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| 1931 |
| | | Virginia Woolf publishes the most fluid of her novels, The Waves, in which she tells the story through six interior monologues | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The Japanese occupy the Chinese state of Manchuria | |
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| 1931 |
| | | 16-year-old English footballer Stanley Matthews plays his first League game for Stoke City | |
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| 1931 |
| | | In Pietr-Le-Letton, the first novel published under his own name, the Belgian writer Georges Simenon introduces Inspector Maigret | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The trilogy Mourning becomes Electra, Eugene O'Neill's transposition to New England of the Oresteia story, is performed in New York | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Pay cuts cause British sailors in the Atlantic fleet to mutiny at Invergordon, in Scotland's Cromarty Firth | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The George Washington Bridge links New York with New Jersey, and is the world's longest suspension bridge with a main span of 3500 feet (1066m) | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg's Group Theatre present their first professional production, The House of Connelly by Paul Green | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli introduces a successful new line for women in the form of the padded shoulder | |
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| 1931 |
| | | In his painting The Persistence of Memory Salvador Dali provides the disturbing image of watches drooping from the edge of flat surfaces | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Boris Karloff gives a touching portrayal of the monster created by Dr Frankenstein, in the first of several screen performances in the role | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Russian-born architect Berthold Lubetkin and others set up in London the modernist firm of Tecton | |
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| 1932 |
| | | The French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson has his first exhibition, in the Julien Levy Gallery in New York | |
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| 1932 |
| | | US poet Archibald MacLeish publishes a narrative epic, Conquistador, about the conquest of Mexico | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Charles and Anne Lindbergh's one-year-old son, Charles Jr, is kidnapped and subsequently found murdered | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Japan renames the Chinese province of Manchuria, calling it Manchukuo – supposedly independent but in fact a puppet state | |
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| 1932 |
| | | The Chaco War breaks out between Bolivia and Paraguay, in dispute over the swampy plain known as the Gran Chaco | |
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| 1932 |
| | | One of the defining landmarks of Sydney, in Australia, is opened – the single-span steel arch bridge across the city's harbour | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Adolf Hitler stands for election as president of the German republic and wins 36% of the vote | |
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| 1932 |
| | | The newly formed Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo opens for its first season, with George Balanchine as ballet master | |
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| 1932 |
| | | John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton are the first to split an atom, by bombarding it with accelerated protons | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes prime minister of Portugal with dictatorial powers | |
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| 1932 |
| | | British author C.S. Lewis publishes a moral parable, The Screwtape Letters, about the problems confronting a trainee devil | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Marcel Duchamp coins the term 'mobile' for Alexander Calder's new suspended art form | |
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| 1932 |
| | | French playwright Jean Anouilh has his first play, L'Hermine, produced and published | |
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| 1932 |
| | | US aviator Amelia Earhart lands in Ireland 15 hours after leaving Newfoundland, to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic | |
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| 1932 |
| | | British physicist James Chadwick shows that the behaviour of subatomic particles can be explained by the existence of neutrons, or particles with no electrical charge | |
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| 1932 |
| | | The town of Maxim Gorky's birth, Nizhny-Novgorod, is renamed Gorky in his honour | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Presidential candidate F.D. Roosevelt pledges himself at the Democratic convention to deliver 'a new deal for the American people' | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Fianna Fáil wins enough seats in the Irish Free State's election for Eamon de Valera to form a government | |
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| 1932 |
| | | US athlete Mildred 'Babe' Didrikson breaks four world records in one afternoon in Evanston, Illinois | |
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| 1932 |
| | | After gaining control of most of the Arabian peninsula, Ibn Saud gives his kingdom a new name, Saudi Arabia | |
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