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Max Schmeling defeats Jack Sharkey by a four round disqualification the first time that has ever happened in boxing history
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the 10th olympic games ever to be played in Los Angeles, California. The United States won the most medals with 103 total medals 41 of them being gold.
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Chicago Bears played the New York Giants and won by 2 in a final score of 23-21
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The Chicago Bears and the New York Giants went at it again in the 2nd NFL Championship but this time the Giants beat the previous champs by 17 points with a score of 30-13
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James J. Braddock, with 24 losses, defeats defending world champion Max Baer to take the world title,
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Howard Hughes establishes a record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
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Hewlett-Packard now days kown as HP is founded as an electronics company in Palo Alto, California
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Joe Louis retains the world Heavyweight title with a first round knockout of world Light-Heavyweight champion John Henry Lewis in the first round.
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just a day after Japan bombs Hawaii Franklin D. Roosevelt asks congress to declare war on Japan.
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A decade after the 1st NFL Championship game was played the NFL Championship featured the Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins with the Bears beation the Redskins by 2o points with a score of 41-21
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Ike Williams wins the National Boxing Association's world Lightweight title, knocking out champion Juan Zurita in two rounds.
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Trials against japanese war criminals begin in Tokyo
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In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", his Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
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This game featured the Philadelphia Eagles and the Chicago Cardinals, with one of the lowest scoring championships of all time with one touchdown being scored by the Eagles beating the scorless Cardinals by 7 in the final quarter
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Ezzard Charles retains his world Heavyweight title, knocking out world Light-Heavyweight champion Gus Lesvenich in round eight.