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Results 1 - 29 of 29

1st - Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds
1st - Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
1st - Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin
3rd - Prussia bans anti-fascists
4th - Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9
6th - AL announces it will discontinue MVP award
6th - NY to SF footrace begins
8th - Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway
8th - NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pirates, 11-0
9th - NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pitts Pirates
9th - WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions
10th - 55th Preakness: Louis Schaefer aboard Dr Freeland wins in 2:01.6
10th - 64th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Muirfield Gullane
11th - 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
11th - Dr Annie Webb Blanton forms Delta Kappa Gamma Society in Austin Tx
12th - Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary)
15th - Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleve Ohio)
16th - 1st Academy Awards - "Wings," Emil Jennings & Janet Gaynor wins
16th - In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
18th - 55th Kentucky Derby: Linus McAtee on Clyde Van Dusen wins in 2:10.8
18th - Dodgers beat Phillies 20-16 & lost 8-6 in 2nd game (record 50 runs)
19th - Cloudburst causes stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death
19th - General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek govt
21st - Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
21st - Sergei Prokoviev's ballet "Prodigal Son," premieres in Paris
24th - Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings
27th - 2nd Ryder Cup: Britain-Ireland, 7-5 at Moortown, England
28th - 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (NYC)
31st - Atlantic City Convention Center opens