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In Down and Out in Paris and London English author George Orwell writes a sympathetic account of the people he meets on hard times
Dmitry Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District has its premiere in Leningrad's Maly Theatre
US author Henry Miller publishes in Paris a largely sexual autobiography, Tropic of Cancer, about his life as an expatriate
The first opera festival at Glyndebourne, a country house in Sussex, opens with a performance of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro
Benito Mussolini plays host in Venice to Adolf Hitler, the newcomer among European dictators
British tennis player Fred Perry wins the first of three consecutive Wimbledon singles titles
British painter Francis Bacon has his first solo show in London
Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie discover artificial radioactivity
The Scottish National Party, or SNP, is founded to campaign for an independent Scotland
Jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grapelli form the Quintet du Hot Club de France
In I, Claudius the autobiography of the Roman emperor is ghost-written by Robert Graves
Sergei Rachmaninov writes the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in his villa beside Lake Lucerne
In A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh sends his hero Tony Last to a disastrous fate, far away in the Amazon rain forest
USSR joins the League of Nations, after Germany leaves the organization
Swedish tenor Jussi Björling makes his debut in Stockholm, in Puccini's Manon Lescaut
15-year-old English ballerina Margot Fonteyn makes her first appearance, dancing as a Snowflake in Nutcracker
Neo-Destour, a party demanding Tunisian independence, has Habib Bourguiba as its secretary general
Sergei Kirov, head of the party in Leningrad, is assassinated in his office, giving Stalin the pretext for his first massive purge
Josip Broz, a leading member of the banned Communist Party of Yugoslavia, adopts the name Tito
Mohammed Ali Jinnah becomes president of the Muslim League in India
The Viipury Library in Finland makes the reputation of a young Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto
Pablo Picasso's Minotauromachy, a masterpiece of etching, prefigures some of the themes of Guernica
Arthur Honegger's opera Joan of Arc at the Stake has its premiere in Basel
T.S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral has its first performance in Canterbury cathedral
Elias Canetti publishes the novel later translated into English as Auto da Fé
