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Russia adopts a Five Year Plan aiming to boost industrial output by 200% within that period
Alfred Hitchcock directs Blackmail, the first British talkie, with a climax on the roof of the British Museum
Italian writer Alberto Moravia wins success with his first novel, The Time of Indifference
20-year-old French composer Olivier Messiaen publishes eight Preludes for piano
Erich Maria Remarque publishes All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel based on his wartime experiences in the German army
George Formby makes the first records featuring what becomes his trademark, the ukulele
Blind Fireworks is Ulster writer Louis MacNeice's first collection of poems
Mies van der Rohe designs his famous Barcelona Chair for the German pavilion at the Barcelona World Fair
The British Broadcasting Corporation uses Logie Baird's system for its first trial TV broadcasts
English author J.B. Priestley has an immediate success with his first novel, The Good Companions
English poet Robert Graves puts behind him an England he dislikes in his autobiography, Goodbye to All That
René Clair blends satire and surrealism in his film Sous les Toits de Paris, a dark comedy about a Parisian street singer
The Irish National War Memorial opens in Dublin, designed by Edwin Lutyens in a garden setting
Mahatma Gandhi leads a 240-mile march from Ahmedabad to the sea to defy the British salt tax, thus launching a campaign of civil disobedience
British inventor Frank Whittle takes out a patent for a jet engine
English author W.H. Auden's first collection of poetry is published with the simple title Poems
English pioneer aviator Amy Johnson makes a 19-day solo flight in a Gipsy Moth from Croydon (part of London) to Darwin, Australia
Swallows and Amazons is the first of Arthur Ransome's adventure stories for children
Henri Matisse completes his Backsequence – four progressively simplified bronze relief sculptures (Nus de Dos)
French actor Jean Gabin makes his screen debut in Chacun sa Chance
Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence star in the West End in Private Lives, Coward's comedy of marital complications
British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac predicts the existence of an anti-particle of the electron, first observed two years later and named the positron
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple makes her first appearance, in Murder at the Vicarage
The airship R101, designed by a UK Air Ministry team, explodes on its maiden vogage, killing all but four of those on board
English composer John Ireland's Piano Concerto has its first performance
