| June 12 | Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco, Bolivia vs Paraguay |
| June 13 | Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs vs. Somerset |
| June 13 | James J Braddock beats Max Baer in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| June 14 | Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ends |
| June 16 | U.S. Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal" |
| June 23 | Anthony Eden offers Mussolini, Somalian harbor |
| June 25 | Joe Louis defeats Primo Carnera at Yankee Stadium |
| June 26 | Andrew Sandham's 100th FC hundred, 103 vs. Hants |
| June 26 | Lloyd Waner sets record of 18 putouts in center in doubleheader |
| June 26 | SDAP and CPH achieve majority in city council in Amsterdam |
| June 26 | Work service for recent graduate obligatory in Germany |
| June 27 | Danno O'Mahoney beats Jim Londos in Boston, to become wrestling champ |
| June 28 | Earl Averill's consecutive-game streak ends at 673 |
| June 28 | Franklin D. Roosevelt ordersa federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox Kentucky |
| June 30 | Danno O'Mahoney beats Ed George in Boston, to become wrestling champ |
| July 1 | General Netherlands Persbureau (ANP) forms in Amsterdam |
| July 2 | Great Britain boxers beat U.S. team in 1st International Golden Gloves |
| July 5 | 1st "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcast |
| July 5 | 1st time brothers on opposing teams hit home runs, Tony and Al Cuccunello |
| July 5 | Chicago Cubs are 10 games back in NL, and go on to win the pennant |
| July 5 | Franklin D. Roosevelt signs National Labor Relations Act |
| July 6 | 48th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats H Jacobs (63 36 75) |
| July 6 | Rotterdam architect A van de Steurs Museum Boymans opens |
| July 8 | 3rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-1 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland |
| July 12 | Belgium recognizes Soviet Union |
| July 13 | Richard Strauss resigns as chairman of Reichskulturkammer |
| July 13 | U.S. - Russian commerce treaty takes effect |
| July 16 | 1st automatic parking meter in U.S. installed, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
| July 17 | Variety's famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix" |
| July 18 | Amsterdam city council accept city growth plan through the year 2000 |
| July 20 | 1st broadcast of "Gang Busters" on NBC-radio |
| July 22 | Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia |
| July 24 | 1st greeting telegram sent in Britain |
| July 27 | Floods at Yangtzee Jiang and Hoangh, kills 200,000 |
| July 28 | Belgium's Romain Maes, wins Tour de France |
| July 30 | 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution |
| July 31 | 3rd Dutch government of Colijn sworn in |
| August 7 | 60% of voters agrees to nazism in Danzig (Gdansk) |
| August 11 | Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews |
| August 12 | Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand |
| August 13 | Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum) |
| August 14 | Social Security Act becomes law |
| August 20 | Military coup by General Pons and president Ibarra in Ecuador |
| August 26 | CCC camp opens in Brecksville Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks |
| August 29 | 2nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 5, All-Stars 0 (77,450) |
| August 31 | 1st national skeet championship (Indianapolis) |
| August 31 | Chicago White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleveland Indians, 5-0 |
| August 31 | Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an act prohibiting export of U.S. arms to belligerents |
| August 31 | Russian Aleksei Stachanov digs 6 hours, 105 tons of cabbages |
| August 31 | White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Indians 5-0 |
| September 2 | A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423 |
| September 3 | 1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph) |
| September 3 | Andrew Varipapa sets bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games |
| September 8 | Willy de Supervise swims runs world record 200 m freestyle (2:25.2) |
| September 11 | 49th U.S. Womens Tennis: H H Jacobs beats Sarah H Palfrey Fabyan (62 64) |
| September 11 | U.S. captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year |
| September 12 | 55th U.S. Mens Tennis: Wilmer L Allison beats Sidney B Wood (62 62 63) |
| September 12 | Millionaire Howard Hughes flies his own designed plane at 352.46 mph |
| September 15 | Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship and makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany |
| September 17 | Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina chosen 1st president of Philippines |
| September 22 | Boston Braves lose NL record 110th game of year en route to 115 |
| September 25 | Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset," premieres in New York City |
| September 27 | Chicago Cubs win 21st consecutive game and clinch NL pennant |
| September 29 | 5th Ryder Cup: U.S., 9-3 at Ridgewood CC NJ |
| September 30 | Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" premieres in Boston |
| October 2 | Mussolini's Italian armys attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
| October 2 | NY Hayden Planetarium, 4th in U.S., opens |
| October 3 | Italy invades Ethiopia |
| October 6 | Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia |
| October 6 | Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches |
| October 7 | Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series |
| October 8 | Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie and Harriet) |
| October 10 | Coup under General Giorgios Kondylis in favor of Greek monarchy |
| October 10 | George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" opens on Broadway |
| October 10 | League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia |
| October 10 | "Porgy and Bess," by George Gershwin, New York premiere |
| October 12 | Cole Porters musical "Jubilee," premieres in New York City |
| October 15 | NHL's St. Louis Eagles fold |
| October 17 | Pacific Assoc of AAU votes not to participate in Berlin Olympics |
| October 19 | Mao Tse Tung's army reaches Shanxi |
| October 20 | 400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid |
| October 20 | Anti-fascist People front forms in Brussels |
| October 20 | Hank Greenberg is named AL MVP by the BBWAA, Wes Ferrell is runner-up |
| October 20 | Mao Tse Tung and his Communist forces ended their "Long March" at Yan'an, in Shaanxi China |
| October 21 | Hank Greenberg selected AL MVP unanimously |
| October 22 | 18th PGA Championship: Johnny Revolta at Twin Hills CC Oklahoma City |
| October 23 | Gabby Hartnett selected NL MVP |
| October 23 | Johnny Revolta wins PGA golf tournament |
| October 24 | Judge Landis fines ump George Moriarty, Cubs manager Charlie Grimm and Chicago players W English, B Jurges and B Herman for actions in World Series |
| October 25 | Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie and Jacmel Haiti |
| October 27 | SDAP and NVV launchs "Plan for Work" in Utrect Netherlands |
| October 28 | Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End," premieres in New York City |
| November 1 | T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral," premieres in London |
| November 3 | George II returns to Greece and regains monarchy |
| November 3 | Kitei Son runs world record marathon (2:26:42) |
| November 5 | Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of M to admit (black) Donald Murray |
| November 5 | Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly |
| November 6 | 1st test flight of British Hurricane aircraft |
| November 6 | English prince Henry (under George V) weds Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott |
| November 6 | Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane |
| November 7 | 23rd CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Winnipegs defeats Hamilton Tigers, 18-12 |
| November 9 | Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms |
| November 9 | Japan invades Shanghai China |
| November 11 | Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over SD |
| November 13 | Anti-British riots in Egypt |
| November 14 | Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims Philippine Islands a free commonwealth |
| November 14 | Nazi's deprive German Jews of their citizenship |
| November 15 | Commonwealth of Philippines inaugurated |
| November 16 | Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Jumbo," premieres in New York City |
| November 21 | 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper) |
| November 21 | Jean Giraudoux' "La Guerre de Troie n'Aura," premieres in Paris |
| November 22 | China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight |
| November 24 | King George II returns to Greece after 12 years |
| November 25 | Resident Institution for Social History (IISG) forms in Amsterdam |
| November 29 | Michael Savage becomes 1st Labour premier of New Zealand |
| December 1 | Austria has world's 1st Day of Postage Stamp |
| December 4 | 1,200 at St. Joseph's College (Philadelphia) enroll in anticommunism class |
| December 5 | 1st coml hydroponics operation established (Montebello California) |
| December 7 | CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Ham Tigers, 18-12 at Hamilton |
| December 10 | A's sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for $150,000 |
| December 10 | White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000 |
| December 14 | Test Cricket debut of "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith vs. South Africa, Durban |
| December 15 | Detroit Lions win NFL championship |
| December 15 | Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Aljechin |
| December 18 | Bradman scores 117 in his 1st Shield cricket match for South Australia |
| December 18 | Edward Benes becomes president of Czechoslovakia |
| December 20 | Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii |
| December 22 | Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura |
| December 24 | Bradman scores 233 in 191 minutes, SA vs. Queensland, 28 fours 1 six |
| December 26 | Stalin views Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady Macbeth" |
| December 28 | W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in New York City |
| December 30 | Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia |
| December 31 | Charles Darrow patents Monopoly |
| December 31 | CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party |
