"Old times there are not forgotten"
The Census Bureau set the population of the United States at 131,669,275. In Europe, Germany invaded Belgium, Denmark, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Norway and conquered France. The first antibiotic was developed and life expectancy in the United States reached 64 years as compared to 49 years in 1900. A survey concluded that radios were present in 30 million homes.
New book titles: The Hamlet, For Whom the Bell Tolls and You Can't Go Home Again was published more than a year after author Thomas Wolfe's death.
At the movies: The Grapes of Wrath, Fantasia, Rebecca, The Baker's Wife, The Great Dictator, The Philadelphia Story and The Westerner.
January 8
Clela Jane Crawford was born and the future Woodrow Wilson High School Class of 1958 began to assemble in, around and beyond Beckley, West Virginia.