The Olentangy Park amusement center closes. Amelia Earhart disappears over the South Pacific. The Hindenburg dirigible explodes in New Jersey, killing 36. Hemingway's To Have and Have Not and Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men are published. Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is released.
Nylon is patented.
Joe Lewis becomes the heavyweight boxing champion. Anna Marie Hahn becomes the first woman electrocuted at the Ohio Penitentiary. Thornton Wilder's Our Town is staged in New York. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings writes The Yearling. Popular songs include Flat Foot Floogie With a Floy Floy, You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, Jeepers Creepers and September Song.