The Hambletonian racing event held in Goshen, New York. People gather in a large number to watch the harness race. Sulkies racing along the race track. People watching the event. Horse Newport Dream wins the race.
The 5th Annual Westport Salmon Derby in Westport, Washington. Men aboard fishing vessels underway at sea. They compete to catch a King Salmon. Eugene Kinsman of Seattle wins the award. Fishes at a dock. The winner holding a fish.
American actor and soldier Audie Murphy in Yakima, Washington. He arrives for the shooting of his film 'To Hell and Back'. Scenes of firing and bombardment. Smoke arising in a battlefield. Murphy talking to a man. He joins the jeep jockeys annual cross country jeep-a-thon. Murphy seated in a jeep with a man. Jeeps passing across a field.
An early mishap in the history of flight: An unusual triphibian aircraft attempting takeoff in Washington DC. U.S. Government building along the side of a street. The airplane, not an ornithopter like some early designs, instead looks like a car with a flying saucer on top. It is seen moving on the street during its test run. The U.S. Capitol in the background. The airplane quickly catches fire and burns. The pilot is taken out of the airplane before the fire has fully erupted. People stand near the wounded man. The wounded man lying in a hospital bed. Bandaged face of the man. A woman nursing his burns is sitting nearby.
Collegiate football game between Notre Dame and the Naval Academy, held in Baltimore, Maryland. A large crowd gathers in a stadium. Players standing in formation on the field. Aerial view of the stadium. The game in progress. People cheering and applauding. The Notre Dame team wins the game over Navy, with a score of 14-0.
President Roosevelt signs the Cullen-Harrison Act, an amendment to the Volstead Act late in Prohibition, allowing the sale of beer and wine with an alcohol limit of 3.2% by weight. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt seated at a desk in his office. He signs the bill. Men in a beer bar. A man drinking beer.
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