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Siegfried Sassoon publishes Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the first volume of a semi-autobiographical trilogy
English sculptor Barbara Hepworth has her first solo exhibition, at the Beaux Arts gallery in London
Jomo Kenyatta becomes the editor of Muigwithania, the newspaper of the Kikuyu Central Association
Maurice Ravel writes Boléro as music for a ballet choreographed by Nijinska with designs by Benois
Russian author Mikhail Sholokhov publishes the first section of And Quiet Flows the Don
Stalin achieves complete personal control in the USSR after removing all his rivals from the Politburo
The Kellogg-Briand Pact is drawn up by the US and France as a pledge to renounce war
García Lorca wins fame with his book of poems Gypsy Ballads
Set in a World War I trench, the play Journey's End reflects the wartime experiences of its British author, R.C. Sherriff
Eric Fenby devotes himself to Frederick Delius, taking dictation to write down the scores of the blind composer's new works
Karol Szymanowski's Stabat Mater is performed in Warsaw and brings him international fame
All non-Fascist political activity is banned in Italy, parliament being replaced with the Fascist Grand Council
Norwegian figure-skater Sonja Henie wins the first of three individual Olympic gold medals in successive games
D.H. Lawrence's new novel, in which Lady Chatterley is in love with her husband's gamekeeper, is privately printed in Florence
Evelyn Waugh succeeds with a comic first novel, Decline and Fall
Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness is the first to deal openly with a lesbian subject
English sculptor Henry Moore has his first solo exhibition, at the Warren Gallery in London
British inventor John Logie Baird secures a patent for fibreoptic imaging
The Tintin comic strip, by Hergé, begins with Tintin in the Land of the Soviets
Stalin concludes his long-standing rivalry with Trotsky, expelling him from the USSR three years after removing him from the Politburo
The Lateran Treaty, between the Holy See and the state of Italy, establishes the Vatican City as a free state within the wider nation
French author Jean Cocteau publishes Les Enfants Terribles, a novel about a brother and sister in a suffocatingly claustrophobic relationsip
Richard Hughes publishes his first novel, A High Wiind in Jamaica
Alexander, king of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, gives his kingdom the less cumbersome name of Yugoslavia
Vladimir Mayakovsky's play The Bedbug is directed in Moscow by Meyerhold with incidental music by Shostakovich
