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All Events
The prime minister Stanley Baldwin uses BBC radio to broadcast a conciliatory message to the workers in Britain's general strike
The Trades Union Congress calls off Britain's general strike after nine days
19-year-old Dmitry Shostakovich wins immediate attention with the public performance of his first symphony, his graduation piece from Leningrad Conservatory
Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and the others make their first appearance in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh
British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington compares mass and luminosity in The Internal Constitution of the Stars
Irish dancer Ninette de Valois, recently with the Ballets Russes, opens a ballet school in London
Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí dies after being hit by a tram, with his masterpiece the Sagrada Familia unfinished
Hugh MacDiarmid writes his long poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle in a revived version of the Lallans dialect of the Scottish borders
Karel Szymanowski's opera King Roger has its first performance in Warsaw
Leos Janacek completes his powerfully scored orchestral work Sinfonietta
Eamon de Valera's faction, Fianna Fáil (Warriors of Ireland), enters mainstream Irish life as a political party
The Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) is established by the Nazi party for teenage boys
Germany joins the League of Nations, with a permanent seat on the council
25-year-old Hirohito succeeds to the imperial throne of Japan after five years as prince regent
A coup in Portugal brings in a military dictatorship, in which general António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona soon emerges as the leader
Franz Kafka's novel The Castle is published posthumously
Don Juan, starring John Barrymore, has a synchronized musical score, making it the earliest example of a film with a sound track
Dorothy Parker has a best-seller with her first collection of verse, Enough Rope
Russian World War I pilot Sergey Ilyushin begins a distinguished career as an aircraft designer
The England cricketer Jack Hobbs makes the highest score of his career, 316 not out for Surrey against Middlesex
Jelly Roll Morton and his new group of seven, the Red Hot Peppers, record their first classic, Black Bottom Stomp
Ely Culbertson devotes his playing skill and his promotional abilities to the new contract version of bridge
Zoltán Kodály's opera Háry J´nos has its first performance in Budapest
Rudolf von Laban publishes a new system of dance notation, which becomes known in English as Labanotation
Mies van der Rohe designs a monument in Berlin for the Spartacus leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
