Florida became the 27th state to join the United States of America.
Source
In Auckland, New Zealand, Sky Tower opened, making it the tallest free-standing building in the Southern Hemisphere.
The notorious John Dillinger used a wooden pistol to break out of prison.
A field in Bath County, Kentucky, was showered by a steady rain of mystery meat. This became known as the Kentucky meat shower.
The US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was founded as an emergency measure during WWI.
The USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, was decommissioned in California.
