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Stalin expels from the Communist party his main opponents, Kamenev, Zinoviev and Trotsky
Mussolini's treaty with Ahmed Zogu gives Fascist Italy a dominant position in Albania
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill write Mahagonny Songspiel for the Baden-Baden music festival
US author Thornton Wilder achieves world-wide success with his second novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
US aviator Charles Lindbergh, in his single-engine plane Spirit of St Louis, flies solo across the Atlantic from New York to Paris
Achmed Sukarno becomes the first chairman of the new Indonesian Nationalist Party
US golfer Walter Hagen wins his fifth PGA Championship, and the fourth in succession
The fossilized tooth of a human, half a million years old and known now as Peking Man, is discovered at a site near Beijing
Henry Williamson wins a wide readership with Tarka the Otter, a realistic story of the life and death of an otter in Devon
Irish Free State president Kevin O'Higgins is murdered by members of the IRA on his way to mass
DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy, dramatized with a new title by himself and his wife Dorothy, has a great success on Broadway and in London
Hermann Hesse publishes a mystical novel, Steppenwolf, based on the concept of a double personality
In Being and Time German philosopher Martin Heidegger makes an existentialist case with Dasein ('Being There') as the central theme
Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen publishes her first novel, The Hotel
Gutzon Borglum begins the massive task of carving portraits of four US presidents in the rock face at Mount Rushmore
De Valera and his party, the Fianna Fáil, finally take their seats in the Dáil
In spite of widespread protest and grave judicial doubt Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are sent to the electric chair
Although not the first film with synchronized sound, The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson in the title role does much to popularize the 'talkies'
Virginia Woolf uses a Hebridean holiday as the setting for her narrative in To The Lighthouse
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy star together for the first time in the silent film Duck Soup
Isadora Duncan dies in Nice when her scarf tangles in the wheel of a Bugatti sports car, breaking her neck
William Randolph Hearst by now owns a nation-wide string of some 28 daily newspapers
Irish author Frank Harris publishes the fourth and final volume of My Life and Loves
The Scottish National War Memorial, designed by Robert Lorimer, is unveiled in Edinburgh Castle
Don Marquis publishes archy and mehitabel, the first collection of his sketches about archy the cockroach and mehitabel the alley cat
