Less than two years after the end of Prohibition, the first chapter of Alcoholics Anonymous was organized in New York City.
Influential Senator Huey Long was assassinated in the Louisiana State House in Baton Rouge. The shooter, Dr. Carl Weiss, Jr., was shot and killed by Long's bodyguards.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act.
Billy Costello, the voice of Popeye in the animated shorts, enjoyed a hit with the phonograph recording of the cartoon's theme song, I'm Popeye The Sailor Man.
Humphrey Bogart starred in the Broadway production of Robert E. Sherwood's The Petrified Forest. George Gershwin's musical version of Porgy & Bess started a 16-week run in New York and gave birth to the phonograph hits Bess, You Is My Woman and Summertime (And The Livin' Is Easy).
