Events
January -June
July-December
- July 3 - Steam locomotive "Mallard" sets the world speed record for steam by reaching 126 mph.
- July 3 - The last reunion of the Blue and Gray commemerates the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- July 10 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91 hour airplane flight around the world.
- July - Building of the concentration camp Mauthausen
- August 18 - The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting the United States with Canada, is dedicated by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- September - European crisis over German demand for annexation of Sudeten borderland of Czechoslovakia.
- September 29 - Munich agreement of German, Italian, British and French leaders agrees to German demands regarding annexation of Sudetenland.
- October 1 - German troops march into Sudetenland
- October 5 - Eduard Benes, president of Czechoslovakia, resigns
- October 10 - The Blue Water Bridge opens, connecting Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario
- October 17 - Jan Syrovy's government begins in Czechoslovakia
- November 30 - Czech parliament elects Emil Hácha as the new president of Czechoslovakia
- October 30 - Orson Welles's radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds is broadcast, causing mass panic in the eastern United States.
- October 31 - Great Depression: In an effort to try restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
- November 9 - Holocaust: Kristallnacht begins - In Germany, the "night of broken glass" begins as Nazi troops and sympathizers loot and burn Jewish businesses (the all night affair saw 7,500 Jewish businesses destroyed, 267 synagogues burned, 91 Jews killed, and at least 25,000 Jewish men arrested).
- November 10 - On the eve of Armistice Day, Kate Smith sings Irving Berlin's God Bless America for the first time on her weekly radio show.
- November 18 - Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
- December 13 - 100 deportees from Sachsenhausen built the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg.
- December 23 - Coelacanth caught off the coast of South Africa.
- Italian mathematician Ettore Majorano disappears
- In Québec, the St. Jean Baptiste Society raised a petition of 128,000 names, demanding restrictions on Jews living in Quebec. Abbe Groulx, the spiritual father of modern Quebec, denounced Jews as a race that refused to be assimilated.
Ongoing events
Year in topic
Births
January
February
- February 1 - Sherman Hemsley, comedian, actor
- February 11 - Boris Majorov, Soviet ice hockey player
- February 11 - Yevgeniy Majorov, Soviet ice hockey player
- February 11 - Bevan Congdon, New Zealand cricket player
- February 11 - Willy Correa de Oliveira, composer
- February 11 - Manuel Noriega, Panamanian general and dictator
- February 12 - Judy Blume, author
- February 13 - Oliver Reed, actor (d. 1999)
- February 18 - Istvan Szabo, director
- February 24 - Phil Knight,founder of Nike, Inc.
- February 25 - Herb Elliott, Australian runner
- February 28 - Klaus Staeck, graphic artist
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Deaths
- January 20 - Émile Cohl, French caricaturist and animator.
- January 21 - Georges Méliès, French film director, allegedly the first
- February 2 – Frederick William Vanderbilt, railway magnate
- February 7 - Harvey Firestone, manufacturer
- March 1 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, dramatist, daredevil, war hero and politician (b. 1863)
- March 2 - Ben Harney, US composer and ragtime pianist (b. 1871)
- March 13 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Soviet politician and intellectual
- March 13 - Clarence Darrow, attorney
- April 8 - Joe "King" Oliver, jazz musician (b. 1885)
- April 12 - Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass (b. 1873)
- April 21 - Allama Iqbal, philosopher-poet
- August 7 - Konstantin Stanislavski, Russian stage actor
- August 16 - Robert Johnson, blues musician
- September 17 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901)
- October 22 – May Irwin, actress, singer
- October 27 - Lascelles Abercrombie, English poet and critic.
- November 10 - Kemal Atatürk, founder and first president of the Turkish Republic, (b. 1881)
- November 11 - Mary Mallon, Irish servant and cook, famous carrier of Typhoid fever.
- December 25 - Karel Čapek, Czech author, inventor of the word robot (b. 1890)
- December 28 - Florence Lawrence, Hollywood's first "star"
- John Jacob Abel - American pharmacologist.
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