June 10 – The German
rail zeppelin (
Schienenzeppelin), an experimental propeller driven railcar, sets up a new world railway speed record of 230 km/h on its way from
Hamburg to Berlin which was not surpassed by any other train for 24 years.
September 12 – Just outside
Budapest, a bomb planted by a Hungarian
Fascist destroys a section of the Biatorbágy Viaduct, plunging the
Orient Express into the ravine below. Twenty people are killed. Entertainer
Josephine Baker, one of the surviving passengers, gives an impromptu concert to calm other survivors.
January 13 –
Kálmán Kandó, Hungarian engineer who designed the world's first
AC traction electric railway in Italy in 1902 (born 1869).
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