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English choreographer Frederick Ashton creates his first ballet, A Tragedy of Fashion
Béla Bartók's ballet The Miraculous Mandarin has its premiere (in Cologne) some eight years after he began work on it
The Balfour Report, by former UK prime minister A.J. Balfour, suggests the way forward for the British Commonwealth of Nations
23-year-old US crooner Bing Crosby makes his first record, singing I''ve Got the Girl with the Paul Whiteman band
Jean Sibelius's tone-poemTapiola has its premiere in New York
Walter Gropius designs buildings in Dessau as a new home for the Bauhaus
Leos Janacek's opera The Makropoulos Affair, based on the play by Karel Capek, has its first performance in Brno
US author Ernest Hemingway succeeds with his second novel, The Sun also Rises (also known as Fiesta)
Orleans House is demolished to allow for gravel extraction. The Octagon and stables are bought by the Hon Mrs Nellie Ionides and saved from demolition.
Archaeologists, excavating the bison remains at Folsom, find an ancient spear point embedded in the skeleton - first proof of the Folsom culture
Stanley Spencer completes his large visionary canvas The Resurrection: Cookham
28-year old Staffordshire potter Clarice Cliff launches a range of highly coloured geometric designs that she calls Bizarre Ware
Ernst Krenek's jazz opera Jonny Strikes Up has its premiere in Leipzig
US dancer and choreographer Martha Graham opens a School of Contemporary Dance in New York
Clara Bow stars in It, the silent film that gives her her famous nickname – the 'It' Girl
English typographer Eric Gill designs a type face without serifs, commissioned by Monotype and to be known as Gill Sans-Serif
Communists seize power in Jiangxi province and establish the first soviet republic in China
Austrian director Fritz Lang creates a wildly ambitious silent film, Metropolis, the commercial failure of which bankrupts its studio
The Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte has his first one-man show, at the Galerie Centaure in Brussels
French author François Mauriac publishes a novel of marital claustrophobia, Thérèse Desqueyroux
Mae West is sentenced to eight days in gaol when Sex, written, produced and starred in by herself on Broadway, is judged to be obscene
Right-wing Chinese army officer Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) launches an anti-Communist coup in the Canton region
British archaeologist Leonard Woolley discovers the treasures of the royal cemetery at Ur
Werner Heisenberg publishes his Uncertainty Principle, declaring that it is impossible to define precisely the position and momentum of a sub-atomic particle
The Australian parliament moves from Melbourne to a temporary Parliament House in the new federal capital at Canberra
