In a reply toJames Grover McDonald's statement of December 29, Germany said that theLeague of Nations had "every reason to worry first about the manner in which states belonging to the League deal with minorities and confessions within their borders" before concerning itself with Germany's internal affairs.[2]
U.S. PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt presented the annualState of the Union address to Congress. The president spoke at length about the international situation and warned that "a point has been reached where the people of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers — a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war." Roosevelt asserted that if another age of war was at hand, "the United States and the rest of the Americas can play but one role: through a well-ordered neutrality to do naught to encourage the contest, through adequate defense to save ourselves from embroilment and attack, and through example and all legitimate encouragement and assistance to persuade other Nations to return to the ways of peace and good-will."[3]
The Polish government freed 27,000 prisoners under a generalamnesty.[1]
England defeated the New ZealandAll Blacks for the first time in aRugby Union international match, 13–0.Alexander Obolensky became a national hero when he scored two tries.[1]
This is thecover date ofBillboard magazine's first publishedhit parade, listing the most popular recordings in the United States.
The SpanishCortes Generales was dissolved and new elections called for February.[4]
Iran became the first Muslim country to ban the wearing of veils in public.[5] In the years prior to the1979 Revolution, Iran celebrated January 7 as Women's Day to mark this event.[6]
Ethiopia asked theLeague of Nations to dispatch a commission to investigate the use of poison gas by Italian troops.[7]
The Dominican capital city Santo Domingo was renamed Ciudad Trujilo to honor Rafael Trujilo
Jewish booksellers throughout Nazi Germany were ordered to turn in their Reich Publications Chamber membership cards, without which no one was permitted to sell books.[8]
Howard Hughes set a new transcontinental flight record, completing a non-stop flight from Los Angeles toNewark, New Jersey in 9 hours 27 minutes 10 seconds.[15]
In Paris, the trial in theStavisky Affair ended with 9 convictions and 11 acquittals.[1]
Joseph Goebbels said in a speech in Berlin thatGermany's colonies lost in theTreaty of Versailles must be returned. In this speech he also made the famous "guns versus butter" comparison, saying, "We can manage without butter but not, for example, without guns. If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns, not with butter."[21][22]
A memorial toTheodore Roosevelt was dedicated in New York City. PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt made a speech paying tribute to his predecessor in the office and fourth cousin, describing him as "a great patriot and a great soul."[24]
KingGeorge V died at the age of 70 in the presence of his immediate family atSandringham House at five minutes to midnight after a four-day bronchial illness. His eldest sonEdward became the new king.[25]
Italians captured what remained of the town ofNegele Borana which had nearly been destroyed by bombing.[13][19]
President Roosevelt sent a short handwritten message saying he would not sign the Adjusted Compensation Payment Bill, explaining that it only differed in two respects from the bill he had already vetoed at the last session. Prior to this note,Theodore Roosevelt had been the last president to write a veto message by hand. The House promptly took a vote and overrode the presidential veto by a count of 324 to 61.[31]
Al Smith announced in a radio address that due to his opposition to theNew Deal, he would not be supporting Roosevelt in the 1936 election campaign as he had in 1932.[32]
GeneralFrancisco Franco was selected as Spain's representative to attend the funeral of George V.[33]
Oscar K. Allen, 53,Governor of Louisiana since 1932, died of a brain hemorrhage, one week after winning the Democratic Primary to fill the U.S. Senate seat that had been held by the lateHuey Long
Another border incident between the Soviet Union andManchukuo occurred. 3 Russians were killed in a skirmish with Japanese-Manchukuan troops.[40]
The new owners of theBoston Braves baseball club asked newspapermen to come up with a new nickname for the team based on suggestions by fans. The nickname of Bees was soon chosen, but it never really caught on and the team's nickname was reverted to the Braves after the 1940 season.[41]
^Manly, Chesly (January 26, 1936). "New Deal Fraud: Al Smith".Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
^Cortada, James W., ed. (1982).Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 495.ISBN0-313-22054-9.
^Grams, Martin and Salomonson, Terry. The Green Hornet: A History of Radio, Motion Pictures, Comics, and Television (OHR Publishing, LLC, 2010), p. 372. ISBN 978-0-9825311-0-5.
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