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First transpacific passenger service completed by Pan American Airways, with Martin four-engined China Clipper in a round trip to Manila.

First meeting of the London branch of the British Interplanetary Society takes place at the offices of Professor A.M. Low in Piccadilly. 22 members are in attendance. John Happian Edwards , director of research, spoke to the gathering and predicted space travel would be possible by 1970.

A gathering of approximately a dozen science fiction fans who had traveled from New York to Philadelphia to meet at the home of SF fan Milton Rothman is sometimes touted as the first "science fiction convention".

The London Daily Telegraph runs a five inch column story about the first London gathering of the British Interplanetary Society .

The Ashton Reporter in England runs headline "By Rocket to the Moon". The article features a photograph of a young Eric Burgess standing next to the Manchester Interplanetary Society 's launching rack for an experimental rocket. The article explains how the Society plans to launch an experimental liquid fuel rocket from "a croft behind Ashton New Road". It goes on to describe the MIS1a ...

F. W. Kessler, Willy Ley , and N. Carver launched two mail-carrying "rocket airplanes" at Greenwood Lake, N.Y., which traveled about 1,000 feet.

Navy awarded contract for XPB2Y-1 flying boat to Consolidated, which became the prototype for four engined flying boats used throughout World War II.

Reversible propeller demonstrated at Bolling Field, D.C., by American Propeller Co.

Hughes XH-17 Flying Crane helicopter completed first official flight.

The Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Institute for Flight Structures established at Columbia University for research and graduate training in flight structures, including structures intended for space flight.

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