New York police raided Margaret Sanger's birth control clinic after complaints from the Daughters Of The American Revolution. The case was thrown out of court, with the police admonished for violating a physician's right to practice medicine.
2,150 people died when a violent hurricane stalled over Florida.
Amelia Earhart became the first woman to cross the Atlantic in a plane.
27-year-old Walt Disney introduced his first animated cartoon, Plane Crazy. Its lead character, Mickey Mouse, would also appear in the first animated cartoon to use sound, Steamboat Willie.
