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Birthdays

January 1 - James Sinegal, American businessman
January 2 - Roger Miller, American singer (d. 1992)
January 3 - David Vine, British sports commentator
January 5 - Florence King, American humorist
January 6 - Rubén Amaro, Sr.
January 6 - Darlene Hard, U.S. tennis player
January 6 - Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo, President of Uruguay
January 7 - Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and photographer
January 7 - G. Robert Blakey, American attorney
January 8 - Zdeněk Mácal, Czech conductor
January 8 - Robert May, Baron May of Oxford
January 9 - Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer
January 10 - Burnum Burnum, Australian Aboriginal activist
January 10 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian (d. 2002)
January 10 - Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist and radio astronomer
January 10 - Al Goldstein, American publisher and pornographer
January 13 - Renato Bruson, Italian operatic baritone
January 19 - Ziaur Rahman, President of Bangladesh (d. 1981)
January 21 - Koji Hashimoto, Japanese film director (d. 2005)
January 22 - Alan J. Heeger, American chemist
January 22 - Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002)
January 23 - Jerry Kramer, American football player
January 23 - Bob Moses, American educator and 1960s Civil Rights Movement activist
January 24 - Doug Kershaw, American musician
January 25 - Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)
January 26 - Sal Buscema, American comic book artist
January 27 - Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
January 27 - Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist
January 28 - Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer
January 28 - Alan Alda, American actor
January 29 - James Jamerson, American bass guitarist for Motown Records (d. 1983)
January 30 - F. Vernon Boozer, American politician
January 30 - Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker (d. 2005)
January 30 - Horst Jankowski, German popular pianist (d. 1998)
February 1 - Azie Taylor Morton, 35th Treasurer of the United States (d. 2003)
February 2 - Duane Jones, American actor
February 4 - David Brenner, American comedian
February 4 - Gary Conway, American actor
February 6 - Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player
February 6 - J. Howard Marshall III, American businessman
February 8 - Larry Verne, American singer
February 9 - Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country singer
February 9 - Clive Swift, British actor
February 11 - Burt Reynolds, American actor
February 12 - Joe Don Baker, American actor
February 12 - Paul Shenar, American actor
February 14 - Fanne Foxe, Argentine dancer and focus of a 1974 scandal involving Congressman Wilbur Mills.
February 14 - Andrew Prine, American actor
February 16 - Jill Kinmont, American skier
February 17 - Jim Brown, American football player
February 18 - Jean Auel, American writer
February 18 - Dick Duff, Canadian ice hockey player
February 19 - Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (d. 2006)
February 19 - Marin Sorescu, Romanian writer and novelist (d. 1997)
February 20 - Marj Dusay, American actress
February 20 - Larry Hovis, American actor (d. 2003)
February 20 - Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball player and coach
February 21 - Barbara Jordan, American politician (d. 1996)
February 22 - J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
February 22 - Ernie K-Doe, American singer (d. 2001)
February 27 - Ron Barassi, Australian rules footballer
February 27 - Roger Mahony, fourth Archbishop of Los Angeles
February 29 - Jack Lousma, American astronaut
February 29 - Henri Richard, Canadian ice hockey player
February 29 - Alex Rocco, American actor
March 1 - Monique Bégin, French-Canadian politician
March 1 - Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (d. 1997)
March 4 - Jim Clark, OBE
March 4 - Aribert Reimann, German composer
March 5 - Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
March 5 - Dean Stockwell, American actor
March 6 - Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (d. 2002)
March 6 - Marion Barry Jr., American politician
March 6 - Jean Boht, English actress
March 8 - Gábor Szabó, Hungarian guitarist (d. 1982)
March 9 - Tom Sestak, American football player (d. 1987)
March 9 - Mickey Gilley, American musician and singer
March 10 - Sepp Blatter, Swiss ice hockey and football official
March 10 - Alfredo Zitarrosa, Uruguayan Vocals and journalist (d. 1989)
March 11 - Antonin Scalia, American Supreme Court Justice
March 12 - Patrick Procktor, English artist (d. 2003)
March 14 - Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer
March 15 - Paul Zindel, American author and educator (d. 2003)
March 15 - Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (d. 1986)
March 15 - David Andrews, Irish politician
March 16 - Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter (d. 2001)
March 17 - Ladislav Kupkovic, Slovakian composer
March 17 - Ken Mattingly, American astronaut
March 18 - Frederik Willem de Klerk, President of South Africa
March 19 - Ursula Andress, Swiss actress
March 19 - Birthe Wilke, Danish singer
March 20 - Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican Reggae artist
March 20 - Vaughn Meader, American comedian (d. 2004)
March 21 - Ed Broadbent, Canadian politician
March 21 - Mike Westbrook, British jazz composer
March 22 - Ron Carey, American labor leader
March 22 - Roger Whittaker, British singer
March 24 - David Suzuki, Canadian scientist and environmentalist
March 28 - Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and politician
March 29 - Judith Guest, American author
March 29 - Mogens Camre, Danish politician
March 31 - Bob Pulford, Canadian ice hockey player
March 31 - Marge Piercy, American writer
March 31 - Dokumamushi Sandayu, Japanese actor
April 1 - Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, Swiss politician
April 3 - Scott LaFaro, American musician (d. 1961)
April 3 - Jimmy McGriff, American jazz organist
April 5 - John Kelly, Irish republican politician (d. 2007)
April 7 - Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist
April 10 - John Madden, American football coach and broadcaster
April 14 - Kenneth Mars, American actor
April 14 - Frank Serpico, American policeman
April 14 - Bobby Nichols, American professional golfer
April 15 - Raymond Poulidor, French cyclist
April 18 - Tommy Ivo, American race car driver
April 19 - Wilfried Martens, Prime Minister of Belgium
April 20 - Pat Roberts, American politician
April 21 - James Dobson, American evangelist
April 22 - Glen Campbell, American musician
April 22 - Pierre Hétu, French Canadian conductor and pianist (d. 1998)
April 23 - Roy Orbison, American singer and musician (d. 1988)
April 24 - Jill Ireland, British actress (d. 1990)
April 27 - Geoffrey Shovelton, English opera singer
April 29 - Zubin Mehta, Indian-born conductor
April 29 - April Stevens, American singer
April 29 - Lane Smith, American actor (d. 2005)
May 2 - Engelbert Humperdinck, Indian-born singer
May 2 - Michael Rabin, American violinist (d. 1972)
May 4 - El Cordobés, Spanish matador
May 5 - Patrick Gowers, British composer
May 6 - Bernard Lemaire, French Canadian businessman (Cascades)
May 9 - Albert Finney, British actor
May 9 - Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician
May 10 - Gary Owens, American actor and announcer
May 11 - Carla Bley, American musician and composer
May 12 - Guillermo Endara, President of Panama
May 12 - Tom Snyder, American television personality (d. 2007)
May 12 - Frank Stella, American painter
May 14 - Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973)
May 14 - Charlie Gracie, American singer
May 14 - Waheeda Rehman, Indian actress
May 15 - Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian-born actress
May 15 - Wavy Gravy, American clown and activist
May 15 - Ralph Steadman, British cartoonist
May 15 - Paul Zindel, American writer (d. 2003)
May 16 - Roy Hudd, English radio and television actor
May 16 - Karl Lehmann, German Catholic cardinal
May 17 - Dennis Hopper, American actor and director
May 20 - Anthony Zerbe, American actor
May 20 - Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican reggae and dub artist
May 21 - Günter Blobel, German biologist
May 22 - M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (d. 2005)
May 23 - Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer
May 23 - Charles Kimbrough, American actor
May 24 - Harold Budd, American musician
May 25 - Tom T. Hall, American singer and songwriter
May 27 - Louis Gossett Jr., American actor
May 27 - Marcel Masse, Canadian politician
May 28 - Betty Shabazz, American civil rights activist (d. 1997)
May 28 - Claude Forget, French-Canadian politician
May 30 - Keir Dullea, American actor
May 30 - Ruta Lee, Canadian actress
June 1 - Gerald Scarfe, British illustrator
June 3 - Jim Gentile, baseball player
June 3 - Larry McMurtry, American author
June 4 - Bruce Dern, American actor
June 5 - Connie Hines, American actress
June 6 - Levi Stubbs, American musician (The Four Tops)
June 6 - A. Venkatesh Naik, Indian politician
June 8 - James Darren, American actor and singer
June 8 - Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist
June 9 - Mick O'Dwyer, Gaelic footballer and manager
June 11 - Jud Strunk, American musician and comedian (d. 1981)
June 11 - Chad Everett, American actor
June 14 - Renaldo "Obie" Benson, singer (The Four Tops) (d. 2005)
June 14 - Irmelin Sandman Lilius, Finnish actor
June 15 - Claude Brasseur, French actor
June 15 - William Joseph Levada, American Catholic prelate
June 17 - Ken Loach, British film director
June 18 - Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (d. 1992)
June 19 - Tommy DeVito, American musician and singer
June 19 - Shirley Goodman, American singer (d. 2005)
June 19 - Marisa Galvany, American soprano
June 20 - Billy Guy, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2002)
June 22 - Kris Kristofferson, American singer/songwriter and actor
June 22 - Hermeto Pascoal, Brazilian musician
June 23 - Costas Simitis, Prime Minister of Greece
June 25 - Jusuf Habibie, President of Indonesia
June 26 - Robert Maclennan, British politician
June 26 - Jean-Claude Cardinal Turcotte, Archbishop of Montreal
June 27 - Lucille Clifton, American poet
June 28 - Chuck Howley, American football player
June 29 - Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player
June 30 - Nancy Dussault, American actress
June 30 - Tony Musante, American actor
June 30 - Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer/songwriter (d. 2002)
July 5 - Shirley Knight, American actress
July 5 - James Mirrlees, Scottish economist
July 6 - Dave Allen, Irish comedian (d. 2005)
July 7 - Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (d. 1980)
July 7 - Jo Siffert, Swiss race car driver (d.1971)
July 9 - Floyd Abrams, First Amendment attorney and advocate
July 9 - June Jordan, American poet
July 9 - André Pronovost, French Canadian ice hockey player
July 9 - Richard Wilson, Scottish actor and director
July 13 - Albert Ayler, American musician (d. 1970)
July 16 - Buddy Merrill, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show)
July 16 - Venkatraman Subramanya, Indian cricketer
July 18 - Ted Harris, Canadian ice hockey player
July 20 - Barbara Mikulski, American politician
July 22 - Tom Robbins, American author
July 23 - Don Drysdale, American baseball player (d. 1993)
July 23 - Anthony Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
July 24 - Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedian
July 24 - Mark Goddard, American actor
July 25 - Gerry Ashmore, British racing driver
July 25 - Glenn Murcutt, Australian architect
July 26 - Mary Millar, English actress (d. 1998)
July 27 - J. Robert Hooper, American politician
July 28 - Russ Jackson, Canadian football player
July 28 - Garfield Sobers, Barbadian West Indies cricketer
July 29 - Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator from North Carolina
July 30 - Buddy Guy, American blues guitarist and singer
July 30 - Infanta Pilar of Spain,
July 31 - Vic Davalillo, Venezuelan baseball player
August 1 - Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer (d. 2008)
August 3 - Edward Petherbridge, English actor
August 4 - Assia Djebar, Algerian writer and filmmaker
August 7 - Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American saxophonist (d. 1977)
August 8 - Keith Barron, English actor
August 8 - Frank Howard, American baseball player
August 9 - Julián Javier, American baseball player
August 9 - Patrick Tse Yin, Hong Kong film director
August 11 - Andre Dubus, American short-story writer (d. 1999)
August 14 - Trevor Bannister, British actor
August 17 - Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Native American musician-actor (d. 2007)
August 18 - Robert Redford, American actor
August 20 - Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist
August 21 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (d. 1999)
August 21 - Radish Tordia, painter of Figurative Art from Georgia
August 22 - Dale Hawkins, American singer and songwriter
August 23 - Henry Lee Lucas, American serial killer (d. 2001)
August 24 - A. S. Byatt, English novelist
August 24 - Kenny Guinn, American Governor
August 26 - Yvette Vickers, American actress
August 27 - Joel Kovel, American politician
August 28 - Don Denkinger, American baseball umpire
August 29 - John McCain, American politician
September 2 - Andrew Grove, American computer chip manufacturer
September 5 - Jonathan Kozol, American writer
September 5 - Bill Mazeroski, American baseball player
September 7 - Buddy Holly, American singer (The Crickets) (d. 1959)
September 7 - Apostolos Kaklamanis, Greek politician
September 11 - Ian Abercrombie, English actor
September 13 - Stefano Delle Chiaie, Italian neo-Nazi
September 14 - Walter Koenig, American actor
September 14 - Ferid Murad, American physician and pharmacologist
September 14 - Harry Danielsen, Norwegian politician
September 19 - Al Oerter, American athlete (d. 2007)
September 21 - Diane Rehm, American radio talk show host for National Public Radio
September 21 - Yuriy Luzhkov, Russian politician
September 21 - Dickey Lee, American singer and songwriter
September 22 - Maurice Evans, English footballer and manager (d. 2000)
September 23 - Valentín Paniagua, Peruvian politician
September 24 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer (d. 1990)
September 25 - Juliet Prowse, South African actress and dancer (d. 1996)
September 26 - Winnie Mandela, South African anti-apartheid activist
September 27 - Don Cornelius, American television host
September 27 - Gordon Honeycombe, British playwright
September 29 - Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy
October 1 - Duncan Edwards, English footballer (d. 1958)
October 1 - Stella Stevens, American actress
October 2 - Dick Barnett, American basketball player
October 3 - Steve Reich, American composer
October 5 - Václav Havel, President of the Czech Republic
October 7 - Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
October 8 - Rona Barrett, American gossip columnist
October 10 - Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist
October 11 - Billy Higgins, American jazz drummer (d. 2001)
October 16 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
October 16 - Akira Machida, Japanese judge
October 16 - Peter Bowles, English actor
October 17 - Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese seismologist
October 19 - Tony Lo Bianco, American actor
October 19 - James Bevel, American activist
October 22 - Bobby Seale, American civil rights activist
October 23 - Philip Kaufman, American film director
October 24 - Bill Wyman, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
October 25 - Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian
October 26 - Shelley Morrison, American actress
October 28 - Charlie Daniels, American musician
October 28 - Carl Davis, American-born musical conductor and composer
October 29 - Akiko Kojima, Japanese model
October 30 - Polina Astakhova, Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2005)
October 31 - Michael Landon, American actor (d. 1991)
November 1 - Eddie Colman, English footballer (d. 1958)
November 2 - Abdullah the Butcher, wrestler
November 2 - Rose Bird, American judge (d. 1999)
November 2 - Jack Starrett, American actor and director (d. 1989)
November 3 - Roy Emerson, Australian tennis champion
November 4 - C. K. Williams, American poet
November 5 - Michael Dertouzos, Greek internet pioneer
November 7 - Dame Gwyneth Jones, Welsh soprano
November 9 - Daniel Robert Graham, American politician
November 9 - Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player (d. 1992)
November 9 - Teddy Infuhr, American former child actor (d. 2007)
November 11 - Jack Keller, American songwriter (d. 2005)
November 12 - Mills Lane, American judge and boxing referee
November 12 - Mort Shuman, American songwriter and singer (d. 1991)
November 14 - Cornell Gunter, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 1990)
November 14 - Freddie Garrity, English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (d. 2006)
November 15 - Wolf Biermann, German writer
November 16 - John Moore, Australian politician
November 17 - Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)
November 18 - Don Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (d. 1995)
November 19 - Dick Cavett, American talk show host
November 19 - Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-born chemist
November 20 - Don DeLillo, American author
November 21 - Victor Chang, Australian physician (d. 1986)
November 22 - Joachim Bißmeier, German actor
November 22 - Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah, Prime Minister of Bahrain
November 23 - Robert Barnard, British mystery writer
November 25 - Trisha Brown, American choreographer and dancer
November 28 - Gary Hart, American politician
November 28 - Celin Romero, Spanish guitarist
November 30 - Abbie Hoffman, American activist (d. 1989)
November 30 - Dmitri Victorovich Anosov, Russian mathematician
December 5 - James Lee Burke, American writer
December 6 - Kenneth Copeland, American televangelist
December 6 - David Ossman, American comedian
December 8 - David Carradine, American actor
December 11 - Taku Yamasaki, Japanese politician
December 13 - His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan (Aga Khan IV), Imam (leader) of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims
December 13 - J. C. Martin, American baseball player
December 16 - Morris Dees, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center
December 17 - Tommy Steele, English singer and actor
December 18 - Malcolm Kirk, English professional wrestler (d. 1987)
December 19 - Marian McKnight, Miss America 1957
December 22 - James Burke, British writer
December 22 - Hector Elizondo, American actor
December 22 - Wojciech Frykowski, Polish actor (d. 1969)
December 23 - Frederic Forrest, American actor
December 25 - HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent,
December 25 - Ismail Merchant, Indian-born film producer (d. 2005)
December 28 - Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (d. 1979)
December 28 - Lawrence Schiller, American journalist
December 29 - Mary Tyler Moore, American actress
December 29 - Ray Nitschke, American football player (d. 1998)

Deaths

January 2 - Sir Francis Newdegate, Governor of Tasmania
January 7 - Guy d'Hardelot, French composer
January 9 - John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1899)
January 15 - Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster
January 16 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (b. 1870)
January 17 - Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian author (b. 1885)
January 18 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer
January 20 - King George V of the United Kingdom, (b. 1865)
February 1 - Georgios Kondylis, general of the Greek army and Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)
February 3 - Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, consort of William of Wied
February 4 - Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (b. 1895)
February 19 - Billy Mitchell, American general and military aviation pioneer (b. 1879)
February 19 - Charles Harding Firth, British historian (b. 1857)
February 20 - Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
February 27 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist
February 27 - Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson (b. 1852)
February 28 - Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist
March 1 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (b. 1871)
March 16 - Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist (b. 1864)
March 18 - Eleftherios Venizelos, Former Prime minister of Greece
March 21 - Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (b. 1865)
March 30 - Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (b. 1895)
April 2 - Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)
April 3 - Bruno Hauptmann, German killer of Charles Lindbergh III (b. 1899)
April 8 - Robert Bárány, Austrian physician
April 9 - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (b. 1855)
April 13 - Milton Brown, American swing bandleader (b. 1903)
April 17 - Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Dutch prime minister (b. 1873)
April 18 - Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (b. 1879)
April 23 - Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (b. 1889)
April 26 - Tammany Young, American actor (b.1886)
April 27 - Karl Pearson, English statistician (b. 1857)
April 28 - King Fuad I of Egypt, (b. 1868)
April 30 - Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (b. 1859)
May 8 - Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (b. 1880)
May 14 - Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, British general (b. 1861)
May 17 - Panagis Tsaldaris, twice Greek prime minister (b. 1868)
June 7 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
June 11 - Robert E. Howard, American author (b. 1906)
June 14 - G. K. Chesterton, English author (b. 1874)
June 14 - Hans Poelzig, German architect (b. 1869)
June 18 - Maxim Gorky, Russian author (b. 1868)
June 22 - Moritz Schlick, Austrian philosopher (b. 1882)
July 11 - James Murray, American actor (b. 1901)
August 2 - Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872)
August 11 - Blas Infante, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1885)
August 15 - Grazia Deledda, Italian writer
August 19 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish author (b. 1898)
September 3 - Nikita Balieff, Armenian vaudevillian and impressario (b. 1876 or 1877)
September 5 - Federico Borrell García, Spanish anarchist soldier during the Spanish Civil War (b. 1912)
September 5 - Gustave Kahn, French Symbolist poet and art critic (b. 1859)
September 14 - Irving Thalberg, American film producer (b. 1899)
September 17 - Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand activist (b. 1877)
September 19 - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (b. 1860)
October 3 - John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869)
October 5 - J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist (tuberculosis) (b. 1898)
October 8 - William Henry Stark, American business leader (b. 1851)
October 8 - Red Ames, American baseball player (b. 1882)
October 19 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (b. 1881)
October 20 - Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866)
November 6 - Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (b. 1864)
November 10 - Louis Gustave Binger, French officer and explorer (b. 1856)
November 17 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
November 20 - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (b. 1896)
November 20 - José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (b. 1903)
December 2 - John Ringling, American circus owner (b. 1866)
December 10 - Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
December 10 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer
December 18 - Andrija Mohorovičić, Austro-Hungarian-born Yugoslav seismologist (b. 1857)
December 31 - Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (b. 1864)

Events

January 6 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act was unconstitutional in the case United States v. Butler et al.
January 15 - The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio (the building was for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company).
January 20 - Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom.
January 24 - Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France
January 29 - The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
January 31 - The Green Hornet radio show debuts.
February 4 - Radium E becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
February 6 - Olympic Games: Winter Olympic Games
February 16 - Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.
February 17 - The world's first superhero, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in comics.
February 26 - In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
February 29 - Baby Snooks, played by Fanny Brice, debuts on the radio program The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air.
March 1 - The Hoover Dam is completed.
March 1 - A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen's Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union.
March 5 - First flight of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft.
March 7 - World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
March 8 - The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida.
March 11 - British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to join growing conflict with Germany.
March 24 - The longest game in NHL history was played between Detroit and Montreal. Detroit scored at 16:30 of the sixth overtime and won the game 1-0.
March 29 - In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters.
April 1 - Orissa Formerly known as Kalinga or Utkal became a state in India.
April 3 - Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh II, the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
April 5 - Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
April 6 - Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
April 19 - First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine.
April 27 - The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
May 5 - Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
May 9 - Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
May 15 - Amy Johnson arrives back in England after a record-breaking return flight to Cape Town
May 21 - Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
May 22 - Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland.
May 25 - The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
May 26 - In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he spoke for 10 hours.
May 28 - Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
June 7 - The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president.
June 11 - International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.
June 26 - Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
June 28 - The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
June 30 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Abbysinia appeals for aid to the League of nations against Mussolinis invasion of his country
July 6 - A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet into the River Irwell.
July 11 - The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
July 17 - Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
July 18 - In Morocco, Franco starts a coup d'état against the legitimacy of the Spanish government. This will lead to the Spanish Civil War.
July 20 - The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.
July 23 - In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of socialist and communist parties.
July 26 - The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
July 31 - The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo. However, the games are given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War breaks out, and are eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II.
August 1 - Olympic Games: Summer Olympic Games
August 3 - Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash by defeating Ralph Metcalfe at Berlin Olympics.
August 4 - Greek General Ioannis Metaxas, leader of the 4th of August Regime, suspends parliament and the Constitution and declares himself dictator.
August 9 - Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.
August 14 - Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
August 24 - The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
September 7 - The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
October 1 - Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
October 5 - The Jarrow March sets off for London.
October 9 - Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
October 25 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis.
October 26 - The first electric generator at Hoover Dam went into full operation.
October 27 - Mrs Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
October 28 - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
October 31 - The Boy Scouts of the Philippines is formed.
November 2 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
November 2 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
November 2 - The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, high-definition (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
November 12 - In California, the San Francisco
November 20 - Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange is killed by a republican execution squad.
November 23 - The first edition of Life is published.
November 25 - In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, thus agreeing to consult on what measures to take "to safeguard their common interests" in case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation.
November 30 - In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
December 5 - The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
December 10 - Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
December 11 - Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII's abdication as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India becomes effective.
December 12 - Xi'an Incident: The Generalissimo of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek is kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang.
December 23 - Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
December 30 - The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike.

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