Courts freeze the assets of Charlie Chaplin after his second wife, Lita Grey, files for divorce. Lita Grey was a 16 year old hopeful when 35 year old Chaplin married her in 1924. The bitter divorce led to a $1mn settlement for Lita.

American female aviator Amelia Earhart leaves Wheeler Field in Honolulu, Hawaii this day, on a solo flight to North America.

Hawaiian commercial interests had offered $10,000 to anyone completing the first flight. She traveled the 2,400 miles in 18 hours, landing safely at Oakland Airport in Oakland, California.

Two years after this success, she was lost somewhere in the South Pacific with copilot Frederick J. Noonan, as they attempted to fly around the world.