Arthur Judson and partners founded the company that would become CBS, challenging NBC's dominance and reshaping American broadcasting.

Following Chiang Kai-shek's Shanghai massacre days earlier, Communist and leftist forces regrouped and denounced the Nationalist government, deepening the split that ignited China's civil war.

Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis lifts off from Roosevelt Field, New York, beginning the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight to Paris.

Charles Lindbergh touched down at Le Bourget Field, completing the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight after 33.5 hours aloft.

Henry Ford's factories built the fifteen-millionth and final Model T, ending nineteen years of production for the car that put America on wheels.

'The Jazz Singer' premiered in New York, stunning audiences with synchronized dialogue and song that launched the era of talking motion pictures.

The Soviet Communist Party expelled Leon Trotsky, Stalin's chief rival, sealing his path toward exile, persecution, and eventual assassination.