May 22 - An audience at Proctor's Theatre in Schenectady, New York becomes the first to see a closed-circuit television signal projected onto a big screen.
November 5 Baird television transmissions at Hairdressing Fair of Fashion include the world's first television commercial for the Eugène Method of permanent hair waving.
November - W9XAP in Chicago, Illinois broadcasts the U.S. senatorial election returns, which was apparently the first time a senatorial race, with non-stop vote tallies, was ever televised
December 7 - W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts video from a CBS radio program, The Fox Trappers orchestra program. The broadcast also included the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I. J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
