April
- 10,000 disgruntled Newfoundlanders march on their legislature to show discontent with their current political situation; this is a flash point in the demise of the
Dominion of Newfoundland.
- April 10: Paul von Hindenburg is elected president of Germany.
- April 14: John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton focus a proton beam on lithium and split its nucleus.
- April 17: Haile Selassie announces an anti-slavery law in Abyssinia.
- April 19: German art dealer Otto Wacker is sentenced to 19 months in prison for selling fraudulent paintings he attributed to Vincent van Gogh.
May
- May 2: Comedian Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time.
- May 3: Charles Fort is admitted to Royal Hospital, New York, where he dies of 'unspecified weakness', probably leukemia.
June
- June 6: Wild Talents, the final book by Charles Fort is published by Claude Kendall of New York, USA.
Charles Fort is buried in the family plot in a cemetary in Albany, New York.