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The League of Nations grants Belgium a mandate to administer the former Germany colony of Ruanda-Urundi
Le Train Bleu brings together Bronislava Nijinska (choreography), Darius Milhaud (music), and Coco Chanel (costumes)
German author Thomas Mann publishes his novel The Magic Mountain
André Breton launches a new movement with his Manifesto of surrealism - Soluble fish
Ottorino Respighi's symphonic poem Pines of Rome has its first performance in Rome
The British government takes on the administration of Northern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company
Four Scottish Colourists (Cadell, Fergusson, Hunter, Peploe) exhibit together in Paris
Giacomo Puccini dies without finishing his opera Turandot, which is subsequently completed by Franco Alfani
E.M. Forster's novel A Passage to India builds on cultural misconceptions between the British and Indian communities
Christopher Robin features for the first time in A.A. Milne's When We Were Very Young
Benito Mussolini arrests opposition politicians, takes control of the press and assumes dictatorial powers in Italy
The Central Committee of the USSR removes Trotsky from his influential post as War Commissar
The Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein completes his film about the 1905 revolution, The Battleship Potemkin
Britain and other nations return to a revived version of the gold standard, under the new name of Gold Exchange Standard
Maurice Ravel and Colette provide music and libretto for the opera The Child and the Enchantments
A fashionable new style, Art Deco, derives its name from a Paris exhibition called the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs Industriels et Modernes
English writer Ivy Compton-Burnett finds her characteristic voice in her second novel, Pastors and Masters
Irish novelist Liam O'Flaherty publishes The Informer
A.J. Cook, leader of Britain's miners, insists 'Not a penny off the pay, not a minute on the day'
Virgiinia Woolf publishes her novel Mrs Dalloway, in which the action is limited to a single day
Italian poet Eugenio Montale publishes his first collection, Bones of the Cuttlefish
Film actress Greta Garbo and her director Maurits Stiller move from Sweden to Hollywood
British jockey Gordon Richards becomes champion jockey for the first of 26 times
Treaties signed at Locarno, in Switzerland, aim to stabilize and guarantee Germany's borders with France and Belgium
African-American singer and dancer Josephine Baker is jazz hot in La Revue Nègre in Paris
