Adolf Hitler abolishes all labor unions. Telegrams of tribute greet Emma Goldman at a farewell event hosted by Rabbi Stern of Montreal. Edna St. Vincent Millay's manuscript of Conversation at Midnight is destroyed in a hotel fire in Florida. First commercial jet plane, BOAC Comet, goes into service. Soon grounded, for the structural defeat of exploding in the air, coming down like a comet.
Parliament forbids discrimination based on caste.
I killed more people tonight than I have fingers on my hands. They were commies, Lee. They were red sons of bitches who should have died long ago . . . They never thought that there were people like me in this country. Despite international protests, California fries Caryl Chessman.