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Maxim Gorky returns to the USSR to a rapturous reception after seven years abroad
Caribbean-born author Jean Rhys publishes her first novel, Postures, based on her affair with the writer Ford Madox Ford
The age limit for British women to vote is lowered to 21, finally giving them parity with men
Siegfried Sassoon publishes Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, the first volume of a semi-autobiographical trilogy
A second anti-Communist coup enables Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) to set up a National Government in Nanjing
Stephen V. Benét publishes a verse narrative of the Civil War under the title John Brown's Body
English sculptor Barbara Hepworth has her first solo exhibition, at the Beaux Arts gallery in London
Jomo Kenyatta becomes the editor of Muigwithania, the newspaper of the Kikuyu Central Association
Maurice Ravel writes Boléro as music for a ballet choreographed by Nijinska with designs by Benois
The Front Page, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, has its premiere on Broadway
Russian author Mikhail Sholokhov publishes the first section of And Quiet Flows the Don
Australian police massacre Aborigines near Coniston in reprisal for a murder
Stalin achieves complete personal control in the USSR after removing all his rivals from the Politburo
US anthropologist Margaret Mead makes much of trouble-free sex among natives, in Coming of Age in Samoa, but her findings are subsequently disputed
The Kellogg-Briand Pact is drawn up by the US and France as a pledge to renounce war
Ballerina Galina Ulanova graduates from the Leningrad Choreography School and joins the Maryinsky company
The Threepenny Opera, by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, opens to great acclaim in Berlin
García Lorca wins fame with his book of poems Gypsy Ballads
Set in a World War I trench, the play Journey's End reflects the wartime experiences of its British author, R.C. Sherriff
Eric Fenby devotes himself to Frederick Delius, taking dictation to write down the scores of the blind composer's new works
Hassan al-Banna, a schoolteacher in Ismailia, founds the Muslim Brotherhood – to campaign for a society based on the Qu'ran with the sharia as its legal system
Karol Szymanowski's Stabat Mater is performed in Warsaw and brings him international fame
All non-Fascist political activity is banned in Italy, parliament being replaced with the Fascist Grand Council
Republican candidate Herbert Hoover wins the US presidential election with the slogan 'a chicken in every pot'
Norwegian figure-skater Sonja Henie wins the first of three individual Olympic gold medals in successive games
