Also on this day: Alabama becomes the fourth state to withdraw from the Union. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims the Grand Canyon National Monument. (It would become a national park in 1919.) The first enclosed sedan-type automobile, a Hudson, goes on display at the 13th National Automobile Show in New York.
Aviator Amelia Earhart begins an 18-hour trip from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif., that would make her the first person to fly solo across any part of the Pacific Ocean.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, the British foreign secretary, meet with Italian leader Benito Mussolini in Rome.
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