Historical Book Project Timeline Al Capone Does My Shirt

  • 21st Rose Bowl: Alabama beats Stanford, 29-13

  • Moose and his family move into Alcatraz Island.

  • Piper tells Moose that she wants to charge five cents anyone that wants their clothe to be washed by the prisoners.

  • Moose and other kids go hide behind some bushes so they could get to see the prisoners. They are really hoping to see Al Capone.

  • Piper and other kids get caught with what they were doing and the warden stops everything. Their buisness ends.

  • -11°F (-24°C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low)

  • Adolf Hitler publicly announces the creation of a new air force, the Luftwaffe

  • Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases in New York

  • Piper finds out Al Capones' mother is coming to visit his son and she is determined to talk to her.

  • 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY

  • While Moose was traying to get a baseball from the convicts for his friends, he lost Natalie and finds her with a prisoner and he freaks out.

  • People are starting to notice that Natalie is not really ten years old and this is bad for Mooses' family.

  • Moose can't keep the lie's to himself and he goes tells the warden the truth about Natalie. Now they have to leave because they don't have the requirments needed to be there.

  • Moose is still not giving up and wants Natalie to go to a good school were she will get all the help she would need. He gets the idea of writting a letter to Al Capone asking him if he could help Natalie get into a good school.

  • Moose is changing and he finds a small piece of paper on his pocket. He opens it and it has the word "Done". Al Capone did help them.

  • 1st "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcast

  • US-Russian commerce treaty takes effect

  • 1st greetings telegram sent in Britain

  • 3rd Venice Film Festival opens

  • Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews

  • 2nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 5, All-Stars 0

  • Italy invades Ethiopia, starting the Second Italo-Ethiopian War

  • League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia

  • Pacific Association of AAU votes not to participate in Berlin Olympics

  • Nazis deprive German Jews of their citizenship

  • First commercial hydroponics operation established (Montebello, California)