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| 1934 |
| | | In A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh sends his hero Tony Last to a disastrous fate, far away in the Amazon rain forest | |
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| 1934 |
| | | USSR joins the League of Nations, after Germany leaves the organization | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Swedish tenor Jussi Björling makes his debut in Stockholm, in Puccini's Manon Lescaut | |
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| 1934 |
| | | 15-year-old English ballerina Margot Fonteyn makes her first appearance, dancing as a Snowflake in Nutcracker | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Neo-Destour, a party demanding Tunisian independence, has Habib Bourguiba as its secretary general | |
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| 1934 |
| | | In a referendum 38 million German voters say yes to Adolf Hitler becoming Führer, Germany's supreme leader | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Hitler tells the party faithful in a Nuremberg rally that their new third Reich will last for 1000 years | |
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| 1934 |
| | | To escape the Kuomintang forces, the Chinese Communist army begins the Long March from Jiangxi province to Shaanxi | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Paul Hindemith's opera Mathis der Maler is banned by the Nazis and is not performed until 1938 in Zurich | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Sergei Kirov, head of the party in Leningrad, is assassinated in his office, giving Stalin the pretext for his first massive purge | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Josip Broz, a leading member of the banned Communist Party of Yugoslavia, adopts the name Tito | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Mohammed Ali Jinnah becomes president of the Muslim League in India | |
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| 1934 |
| | | Openly hostile to the Nazis, the architect Walter Gropius moves to England and three years later makes the USA his home | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have one of their greatest successes dancing in their fourth film together, Top Hat | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Adolf Hitler informs Britain and France that he is building up the German armed forces, in contravention of the Versailles treaty | |
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| 1935 |
| | | The German composer Kurt Weill moves to New York, where he writes Broadway musicals | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Adolf Hitler reinstates Germany's airforce, the Luftwaffe, putting Hermann Goering in command | |
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| 1935 |
| | | The people of the rich mining district of the Saar vote to merge with Germany | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Adolf Hitler gets away with a calculated international risk when he reintroduces conscription in Germany | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Frank Lloyd directs Charles Laughton and Clark Gable in a dramatic account of the famous mutiny on the Bounty | |
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| 1935 |
| | | George Balanchine's new company, American Ballet, has its first brief season in New York | |
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| 1935 |
| | | The Viipury Library in Finland makes the reputation of a young Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Mao Zedong wins control over the Chinese Communists during the Long March | |
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| 1935 |
| | | In Frontier the Japanese-US sculptor Isamu Noguchi designs the first of his many sets for Martha Graham ballets | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Frank Lloyd Wright designs Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, for Edgar Kaufmann | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Pablo Picasso's Minotauromachy, a masterpiece of etching, prefigures some of the themes of Guernica | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Arthur Honegger's opera Joan of Arc at the Stake has its premiere in Basel | |
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| 1935 |
| | | US athlete Jesse Owens sets three world records and equals a fourth within the space of less than an hour in Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Strikers in Vancouver begin the On-to-Ottawa Trek, to take their grievances to government | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Tortilla Flat brings success for the US novelist John Steinbeck | |
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| 1935 |
| | | A truce ends armed hostilities in the three-year Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay | |
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| 1935 |
| | | In A Night at the Opera the Marx Brothers make the first of their films as the famous threesome, Groucho, Harpo and Chico | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Alban Berg writes his Violin Concerto, commissioned by Louis Krasner, in memory of Manon Gropius | |
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| 1935-1938 |
| | | Adolf Hitler's rearmament programme begins to reduce German unemployment, and by 1938 eliminates it entirely | |
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| 1935 |
| | | T.S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral has its first performance in Canterbury cathedral | |
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| 1935 |
| | | George Gallup founds the American Institute of Public Opinion and becomes the pioneer of modern polling techniques | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Elias Canetti publishes the novel later translated into English as Auto da Fé | |
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