| January 2 | Bradman scores 107 SA vs. Victoria, his 4th consecutive century |
| January 3 | Gene Cox becomes 1st girl page in U.S. House of Representatives |
| January 4 | Frieda Wunderlich elected 1st woman dean of a U.S. graduate school |
| January 4 | Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration |
| January 7 | U.S. worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916) |
| January 10 | Bradman hits 186 SA vs. Qld before Christ catches him at short-leg |
| January 13 | Belgian premier signs Burgos-treaty for trade relations with Franco |
| January 14 | All commercial ferry service to East Bay ends |
| January 14 | Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica |
| January 15 | 1st NFL pro bowl, New York Giants beat All Stars 13-10 in Wrigley Field |
| January 15 | Municipal Railway and Market St. RR begin service to Transbay Terminal |
| January 16 | Comic strip "Superman" debuts |
| January 17 | Ed Barrow is elected Yankee president succeeding deceased J Ruppert |
| January 18 | SA wicketkeeper Bradman gets his 6th straight ton, 135* vs. NSW |
| January 19 | Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 sec |
| January 20 | Charles Ives' 1st Sonate "Concord," premieres |
| January 20 | Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews |
| January 21 | George Kaufman and Moss Hart's "American Way," premieres in New York City |
| January 21 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer |
| January 21 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee |
| January 22 | Aquatic Park, near Fisherman's Wharf, SF, is dedicated |
| January 22 | Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University |
| January 24 | 30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion Chile |
| January 24 | Eddie Collins, Willie Keeler and George Sisler elected to Hall of Fame |
| January 24 | Spanish government moves to Figueras |
| January 25 | Earthquake hits Chillan Chile, 10,000 killed |
| January 25 | Joe Louis KOs John Henry Lewis in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
| January 26 | Federal Hall National Monument established |
| January 26 | Filming begins on "Gone With the Wind" |
| January 26 | Franco conquers Barcelona |
| January 30 | Heavy aftershocks destroy some of Chile |
| January 30 | Hitler calls for extermination of European Jews |
| February 4 | Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-minute mile beyond human effort |
| February 6 | Spanish government flees to France |
| February 9 | Belgian Spaak government falls |
| February 14 | Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind |
| February 15 | German battleship Bismarck was launched |
| February 15 | Lillian Hellman's "Little Foxes," premieres in New York City |
| February 17 | Katwijk soccer team forms |
| February 18 | Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island |
| February 21 | Belgian government of Pierlot forms |
| February 22 | Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain |
| February 23 | Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ |
| February 24 | Roy Harris' 3rd Symphony, premieres in Boston |
| February 25 | 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden |
| February 27 | Belgian government of Pierlot falls |
| February 27 | English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire |
| February 27 | France recognizes Franco's regime in Spain |
| February 27 | Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes |
| February 28 | Great Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain |
| March 2 | Eugenio Pacelli chosen as Pope Pius XII |
| March 2 | Massachusetts Legislature vote to ratify the Bill of Rights - 147 years late |
| March 7 | Glamour magazine begins publishing |
| March 7 | Guy Lombardo and Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne" |
| March 8 | Lenore Coffee and William Joyce Cowan's "Family Portrait," premieres |
| March 10 | 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India |
| March 12 | Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies |
| March 14 | England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day |
| March 14 | Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia |
| March 15 | Hitler occupies Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia); Slovakia independ |
| March 16 | Germany occupies Czechoslovakia |
| March 16 | Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine |
| March 16 | NHL record 10 goals in 1 period-New York Rangers (7), New York Americans (3) and a record 26 points in the 3rd period |
| March 20 | 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania |
| March 21 | Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland |
| March 22 | Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany |
| March 25 | Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart |
| March 27 | 1st NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: University of Oregon beats OH State 46-33 |
| March 28 | Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down |
| March 28 | Philip Barry's "Philadelphia Story," premieres in New York City |
| March 28 | Renaissance Big 5 win 1st pro basketball championship |
| March 28 | Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco |
| March 31 | Britain and France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany |
| April 1 | U.S. recognizes Franco government in Spain at end of Spanish civil war Pope Pius XII congratulates Generalissimo Franco's victory in Spain |
| April 2 | 6th Golf Masters Championship: Ralph Guldahl wins, shooting a 279 |
| April 4 | Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq |
| April 5 | Membership in Hitler Youth becomes obligatory |
| April 6 | Great Britain and Poland sign military pact |
| April 6 | U.S. and U.K. agree on joint control of Canton and Enderbury Island in the Pacific |
| April 7 | Italy invades Albania |
| April 8 | ACV soccer team forms in Axes |
| April 8 | King Zog I of Albania, flees |
| April 9 | Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at Lincoln Memorial |
| April 10 | Colijn's Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews |
| April 10 | Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania |
| April 11 | Hungary leaves League of Nations |
| April 13 | W Saroyan's "My Heart's in the Highlands," premieres in New York City |
| April 14 | John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" published |
| April 15 | Albert Lebrun elected president of France |
| April 16 | Stalin requests British, French and Russian anti-nazi pact |
| April 16 | Stanley Cup: Boston Bruins beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1 |
| April 17 | Joe Louis KOs Jack Roper in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
| April 17 | SN Behrman's "No Time for Comedy," premieres in New York City |
| April 17 | Stalin signs British-France-Russian anti-nazi pact |
| April 18 | Franz von Papen becomes German ambassador in Turkey |
| April 18 | Hubert Pierlot forms Belgian government |
| April 19 | 43rd Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of RI in 2:28:51.8 |
| April 19 | Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late) |
| April 20 | New York World's Fair opens |
| April 20 | Ted Williams' 1st hit (off of Yankee Red Ruffing) a double |
| April 23 | 1st performance of Bela Bartok's 2nd Concerto for violin |
| April 23 | Boston Red Sox Ted Williams hits his 1st home run |
| April 28 | Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect |
| April 29 | Whitestone Bridge connecting Bronx and Queens opens |
| April 30 | NBC/RCA 1st public TV demo with Franklin D. Roosevelt at opening of New York World's Fair |
| April 30 | Tropicana ballet of Havana Cuba, forms |
| May 1 | Batman comics hit street |
| May 1 | Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling) |
| May 2 | Lou Gehrig ends 2,130 consecutive game streak, Yankees beat Tigers 22-2 |
| May 5 | Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky |
| May 6 | 1st performance of Honegger/Claudel's "Jeanne d'Arc Ouch B-cher" |
| May 6 | 65th Kentucky Derby: James Stout aboard Johnstown wins in 2:03.4 |
| May 7 | Germany and Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis |
| May 9 | Catholic church beatified the 1st Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha |
| May 13 | 65th Preakness: George Seabo aboard Challedon wins in 1:59.8 |
| May 13 | SS St. Louis departs Hamburg with 937 Jews fugitives |
| May 16 | 1st AL night game, Philadelphia Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10) |
| May 16 | Food stamps are 1st issued |
| May 17 | 1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball |
| May 19 | Churchill signs British-Russian anti-nazi pact |
| May 20 | 1st regular transatlantic airmail (New York to Marsseille France) |
| May 20 | "3 Little Fishies," by Kay Kyser hits #1 |
| May 20 | Pan Am begins transatlantic passenger and air mail service |
| May 22 | Hitler and Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel" |
| May 23 | British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented |
| May 23 | British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949 |
| May 23 | Dmitri Shostakovich appointed professor at conservatory of Leningrad |
| May 23 | Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland |
| May 23 | Submarine Squalis sank off Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 26 die |
| May 25 | Carl Storck becomes 2nd NFL president |
| June 1 | 1st boxing match to be televised, Lon Nova defeats Max Baer |
| June 1 | 1st night game at Phil's Shribe Park (Pirates 5, Phillies 2) |
| June 1 | British sub "Thetis" sinks in Liverpool Bay with all 99 aboard |
| June 1 | Retired German Colonel General Gerd von Runstedt returns to service |
| June 3 | 71st Belmont: James Stout aboard Johnstown wins in 2:29.6 |
| June 3 | Beer Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Will Glahe |
| June 6 | New York Giants beat Reds 17-3, with 5 home runs in 4th inning |
| June 6 | New York supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared dead |
| June 7 | 1st king and queen of England to visit U.S., George VI and Elizabeth |
| June 8 | British king George VI visits U.S. |
| June 11 | King and Queen of England taste 1st "hot dogs" at FDR's party |
| June 12 | 43rd U.S. Golf Open: Byron Nelson shoots a 284 at Philadelphia CC in Philadelphia |
| June 12 | Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York |
| June 20 | Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants |
| June 21 | Doctors reveal Lou Gehrig has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
| June 21 | New York Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement |
| June 22 | Future Queen Elizabeth of England meets future husband Philip |
| June 23 | Bronko Nagurski beats Lou Thesz in Houston, to become wrestling champ |
| June 23 | France turns over Sanjak of Alexandretta (Hatay) to Turkey |
| June 24 | Pan Am's 1st U.S. to England flight |
| June 27 | 1st night game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (Indians 5, Tigers 0) |
| June 27 | Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 2-2, in 23 innings |
| June 27 | Headley scores a cricket century in each innings vs. England at Lord's |
| June 28 | Joe Louis TKOs Tony Galent in 4 for heavyweight boxing title |
| June 28 | Pan Am opens southern route transatlantic air service, Dixie Clipper |
| June 28 | Yankees hit 13 home runs, sweep A's 23-2 and 10-0 |
| June 29 | 4th Dutch government of Colijn falls |
| June 29 | Dixie Clipper completes 1st commercial plane flight to Europe |
| June 30 | Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde |
| July 3 | Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler |
| July 3 | Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech |
| July 4 | Red Sox Jim Tabor hits 2 grand slams in 1 game |
| July 4 | Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day |
| July 6 | German Nazi's close last Jewish enterprises |
| July 7 | 52nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Kay Stammers (62 60) |
| July 8 | 59th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Bobby Riggs beats E Cooke (26 86 36 63 62) |
| July 11 | 7th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Yankee Stadium, New York New York Yankee/AL maanager Joe McCarthy starts 6 Yankees |
| July 13 | Frank Sinatra made his recording debut |
| July 15 | Clara Adams, New York City, is 1st woman to complete round world flight |
| July 17 | 22nd PGA Championship: Henry Picard at Pomonok CC Flushing NY |
| July 19 | 1st use of fiberglass sutures, R P Scholz, St. Louis, Missouri |
| July 19 | Dr. Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures |
| July 22 | 1st black woman judge, Jane Matilda Bolin, New York City |
| July 25 | 5th and last Dutch government of Colijn, forms |
| July 25 | New York Yankee Atley Donald sets AL rookie record with 12 consecutive win |
| July 26 | Yankee catcher Bill Dickey hits 3 consecutive home runs |
| July 28 | 5th Dutch government of Colijn falls |
| July 30 | Belgium Sylvere Maes wins 33rd Tour de France |
| August 2 | Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers |
| August 3 | Jean Genets "Ondine," premieres in Paris |
| August 6 | 1st broadcast of "Dinah Shore Show" on NBC-radio |
| August 10 | 2nd Dutch De Geer government forms (1st with Social Democrats) |
| August 11 | Sergei Rachmaninovs last appearance in Europe |
| August 13 | Sabotage suspected in crash of 'City of San Francisco' |
| August 13 | Yankees set AL shutout margin with 21-0 victory over A's |
| August 14 | 1st night games at Comiskey Park (White Sox 5, Browns 2) |
| August 15 | In 1st night game at Comiskey Park, Sox beat Browns 5-2 |
| August 15 | "Wizard of Oz" premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood |
| August 17 | "Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY |
| August 19 | 37.6 cm rainfall at Tuckerton, New Jersey (state record) |
| August 20 | 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc) |
| August 20 | Russian offensive under General Zjoekov against Japanese invasion in Mongolia |
| August 22 | Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion |
| August 22 | Premier De Geer recalls Dutch vacationers in Black Forest |
| August 23 | John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH (593.48 KPH) at Bonneville Flats |
| August 23 | Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: East Europe divided between Hitler and Stalin |
| August 23 | Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided) |
| August 23 | U.S.S.R. and Germany sign a non-agression pact |
| August 24 | Germany and U.S.S.R. sign 10-year non-aggression pact |
| August 26 | 1st major league baseball telecast-Reds beat Brooklyn Dodgers (W2XBS New York) |
| August 26 | Belgium mobilizes |
| August 26 | Kroatia gets autonomous status |
| August 27 | Erich Warsitz makes 1st jet-propelled flight (in a Heinkel He-178) |
| August 27 | Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion |
| August 27 | Nazi Germany demands Danzig and Polish corridor |
| August 27 | Queen Wilhelmina receives German ambassador Grave Zech |
| August 28 | "Monty" becomes commandant of 3rd "Iron" Infantry division |
| August 28 | Netherland mobilizes |
| August 28 | Sammy Fain/Jack Yellen's musical "George White's Scandals" premieres |
| August 29 | Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WW II |
| August 30 | 6th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Giants 9, All-Stars 0 (81,456) |
| August 30 | General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army |
| August 30 | Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet |
| August 30 | New York Yankee Atley Donald pitches a baseball a record 94.7 mph (152 kph) |
| August 30 | Poland mobilizes |
| August 31 | Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia |
| August 31 | Staged "Polish" assault on radio station in Gleiwitz |
| September 1 | Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill |
| September 1 | Last day of 1st-class cricket in England for 6 years |
| September 1 | Physical Review publishes 1st paper to deal with "black holes" |
| September 1 | Switzerland proclaims neutrality |
| September 1 | WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig |
| September 3 | Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada |
| September 3 | German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia |
| September 3 | Great Britain and France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland |
| September 3 | Yankees beat Red Sox on a forfeit, their 4th forfeit win |
| September 4 | Dutch 2nd Chamber affirms Netherlands in a State of War |
| September 4 | German submarine U-30 sinks British passenger ship Athenia |
| September 4 | German troops move into Danzig |
| September 4 | Netherlands and Belgium declare neutrality |
| September 4 | Polish ghetto of Mir is exterminated |
| September 4 | RAF bombs Wilhelmshafen |
| September 5 | 34th Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Haverford (3-2) |
| September 5 | Franklin D. Roosevelt declares U.S. neutrality at start of WW II in Europe |
| September 6 | 1st German air attack on Great Britain in WW II |
| September 6 | South Africa declares war on nazi-Germany |
| September 7 | Radio New York Worldwide-WRUL begins radio transmission |
| September 8 | Franklin D. Roosevelt declares "limited national emergency" due to war in Europe |
| September 8 | General Von Reichenaus pantzer division reaches suburbs of Warsaw |
| September 8 | Indians Bob Feller, 20, is youngest pitcher to win 20 games |
| September 8 | Yankees beat Red Sox 4-1 in 7, game called because of lightning |
| September 9 | Nazi army reaches Warsaw |
| September 10 | Canada declares war on Germany |
| September 10 | In WW II, Canada declared war on Germany |
| September 11 | Battle of Kutno-pocket: Germans advance to Warsaw |
| September 11 | British submarine Triton torpedoes British submarine Oxley |
| September 11 | Iraq and Saudi Arabia declare war on nazi-Germany |
| September 14 | British fleet attacks German U-39 boat |
| September 14 | Minister Winston Churchill visits Scapa Flow |
| September 16 | 53rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (60 810 64) |
| September 16 | 59th U.S. Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats S Welby van Horn (64 62 64) |
| September 16 | New York Yankees clinch their 11th and 4th successive pennant |
| September 17 | German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die |
| September 17 | Poland's president Moscicki and Prime Minister Slawoj-Skladkowski flee to Romania |
| September 17 | Russia invades Eastern Poland, takes 217,000 Poles prisoner |
| September 17 | Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II |
| September 18 | Polish government of Moscicki flees to Romania |
| September 19 | British Expeditionary Force reaches France |
| September 19 | Lord Haw-Haw becomes radio host of Reichsrundfunk Berlin |
| September 19 | Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland |
| September 20 | British fleet takes German U-27 boat |
| September 20 | Joe Louis KOs Bob Pastor in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| September 21 | Reinhard Heydrich meets in Berlin to discuss final solution of Jews |
| September 23 | Cookie Lavagetto goes 6 for 6-Dodgers get 27 hits and beat Phillies 22-4 |
| September 25 | German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs |
| September 25 | Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra and Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I |
| September 26 | German seaplane shoots KLM-aircraft (1 killed) |
| September 27 | Warsaw Poland, surrenders to Germans after 19 days of resistance |
| September 27 | White Sox host 1st "day-night" doubleheader, lose to Cleveland, 5-2 and 7-5 |
| September 28 | Estonia accepts Soviet military bases |
| September 28 | Final broadcast of The Fleischmann Hour was heard on radio |
| September 28 | Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) and gives Lithuania to U.S.S.R., last Polish troops surrender |
| September 30 | 1st televised college football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at New York City) |
| September 30 | 41 U-boats sunk this month (153,000 ton) |
| September 30 | Germany and Russia agree to partition Poland |
| September 30 | White Sox reliever Clint Brown sets record of 61st relief appearance |
| October 1 | Churchill calls Soviets "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" |
| October 2 | Birdbaths installed in Union Square, SF |
| October 3 | Lemmer-Urk Dike closes |
| October 4 | Last Polish troops surrender |
| October 6 | Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France and Britain |
| October 6 | Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem |
| October 8 | Germany annexes Western Poland |
| October 8 | New York Yankees sweep Reds in 36th World Series, 4th straight WS win |
| October 11 | Albert Einstein informs Franklin D. Roosevelt of possibilities of atomic bomb |
| October 11 | Bucky Harris signs to manage Washington again |
| October 11 | Gertrude Lawrence's "Skylark," premieres in New York City |
| October 11 | NAACP organized Legal Defense and Education Fund |
| October 14 | BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) formed |
| October 14 | German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed |
| October 14 | Sugar rationed in Netherlands |
| October 15 | LaGuardia Airport opens in New York City |
| October 15 | Yeshiva of Mir closes after 124 years |
| October 16 | Sugar rationing begins in Netherlands |
| October 18 | R Rodgers and Lorenz Harts "Too Many Girls," premieres in New York City |
| October 19 | Goering begins plunder through Nazi's occupied areas |
| October 20 | "All the Things You Are" recorded by Tommy Dorsey Orchestra |
| October 20 | Pope Pius XII publishes his 1st encyclical Summi pontificatus |
| October 22 | 1st TV NFL game-Eagles vs Dodgers |
| October 24 | Benny Goodman records "Let's Dance" |
| October 24 | Joe DiMaggio wins AL MVP, Jimmie Foxx is runner-up |
| October 24 | Nazi require wearing of star of David |
| October 24 | Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (Wilmington Delaware) |
| October 25 | George Kaufman/Moss Hart's "Man Who Came to Dinner," premieres in New York City |
| October 25 | Nylon stockings go on sale in U.S. for 1st time |
| October 25 | William Saroyan's "Time of Your Life," premieres in New York City |
| October 26 | Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service |
| October 28 | Anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia |
| October 28 | Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down above Scotland |
| October 29 | Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure) |
| October 29 | NHL Babe Seibert Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3 |
| October 30 | German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound and Charles Forbes aboard |
| October 30 | U.S.S.R. and Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews |
| October 31 | 27 U boats sunk this month (135,000 ton) |
| November 1 | 1st animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed |
| November 1 | 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry |
| November 1 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sertum laetitiae |
| November 3 | Clare Booth's "Margin for Error," premieres in New York City |
| November 4 | 1st air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Ill |
| November 4 | U.S. allows "cash and carry" arms sales during WW II |
| November 6 | WGY-TV (Schenectady, New York), 1st coml TV station, begins service |
| November 6 | WRGB TV channel 6 in Schenectady-Alby-Troy, New York (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| November 8 | Failed assassination attempt on Hitler in Burgerbraukeller, Munich |
| November 8 | H Lindsay and R Crouse' "Life with Father," premieres in New York City |
| November 9 | "Ninotchka," with Greta Garbo premieres |
| November 9 | Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest Lawrence for the cyclotron |
| November 9 | Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 English agents |
| November 11 | Kate Smith 1st sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" |
| November 12 | Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David |
| November 14 | Oil refinery fire kills 500 and destroys Lagunillas, Venezuela |
| November 15 | Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia |
| November 15 | Franklin D. Roosevelt lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. |
| November 15 | Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews |
| November 15 | Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check |
| November 16 | Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail |
| November 16 | German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland |
| November 17 | German U-boat torpedoes passenger ship |
| November 17 | Jerome Kern/Hammerstein II's "Very Warm for May," premieres in New York City |
| November 18 | Netherlands KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die |
| November 19 | Don Lash wins 6th straight AAU cross-country 10K championship |
| November 23 | Nazi Governor of Poland Hans Frank requires Jews to wear a blue star |
| November 26 | 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border |
| November 27 | Maxwell Anderson's "Key Largo," premieres in New York City |
| November 28 | Nazi Governor-General of Poland, Hans Frank organizes Judenrat |
| November 28 | Soviet government revokes Russian-Finnish non-attack treaty |
| November 29 | Cor Klint swims world record 200 m backstroke (2:38.8) |
| November 29 | U.S.S.R. drops diplomatic relations with Finland |
| November 30 | 21 U boats sunk this month (52,000 ton) |
| November 30 | Paul Osborn's "Mornings at 7," premieres in New York City |
| November 30 | U.S.S.R. invades Finland, bombs Helsinki |
| December 1 | SS-Fuhrer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews |
| December 2 | British Imperial Airways and British Airways merge to form BOAC |
| December 2 | NY's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago lands, 1 minute after midnight |
| December 3 | Dmitri Sjostakovitsj's 6th Symphony, premieres |
| December 6 | 5th Heisman Trophy Award: Nile Kinnick, Iowa (HB) |
| December 6 | Cole Porter's musical "Du Barry was a Lady," premieres in New York City |
| December 7 | Lou Gehrig, 36, is elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
| December 7 | William Walton's violinist concert premieres in Cleveland |
| December 9 | 27th Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 8-7 |
| December 9 | Russian air raid on Helsinki |
| December 10 | Green Bay Packers win NFL championship, beat New York Giants 27-0 |
| December 10 | KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary |
| December 11 | New anti Jewish measurements in Poland, proclaimed |
| December 12 | Russian Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die |
| December 13 | Battle at La Plata - 3 British cruisers vs German Graf Spee |
| December 14 | Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union |
| December 15 | 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware |
| December 15 | "Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta |
| December 15 | Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo/Curacao |
| December 16 | Bradman scores 251* SA vs. NSW, 271 minutes, 38 fours 2 sixes |
| December 17 | German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay |
| December 18 | Finnish army recaptures Aglajarvi |
| December 19 | Russian air and ground attack against Finnish positions near Summa |
| December 20 | Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service |
| December 21 | Hitler named Adolf Eichmann leader of "Referat IV B" |
| December 22 | 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany |
| December 22 | 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany |
| December 22 | Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 vs. Queensland |
| December 22 | Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo |
| December 23 | Finnish counter offensive at Summa |
| December 23 | South Australia score 7-821 against Queensland |
| December 25 | Grimmett and Ward rip through Qld except Bill Brown (156) |
| December 25 | Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer |
| December 26 | Earthquake in East Anatolia Turkey |
| December 26 | Mine strikes in Borinage Brussels |
| December 27 | 1st American skimobiles, North Conway, New Hampshire |
| December 27 | Between 20,000 and 40,000 die in magnitude 8 quake (Erzincam Turkey) |
| December 27 | Earthquake in Turkey, about 50,000 die |
| December 30 | Bradman scores 267 SA vs. Vic, world record 34th double cricket century |
| December 30 | O'Reilly takes 14-45 (8-23 and 6-22) as NSW crush Qld in 2 days |
| December 31 | 25 U boats sunk this month (81,000 ton) |
