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Birthdays

January 1 - Giuseppe Patanè, Italian opera conductor (d. 1989)
January 1 - Jackie Parker, American football player (d. 2006)
January 3 - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (d. 2005)
January 3 - Dabney Coleman, American actor
January 4 - Carlos Saura, Spanish director
January 5 - Raisa Gorbacheva, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (d. 1999)
January 5 - Umberto Eco, Italian writer
January 5 - Chuck Noll, American football coach
January 6 - Stuart A. Rice, American chemist
January 7 - Joe Berinson, Australian politician
January 10 - Elaine Devry, American actress
January 11 - Alfonso Arau, Mexican film director
January 12 - Des O'Connor, British television presenter
January 14 - Don Garlits, American race car driver
January 16 - Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985)
January 17 - Sheree North, American actress (d. 2005)
January 18 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author (d. 2007)
January 19 - Richard Lester, British director
January 19 - Russ Hamilton, British singer (d. 2008)
January 20 - Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player
January 21 - John Chaney, American basketball coach
January 22 - Berthold Grünfeld, Norwegian psychiatrist and former sexologist
January 22 - Piper Laurie, American actress
January 26 - Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer
January 27 - Boris Shakhlin, Soviet gymnast
January 29 - Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958)
January 29 - George Allen, English footballer
January 30 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
February 2 - Robert Mandan, American actor
February 3 - Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (d. 1984)
February 5 - Cesare Maldini,
February 6 - Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1959)
February 6 - François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
February 7 - Gay Talese, American author
February 7 - Al Worden, American astronaut
February 8 - Cliff Allison, British racing driver (d. 2005)
February 8 - John Williams, American composer and conductor
February 9 - Tatsuro Hirooka, Japanese baseball player
February 9 - Gerhard Richter, German painter
February 11 - Jerome Lowenthal, American pianist
February 11 - Dennis Skinner, British politician
February 12 - Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (d. 2003)
February 12 - Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (d. 1998)
February 13 - Susan Oliver, American actress (d. 1990)
February 14 - Alexander Kluge, German actor and film director
February 16 - Gretchen Wyler, American actress and dancer (d. 2007)
February 16 - Otis Blackwell, American songwriter and singer (d. 2002)
February 16 - Harry Goz, American actor (d. 2003)
February 16 - Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, President of Sierra Leone
February 17 - Buck Trent, American banjo player
February 18 - Miloš Forman, Czech film director
February 20 - Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer (d. 2007)
February 22 - Ted Kennedy, American politician
February 23 - Majel Barrett, American actress
February 24 - Michel Legrand, French composer
February 24 - John Vernon, Canadian actor (d. 2005)
February 25 - Tony Brooks, English race car driver
February 25 - Faron Young, American singer (d. 1996)
February 26 - Johnny Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
February 27 - Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress
February 28 - Don Francks, Canadian actor
February 29 - Jaguar, Brazilian cartoonist
February 29 - Gene Golub, American mathematician (d. 2007)
February 29 - Masten Gregory, American F1 Driver (d. 1985)
February 29 - Reri Grist, African-American coloratura soprano
March 4 - Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (d. 2007)
March 4 - Miriam Makeba, South African singer
March 4 - Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, American car designer (d. 2001)
March 4 - Frank Wells, American entertainment businessman (d. 1994)
March 7 - Gene Shalit, American film critic
March 9 - Keely Smith, American singer
March 9 - Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologist and actor
March 11 - Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (d. 2007)
March 12 - Barbara Feldon, American actress and model
March 12 - Andrew Young, American civil rights activist and politician
March 14 - Naina Yeltsina, Russia's first First Lady
March 15 - Alan Bean, American astronaut
March 16 - Don Blasingame, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
March 16 - Walter Cunningham, American astronaut
March 17 - Donald N. Langenberg, American physicist
March 18 - John Updike, American author
March 19 - Gay Brewer, American golfer (d. 2007)
March 21 - Walter Gilbert, American chemist
March 21 - Joseph Silverstein, American violinist and conductor
March 23 - Don Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player
March 25 - Gene Shalit, American film critic
March 30 - Ted Morgan, Swiss-born writer
March 31 - Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director
April 1 - Gordon Jump, American actor (d. 2003)
April 1 - Debbie Reynolds, American actress
April 4 - Clive Davis, American record producer
April 4 - Estelle Harris, American actress
April 4 - Richard Lugar, American politician
April 4 - Anthony Perkins, American actor (d. 1992)
April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet film director (d. 1986)
April 5 - Billy Bland, American singer and songwriter
April 9 - Jim Fowler, American zoologist
April 9 - Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (d. 2006)
April 9 - Carl Perkins, American musician (d. 1998)
April 9 - Cheeta, chimpanzee actor
April 10 - Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor
April 11 - Joel Grey, American singer and actor
April 12 - Dennis Banks, American activist
April 12 - Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2005)
April 12 - Tiny Tim, American musician (d. 1996)
April 13 - Orlando Letelier, Chilean politician (d. 1976)
April 14 - Bob Grant, English actor (d. 2003)
April 21 - Elaine May, American comedian
April 23 - Jim Fixx, American athlete and writer (d. 1984)
April 23 - Halston, American fashion designer (d. 1990)
April 25 - William Roache, British television actor (Coronation Street)
April 25 - Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player
April 26 - Francis Lai, French film music composer
April 26 - Michael Smith, English-born chemist
April 27 - Anouk Aimée, French actress
April 27 - Pik Botha, South African politician
April 27 - Casey Kasem, American disc jockey
April 27 - Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
May 2 - Maury Allen, American sportswriter
May 3 - Robert Osborne, American film historian
May 7 - Pete Domenici, Republican senator from New Mexico
May 8 - Julieta Campos, Cuban-Mexican writer (d. 2007)
May 8 - Phyllida Law, Scottish actress
May 8 - Sonny Liston, American boxer (d. 1970)
May 14 - Robert Bechtle, American painter
May 19 - Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
May 19 - Paul Erdman, American economist and author (d. 2007)
May 19 - Claude Blanchard, French Canadian comedian and actor (d. 2006)
May 20 - Bob Florence, American jazz pianist
May 24 - Arnold Wesker, English dramatist
May 25 - John Gregory Dunne, American writer (d. 2003)
May 26 - Grigor Vachkov, Bulgarian actor (d. 1980)
May 29 - Richie Guerin, former basketball player
May 29 - Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author who founded the group Zero Population Growth
May 30 - Pauline Oliveros, American composer and accordionist
May 31 - Jay Miner, American microchip designer (d. 1994)
June 2 - Sammy Turner, American singer
June 4 - Oliver Nelson, American jazz composer and arranger (d. 1975)
June 4 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer
June 4 - John Drew Barrymore, American actor (d. 2004)
June 5 - Christy Brown, Irish author (d. 1981)
June 6 - David Scott, American astronaut
June 10 - Branko Lustig, film producer
June 11 - Athol Fugard, South African playwright
June 12 - Mimi Coertse, a South African soprano
June 12 - Rona Jaffe, American novelist
June 12 - Mamo Wolde, Ethiopian athlete (d. 2002)
June 14 - Joe Arpaio, sheriff of Maricopa County
June 15 - Mario Cuomo, American politician
June 17 - Peter Lupus, American actor (Mission: Impossible)
June 17 - John Murtha, American politician
June 18 - Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist
June 18 - Geoffrey Hill, English poet
June 19 - Pier Angeli, Italian-born American actress (d. 1972)
June 19 - Marisa Pavan, Italian-born actress
June 20 - Robert Rozhdestvensky, Russian poet (d. 1994)
June 21 - O.C. Smith, American singer (d. 2001)
June 21 - Lalo Schifrin, Argentine pianist and composer
June 22 - Amrish Puri, Indian actor (d. 2005)
June 22 - Prunella Scales, English actress
June 25 - Peter Blake, British artist
June 27 - Anna Moffo, American soprano (d. 2006)
June 27 - Eddie Kasko, baseball player
June 27 - Magali Noël, French actress
June 28 - Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)
June 29 - Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton
July 1 - Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (d. 2007)
July 2 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (d. 2002)
July 4 - Aurèle Vandendriessche, Belgian athlete
July 5 - Billy Laughlin, American actor (d. 1948)
July 5 - Gyula Horn, former Hungarian prime minister
July 7 - Josef Zawinul, Austrian composer and musician (d. 2007)
July 8 - Jerry Vale, American singer
July 9 - Donald Rumsfeld, 13th & 21st United States Secretary of Defense
July 10 - Carlo Mario Abate, Italian racing driver
July 11 - Jean-Guy Talbot, French Canadian ice hockey player
July 11 - Bob McGrath, American actor
July 12 - Otis Davis, American runner
July 13 - Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist
July 14 - Roosevelt Grier, American football player and actor
July 15 - Ed Litzenberger, Canadian ice hockey player
July 16 - Max McGee, American football player (d. 2007)
July 16 - Dick Thornburgh, American politician
July 17 - Hal Riney, American advertising executive (d. 2008)
July 18 - Robert Ellis Miller, American film director
July 20 - Nam June Paik, Korean-born artist (d. 2006)
July 20 - Otto Schily, German politician
July 21 - Ernie Warlick, American football player
July 22 - Oscar De la Renta, Dominican/American fashion designer
July 29 - Nancy Kassebaum Baker, United States Senator from Kansas
July 31 - Ted Cassidy, American actor (d. 1979)
July 31 - John Searle, American philosopher
August 1 - Meir Kahane, American founder of the Jewish Defense League (d. 1990)
August 1 - Meena Kumari, Indian film actress (d. 1972)
August 2 - Lamar Hunt, American sports executive (d. 2006)
August 2 - Peter O'Toole, Irish-born actor
August 6 - Howard Hodgkin, British painter
August 7 - Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian athlete (d. 1973)
August 7 - Maurice Rabb, Jr.
August 7 - Edward Hardwicke, British actor
August 8 - Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian dictator
August 8 - Mel Tillis, American singer
August 9 - John Gomery, Canadian jurist
August 11 - Fernando Arrabal, Spanish writer
August 11 - Israel Asper, Canadian tax lawyer (d. 2003)
August 11 - John Gorrie, English director
August 12 - Dallin H. Oaks, LDS apostle and former Utah Supreme Court Justice
August 12 - Charlie O'Donnell, American game show announcer
August 12 - Somdet Phra Nang Chao Sirikit Phra Borommarachininat, Queen of Thailand
August 14 - Lee Hoffman, American author (d. 2007)
August 17 - V. S. Naipaul, West Indian writer
August 18 - William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
August 19 - Thomas P. Salmon, 75th Governor of Vermont
August 20 - Anthony Ainley, British actor (d. 2004)
August 20 - Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist
August 20 - Atholl McKinnon, South African cricketer (d. 1983)
August 21 - Melvin Van Peebles, American actor and screenwriter
August 22 - Gerald P. Carr, American astronaut
August 23 - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria (d. 1978)
August 23 - Mark Russell, American comedian
August 24 - Robert D. Hales, LDS apostle
August 27 - Antonia Fraser, British author
August 28 - Andy Bathgate, Canadian ice hockey player
September 3 - Eileen Brennan, American actress
September 4 - Carlos Romero Barcelo, Puerto Rican politician
September 4 - Dinsdale Landen, English actor (d. 2003)
September 8 - Patsy Cline, American singer (d. 1963)
September 9 - Sylvia Miles, American actress
September 10 - Bo Goldman, American screenwriter
September 11 - Peter Anderson, English footballer
September 14 - Harry Sinden, American National Hockey League executive
September 14 - John Tembo, Malawian politician
September 18 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2002)
September 22 - Ingemar Johansson, Swedish boxer and former heavyweight champion of the world
September 24 - Dominique Michel, Canadian comedian
September 25 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 1982)
September 25 - Terry Medwin, Welsh retired footballer
September 25 - Adolfo Suárez, Prime Minister of Spain (1977-1981)
September 26 - Richard Herd, American actor
September 26 - Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
September 26 - Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer and dissident
September 27 - Roger C. Carmel, American actor (d. 1986)
September 27 - Michael Colvin, Canadian singer
September 27 - Oliver E. Williamson, American economist
September 27 - Yash Chopra, Indian director
September 27 - Geoff Bent, English footballer (d. 1958)
September 28 - Víctor Jara, Chilean folk singer and activist (d. 1973)
September 29 - Robert Benton, American screenwriter and director
September 29 - Mehmood, Indian actor (d. 2004)
September 30 - Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (Governor of Tokyo)
September 30 - Johnny Podres, American baseball player (d. 2008)
October 1 - Albert Collins, American guitarist (d. 1993)
October 2 - Maury Wills, American baseball player
October 4 - Milan Chvostek, Canadian television director
October 5 - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (d. 2006)
October 8 - Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player
October 10 - Harry Smith, English footballer
October 11 - Dottie West, American singer (d. 1991)
October 12 - Dick Gregory, American comedian and activist
October 12 - Ned Jarrett, American race car driver
October 13 - Jack Colvin, American actor (d. 2005)
October 14 - Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (d. 2005)
October 14 - Enrico di Giuseppe, American tenor (d. 2005)
October 14 - Dyanne Thorne, American actress
October 16 - John Grant, British politician (d. 2000)
October 16 - Henry Lewis, American musician and conductor (d. 1996)
October 18 - Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician
October 19 - Robert Reed, American actor (d. 1992)
October 20 - Rosey Brown, American football player (d. 2004)
October 20 - William Christopher, American actor (M*A*S*H)
October 24 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist
October 24 - Robert Mundell, Canadian economist
October 25 - Harry Gregg, Irish footballer and football manager
October 27 - Sylvia Plath, American poet (d. 1963)
October 27 - Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (d. 2007)
October 28 - Suzy Parker, American actress (d. 2003)
October 28 - Spyros Kyprianou, a President of Cyprus
October 30 - Louis Malle, French film director (d. 1995)
October 30 - Barun De, Indian historian
November 1 - John Clark, English-born actor/director
November 1 - Al Arbour, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
November 4 - Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004)
November 6 - Stonewall Jackson, American country singer
November 10 - Don Henderson, English actor (d. 1997)
November 10 - Roy Scheider, American actor (d. 2008)
November 13 - Richard Mulligan, American actor (d. 2000)
November 15 - Petula Clark, English singer
November 15 - Clyde McPhatter, American singer (d. 1972)
November 15 - Alvin Plantinga, American philosopher
November 18 - Nasif Estéfano, Argentine racing driver {d. 1973)
November 20 - Richard Dawson, English actor and game show host
November 22 - Robert Vaughn, American actor
November 22 - Keith Wickenden, British politician (d. 1983)
November 23 - Michel David-Weill, French investment banker
November 27 - Benigno Aquino, Jr.
November 28 - Ray Perkins, Canadian singer (The Crew-Cuts)
November 29 - Jacques Chirac, French politician
November 29 - Diane Ladd, American actress
November 30 - Bob Moore, American bassist and orchestra leader
November 30 - Cho Namchul, South Korean professional Go player (d. 2006)
December 1 - Matt Monro, English singer (d. 1985)
December 3 - Corry Brokken, Dutch singer
December 4 - Roh Tae-woo, President of South Korea
December 5 - Sheldon Lee Glashow, American physicist
December 5 - Little Richard, American singer and pianist
December 7 - Ellen Burstyn, American actress
December 7 - Paul Caponigro, American photographer
December 9 - Edd Wheeler, American singer-songwriter
December 11 - Anne Heywood, English actress
December 12 - Bob Pettit, American basketball player
December 14 - Abbe Lane, American singer and actress
December 14 - Charlie Rich, American musician (d. 1995)
December 15 - Jesse Belvin, American musician (d. 1960)
December 16 - Rodion Shchedrin, Soviet/Russian composer
December 18 - Roger Smith, American actor
December 19 - Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer
December 20 - John Hillerman, American actor
December 21 - Edward Hoagland, American essayist
December 24 - On Kawara, Japanese conceptual artist
December 25 - Mabel King, American actress (d. 1999)
December 28 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (d. 2002)
December 28 - Dorsey Burnette, American singer (d. 1979)
December 28 - Roy Hattersley, British politician
December 28 - Harry Howell, Canadian hockey player
December 28 - Nichelle Nichols, American actress and singer
December 28 - Manuel Puig, Argentine writer (d. 1990)
December 29 - Inga Swenson, American actress

Deaths

January 1 - C P Scott, British journalist
January 7 - André Maginot, French eponym of the Maginot Line (b. 1877)
January 8 - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic (b. 1866)
January 13 - Sophia of Prussia, consort of Constantine I of Greece (b. 1870)
January 17 - Albert Jacka, VC
January 21 - Giles Lytton Strachey, British writer (b. 1880)
January 24 - Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder (b. 1842)
January 26 - William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (b. 1861)
February 2 - Agha Petros, Assyrian nationalist leader
February 8 - Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, New York City gangster from County Donegal in Ireland (b. 1908)
February 10 - Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
February 15 - Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (b. 1865)
February 16 - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist
February 27 - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (b. 1843)
February 28 - Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (b. 1851)
March 1 - Frank Teschemacher, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1906)
March 3 - Eugen d'Albert, German composer (b. 1864)
March 6 - John Philip Sousa, American band leader
March 7 - Aristide Briand, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1862)
March 14 - George Eastman, American inventor
April 3 - Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist
April 4 - Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist
April 20 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b. 1858)
April 26 - William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
April 27 - Hart Crane, American writer (b. 1899)
May 22 - Lady Gregory, Irish playwright (b. 1852)
June 14 - Dorimène Roy Desjardins, Canadian business pioneer
June 22 - Tommy Treichel, American professional wrestler (b. 1892)
July 2 - Manuel II of Portugal, (b. 1889)
July 5 - Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (b. 1880)
July 6 - Kenneth Grahame, English author (b. 1859)
July 7 - Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)
July 7 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
July 9 - King C. Gillette, American inventor (b. 1885)
July 15 - Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African politician and writer (b. 1873)
July 20 - René Bazin, French novelist (b. 1853)
July 21 - Bill Gleason, late 19th century baseball player
July 22 - Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853)
July 22 - Florenz Ziegfeld, theatrical producer (b. 1867)
July 22 - Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
July 23 - Tenby Davies, Welsh half-mile world champion runner (b. 1884)
July 26 - Frederick S. Duesenberg automotive pioneer, (b. 1876)
August 10 - Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (b. 1918)
September 5 - Francisco Acebal, Spanish novelist
September 11 - Franciszek Zwirko and Stanislaw Wigura, Polish pilots (Żwirko b. 1895 Wigura b. 1901)
September 16 - Ronald Ross, English physician
September 20 - Wovoka, Paiute visionary
October 18 - Ioannis Chrysafis, Greek gymnast (b. 1873)
October 29 - Joseph Babiński, Polish-French neurologist (b. 1857)
November 22 - William Walker Atkinson, American author (b. 1862)
November 27 - Evelyn Preer, American actress and singer (b. 1896)
December 13 - Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter (b. 1853)
December 19 - Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean activist (b. 1908)
December 28 - Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)

Events

January 1 - The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth.
January 3 - Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop revolt by banana workers fired by United Fruit.
January 12 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
January 28 - Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
February 4 - World War II: Japan occupies Harbin, China.
February 18 - The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo (obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China.
February 25 - Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
February 29 - TIME magazine features eccentric American politician William "Alfalfa" Murray on its cover after Murray stated his intention to run for President of the United States.
March 1 - The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
March 9 - The Egyptian University rector "Ahmed Lotfy El-Said" resigns in protest of the transfer of Dr.Taha Hussein without the University's permission. In 2003, an academic group called "March 9" is established in Egypt to defend academic rights and university independence.
March 9 - The first Ford Flathead engine leaves the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.
March 19 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
April 5 - Alcohol prohibition in Finland ends. Alcohol sales begin in Alko liquor stores.
April 5 - Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
April 23 - The 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, the Netherlands burns down.
April 28 - A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
May 2 - Comedian Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time.
May 4 - In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
May 12 - Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.
May 15 - The May 15 Incident: in an attempted Coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed.
May 20 - Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
May 21 - Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and thereby becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
May 29 - World War I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, DC in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
June 6 - The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold.
June 17 - Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
June 24 - A military coup ends the absolute power of the king of Siam (Thailand).
July 8 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
July 9 - The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution
July 12 - Hedley Verity establishes a first-class record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.
July 20 - In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the White House.
July 20 - Crowds in the capitals of Bolivia and Paraguay demand their governments declare war on the other after fighting on their border.
July 28 - U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
July 29 - Great Depression: in Washington, DC, U.S. troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
July 30 - Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short
July 31 - The NSDAP wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
August 2 - The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
August 10 - A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
August 22 - The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)
August 24 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
September 5 - The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
September 10 - The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
September 11 - Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, are killed in a plane crash when their RWD 6 crashes into the ground during a storm.
September 18 - Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" in the Hollywood sign.
September 23 - The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
October 3 - Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
October 8 - The Indian Air Force is established.
October 15 - Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
November 9 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
November 24 - In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
December 5 - German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
December 10 - Thailand adopts a Constitution and becomes a constitutional monarchy.
December 18 - The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in the first ever NFL Championship Game. Because of a blizzard, the game was moved from Wrigley Field to the Chicago Stadium, the field measuring 80 yards long.
December 19 - BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service
December 25 - A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills ~70,000 people.

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