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The town of Maxim Gorky's birth, Nizhny-Novgorod, is renamed Gorky in his honour
Fianna Fáil wins enough seats in the Irish Free State's election for Eamon de Valera to form a government
British author Aldous Huxley gives a bleak view of a science-based future in his novel Brave New World
Unemployment in Britain reaches three million, or more than 25% of the work force
Oswald Mosley holds his first rally in Trafalgar Square, at the head of his British Union of Fascists
John Cowper Powys's novel A Glastonbury Romance is published first in New York
De Valera withholds farmers' annuities from Britain, provoking British tariffs and a trade war
16-year-old Yehudi Menuhin records the Elgar violin concerto, conducted by the composer
The Bluebell Girls, formed by Margaret Kelly ('Miss Bluebell'), give their first performances in Paris
English fast-bowler Harold Larwood causes outrage using the 'body-line' attack, devised by his captain, Douglas Jardine, in Test matches against Australia
English conductor Thomas Beecham founds another orchestra, calling it the London Philharmonic
The British artist Graham Sutherland, after an early career as a printmaker, takes up painting relatively late in life
Polish cryptographers succeed in breaking some of the Enigma code used by the German military
Hungarian photographer Brassaï publishes his photographs of the seedier side of Paris night life in Paris de Nuit
Alexander Korda directs Charles Laughton in the film The Private Life of Henry VIII
H.G. Wells publishes The Shape of Things to Come, a novel in which he accurately predicts a renewal of world war
Gertrude Stein publishes a best-selling account of her own life under the title The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Pylon group of British poets get their name from Stephen Spender's poem 'The Pylons'
Fine Gael is the name given to a new political party in Ireland, formed by the merger of several smaller groups
The Hutus and Tutsis of Ruanda-Urundi are issued with racial identity cards by the Belgians
English author Antonia White publishes an autobiographical first novel, Frost in May
George Balanchine, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht collaborate in Paris on Seven Deadly Sins, a ballet with songs
García Lorca writes his play Blood Wedding while he is director of a company touring in rural Spain
J. Arthur Rank founds the Religious Film Society to make films in Britain that will bring people to Christianity
The first Dinky Toys cars go on sale in Britain, originally under the name Modelled Miniatures
