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Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas: William Lee Cazort (Democratic) (until month and day unknown), Robert L. Bailey (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of California: George J. Hatfield (Republican)
Lieutenant Governor of Colorado: Raymond Herbert Talbot (Democratic) (until January 1), Frank J. Hayes (Democratic) (starting January 1)
Lieutenant Governor of Idaho: G. P. Mix (Democratic) (until January 3), Charles C. Gossett (Democratic) (starting January 3)
Lieutenant Governor of Illinois: Thomas Donovan (Democratic) (until January 4), John H. Stelle (Democratic) (starting January 4)
Lieutenant Governor of Indiana: M. Clifford Townsend (Democratic) (until January 11), Henry F. Schricker (Democratic) (starting January 11)
Lieutenant Governor of Iowa: Nelson G. Kraschel (Democratic) (until January 14), John K. Valentine (Democratic) (starting January 14)
Lieutenant Governor of Kansas: Charles W. Thompson (Republican) (until month and day unknown), William M. Lindsay (Democratic) (starting month and day unknown)
Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky: Keen Johnson (Democratic)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana: Earl K. Long (Democratic)
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: Joseph L. Hurley (Democratic) (until January 7), Francis E. Kelly (Democratic) (starting January 7)
Lieutenant Governor of Montana: William P. Pilgeram (political party unknown) (until month and day unknown), Hugh R. Adair (political party unknown) (starting month and day unknown)
January 4-October 16: Henry A. Gunderson (Progressive)
starting October 16: vacant
Events[]
January–March[]
January 11 – The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale.
January 12 – Adventurer and filmmaker Martin Johnson, of Martin and Osa Johnson fame, is killed along with four others in the crash of Western Air Express Flight 7 in mountainous terrain near Saugus, California.
January 19 – Howard Hughes sets a new record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
January 20 – Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes swears in Franklin D. Roosevelt for a second term. This is the first time Inauguration Day in the United States occurs on this date, in response to the ratification in 1933 of the 20th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Inauguration has occurred on January 20 ever since. John Nance Garner is sworn in for a second term as Vice President of the United States.
January 26 – Michigan celebrates its Centennial Anniversary of statehood.
January 31 – The Ohio River floods.
February 5 – PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
February 6 – John Steinbeck's novella of the Great DepressionOf Mice and Men is published.
February 11 – A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Automobile Workers Union.
March 2 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, precursor to United Steelworkers, signs a collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel.
March 4 – The 9th Academy Awards, hosted by George Jessel, are presented at Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, with Robert Z. Leonard's The Great Ziegfeld winning the Outstanding Production. The film was among two others (being Mervyn LeRoy's Anthony Adverse and William Wyler's Dodsworth) to each receive the most nominations with seven, while Anthony Adverse won the most awards with four. Frank Capra receives his second Best Director award for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.
March 26 – William Henry Hastie becomes the first African-American appointed to a federal judgeship.
March – The first issue of the comic bookDetective Comics is published in the United States. Twenty-seven issues later, Detective Comics introduces Batman. The comic goes on to become the longest continually published comic magazine in American history; it is still published as of 2017.
March 17 – The Atherton Report (private investigator Edwin Atherton's report detailing vice and police corruption in San Francisco) is released.
March 18
In the worst school disaster in American history in terms of lives lost, the New London School in New London, Texas suffers a catastrophic natural gas explosion, killing in excess of 295 students and teachers.
Mother Frances Hospital opens in Tyler, Texas in response to the New London School explosion.
March 26 ��� In Crystal City, Texas, spinach growers erect a statue of the cartoon characterPopeye.
March 28 – Sculptor Robert George Irwin kills three people in Turtle Bay, Manhattan.
April–June[]
May 6: Hindenburg disaster
May 27: The Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic
April 12 – NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the National Labor Relations Act is constitutional.
April 13 – Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is established.
April 17 – The animated short Porky's Duck Hunt, directed by Tex Avery for the Looney Tunes series, featuring the debut of Daffy Duck, is released.
May – 7 million unemployed in the USA.
May 6 – Hindenburg disaster: The German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
May 7 – An enquiry begins into the Hindenburg disaster.
May 27 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County. The next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushes a button in Washington, D.C., signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the Golden Gate Bridge.
May 30 – Labor strike at US Steel in Chicago; crackdown.[1]
June 14 – Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
June 24 – The U.S. Navy's first two fast battleships, North Carolina and Washington, are ordered from the New York and Philadelphia Naval Shipyards, respectively.
June 25 – In The Bronx, an extended Orchard Beach recreation area opens, turning Hunter Island into a peninsula.
July–September[]
September 20: The Federal Art Project opens a Watercolors and Drawings show at the new Federal Art Gallery, NYC
July 2
Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear after taking off from New Guinea during Earhart's attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world.
A guard first stands post at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Washington, D.C.; continuous guard has been maintained there ever since.
July 4 – The Lost Colony historical drama is first performed in an outdoor theater in the location where it is set, Roanoke Island, North Carolina.
July 5 – The canned precooked meat product Spam is introduced by the Hormel company.
July 22 – New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
July 24 – Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called Scottsboro Boys.
September 7 – CBS broadcasts a two-and-a-half hour memorial concert nationwide on radio in memory of George Gershwin, live from the Hollywood Bowl. Many celebrities appear, including Oscar Levant, Fred Astaire, Otto Klemperer, Lily Pons, and members of the original cast of Porgy and Bess. The concert is recorded and released complete years later in what is excellent sound for its time, on CD. The Los Angeles Philharmonic is the featured orchestra.
September 18 – African American writer Zora Neale Hurston publishes her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
September 20 – USS Yorktown is commissioned.
September 26 – Street & Smith launches a half-hour radio program, The Shadow, with Orson Welles in the title role.
October–December[]
October 1
The Marijuana Tax Act becomes law in the United States.
U.S. Supreme Court associate justice Hugo Black, in a nationwide radio broadcast, refutes allegations of past involvement in the Ku Klux Klan.
October 5 – Roosevelt gives his famous Quarantine Speech in Chicago.
October 10 – The New York Yankees defeat the New York Giants (baseball), 4 games to 1, to win their 6th World Series Title.
October 15 – Ernest Hemingway's novel To Have and Have Not is first published.
December 12
Panay incident: Japanese bombers sink the American gunboat USS Panay.
Mae West makes a risque guest appearance on the NBCChase and Sanborn Hour that eventually results in her being banned from radio.
December 21 – Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first feature-length animated cartoon with sound, opens and becomes a smash hit.
December 22 – The Lincoln Tunnel, connecting New York City to Weehawken, New Jersey, under the Hudson River opens to road traffic.
December 25 – At the age of 70, legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra on radio for the first time, beginning his successful 17-year tenure with that orchestra. This first concert consists of music by Vivaldi (at a time when he was still seldom played), Mozart, and Brahms. Millions tune in to listen, including U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Undated[]
Napoleon Hill's self-help book Think and Grow Rich is published.