Yuri Gagarin, who would become the first human in space, was born in the village of Klushino in the Soviet Union.

President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Tydings-McDuffie Act, promising Philippine independence from the United States after a ten-year transition.

Elzire Dionne gave birth to five identical girls near Callander, Ontario, the first quintuplets known to survive infancy, sparking a worldwide media sensation.

Donald Duck made his screen debut in Disney's animated short 'The Wise Little Hen,' introducing the irascible, sailor-suited character to the world.

Adolf Hitler traveled to Venice to meet Benito Mussolini for the first time, an uneasy encounter between two fascist dictators.

FBI agents shot and killed bank robber John Dillinger outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, ending a manhunt that had gripped Depression-era America.

FBI agents shot bank robber John Dillinger dead outside Chicago's Biograph Theater after an informant tipped off his location.

The RMS Queen Mary was launched on the Clyde in Scotland before 200,000 spectators, becoming one of the grandest ocean liners of the transatlantic era.

Hitler addressed hundreds of thousands at the annual Erntedankfest harvest festival, using pageantry to fuse rural German identity with Nazi ideology.