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US astronomer Edwin Hubble proves that the nebula Andromeda is vastly further away than other stars and can only be a separate galaxy
The British rugby team touring South Africa are for the first time called the Lions
The Marx Brothers (at this stage Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Gummo) make their Broadway debut with the show I'll Say She Is
US poet Robinson Jeffers publishes his first successful collection, Tamar and Other Poems
Gracie Fields makes her name when she appears in London as Sally Perkins in the musical Mr Tower of London
The League of Nations grants Belgium a mandate to administer the former Germany colony of Ruanda-Urundi
Le Train Bleu brings together Bronislava Nijinska (choreography), Darius Milhaud (music), and Coco Chanel (costumes)
German author Thomas Mann publishes his novel The Magic Mountain
German scientist Felix Wankel builds a model of a rotary engine, thirty years before the first prototype is manufactured
André Breton launches a new movement with his Manifesto of surrealism - Soluble fish
A new German currency, the Reichsmark, is launched with the value of a trillion old marks
Ottorino Respighi's symphonic poem Pines of Rome has its first performance in Rome
The British government takes on the administration of Northern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company
Erich von Stroheim completes Greed, his epic silent film of ferociously competitive acquisition in turn-of-the-century San Francisco
Four Scottish Colourists (Cadell, Fergusson, Hunter, Peploe) exhibit together in Paris
20-year-old Chilean poet Pablo Neruda publishes one of his best-known collections, Twenty Love Poems
7-year-old Yehudi Menuhin gives his first professional recital, playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in San Francisco
A massive Conservative victory in the UK general election follows publication of the forged Zinoviev letter, and Baldwin returns as prime minister
Leos Janacek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen, based on verses by Rudolf Tesnohlídek, is premiered in Brno
US poet E.A. Robinson publishes a narrative poem, The Man Who Died Twice, about the dissipation of artistic talent
Calvin Coolidge is elected US president in his own right, winning by a wide margin over Democrat John W. Davis
Giacomo Puccini dies without finishing his opera Turandot, which is subsequently completed by Franco Alfani
The first omnibus service starts to Twickenham rugby ground, and the RFU buys 7 more acres of land.
E.M. Forster's novel A Passage to India builds on cultural misconceptions between the British and Indian communities
Christopher Robin features for the first time in A.A. Milne's When We Were Very Young
