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John Logie Baird gives the world's first demonstration of television to a group assembled in his attic rooms in London
Russian Jewish writer Isaac Babel publishes a collection of stories, Red Cavalry, based on his own experiences in the army
The Austrian architect Adolf Loos builds a house in Paris for the Romanian dadaist poet Tristan Tzara
Miners go on strike in Britain in protest against employers' attempts to reduce wages
French author André Gide publishes his only novel, The Counterfeiters
T.E. Lawrence publishes privately his autobiographical Seven Pillars of Wisdom, describing his part in the Arab uprising
A general strike begins in Britain in support of the striking miners
To explain the irregular movement of stars, Swedish astronomer Bertil Lindblad proposes the theory that our galaxy rotates
The prime minister Stanley Baldwin uses BBC radio to broadcast a conciliatory message to the workers in Britain's general strike
The Trades Union Congress calls off Britain's general strike after nine days
19-year-old Dmitry Shostakovich wins immediate attention with the public performance of his first symphony, his graduation piece from Leningrad Conservatory
Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and the others make their first appearance in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh
British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington compares mass and luminosity in The Internal Constitution of the Stars
Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí dies after being hit by a tram, with his masterpiece the Sagrada Familia unfinished
Hugh MacDiarmid writes his long poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle in a revived version of the Lallans dialect of the Scottish borders
Karel Szymanowski's opera King Roger has its first performance in Warsaw
Eamon de Valera's faction, Fianna Fáil (Warriors of Ireland), enters mainstream Irish life as a political party
A coup in Portugal brings in a military dictatorship, in which general António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona soon emerges as the leader
Russian World War I pilot Sergey Ilyushin begins a distinguished career as an aircraft designer
The England cricketer Jack Hobbs makes the highest score of his career, 316 not out for Surrey against Middlesex
Zoltán Kodály's opera Háry J´nos has its first performance in Budapest
English choreographer Frederick Ashton creates his first ballet, A Tragedy of Fashion
Béla Bartók's ballet The Miraculous Mandarin has its premiere (in Cologne) some eight years after he began work on it
The Balfour Report, by former UK prime minister A.J. Balfour, suggests the way forward for the British Commonwealth of Nations
Jean Sibelius's tone-poemTapiola has its premiere in New York
