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Australian-born composer Percy Grainger writes variations on Handel's tune The Harmonious Blacksmith
The British Broadcasting Corporation forms a Symphony Orchestra with Adrian Boult as the first music director
The Statute of Westminster defines and formalizes the concept of the British Commonwealth
25 million peasants are moved from the land to provide cheap labour in Stalin's new factories
Six million Russian peasants die after being transported to agricultural labour camps in Siberia
The gold standard is abandoned throughout the world after massive capital outflows cause the United Kingdom to pull out of the system
Geoffrey De Havilland designs the Tiger Moth, on which nearly all British pilots were trained during World War II
The Irish government classifies the Irish Republican Army as an illegal organization
Amid political crisis Labour-leader Ramsay MacDonald forms an all-party National Government in Britain
Virginia Woolf publishes the most fluid of her novels, The Waves, in which she tells the story through six interior monologues
In Pietr-Le-Letton, the first novel published under his own name, the Belgian writer Georges Simenon introduces Inspector Maigret
Pay cuts cause British sailors in the Atlantic fleet to mutiny at Invergordon, in Scotland's Cromarty Firth
Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli introduces a successful new line for women in the form of the padded shoulder
In his painting The Persistence of Memory Salvador Dali provides the disturbing image of watches drooping from the edge of flat surfaces
Adolf Hitler finally exchanges Austrian for German nationality, just in time to run for the German presidency
George V reads on radio a Christmas address (written by Rudyard Kipling), beginning an annual royal tradition
Russian-born architect Berthold Lubetkin and others set up in London the modernist firm of Tecton
The French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson has his first exhibition, in the Julien Levy Gallery in New York
US poet Archibald MacLeish publishes a narrative epic, Conquistador, about the conquest of Mexico
The newly formed Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo opens for its first season, with George Balanchine as ballet master
John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton are the first to split an atom, by bombarding it with accelerated protons
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes prime minister of Portugal with dictatorial powers
British author C.S. Lewis publishes a moral parable, The Screwtape Letters, about the problems confronting a trainee devil
French playwright Jean Anouilh has his first play, L'Hermine, produced and published
British physicist James Chadwick shows that the behaviour of subatomic particles can be explained by the existence of neutrons, or particles with no electrical charge
