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1925
 
    
Film actress Greta Garbo and her director Maurits Stiller move from Sweden to Hollywood       
1925
 
   
African-American singer and dancer Josephine Baker is jazz hot in La Revue Nègre in Paris      
1927
 
    
Isadora Duncan dies in Nice when her scarf tangles in the wheel of a Bugatti sports car, breaking her neck       
1928
 
     
The Kellogg-Briand Pact is drawn up by the US and France as a pledge to renounce war        
1931
 
    
The Statute of Westminster defines and formalizes the concept of the British Commonwealth       
1932
 
    
The French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson has his first exhibition, in the Julien Levy Gallery in New York       
1933
 
     
Gertrude Stein publishes a best-selling account of her own life under the title The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas        
1934
 
    
US author Henry Miller publishes in Paris a largely sexual autobiography, Tropic of Cancer, about his life as an expatriate       
c. 1935
 
   
A collection of Constantine Cavafy's poems is published in Alexandria in an undated edition      
1936
 
    
A rebellion by Spanish troops in Morocco is soon led by Francisco Franco and sparks the Spanish Civil War