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D.H. Lawrence's new novel, in which Lady Chatterley is in love with her husband's gamekeeper, is privately printed in Florence
Evelyn Waugh succeeds with a comic first novel, Decline and Fall
Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness is the first to deal openly with a lesbian subject
English sculptor Henry Moore has his first solo exhibition, at the Warren Gallery in London
British inventor John Logie Baird secures a patent for fibreoptic imaging
The beams and threshing stones of a seventeenth-century barn from Oxted, Surrey, are reassembled in North Sheen (now Kew) to form the first barn church in Britain
In the general election Harold Macmillan loses Stockton-on-Tees to the Labour candidate, Frederick Riley
The SS, which has evolved from Hitler's personal bodyguard, is put under the command of Heinrich Himmler
Sartoris is the first of 14 novels by William Faulkner set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha County
The Tintin comic strip, by Hergé, begins with Tintin in the Land of the Soviets
Stalin concludes his long-standing rivalry with Trotsky, expelling him from the USSR three years after removing him from the Politburo
The Lateran Treaty, between the Holy See and the state of Italy, establishes the Vatican City as a free state within the wider nation
French author Jean Cocteau publishes Les Enfants Terribles, a novel about a brother and sister in a suffocatingly claustrophobic relationsip
On St Valentine's Day six members of the Bugs Moran gang in Chicago are lined up against a wall and machine-gunned by rival gangsters
Richard Hughes publishes his first novel, A High Wiind in Jamaica
Alexander, king of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, gives his kingdom the less cumbersome name of Yugoslavia
Vladimir Mayakovsky's play The Bedbug is directed in Moscow by Meyerhold with incidental music by Shostakovich
Labour is the largest party in the UK parliament but still has no overall majority, so Ramsay MacDonald forms his second minority government
Russia adopts a Five Year Plan aiming to boost industrial output by 200% within that period
Hollywood stars Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks Jr marry
Ernest Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms, closely reflecting his own wartime experiences
Alfred Hitchcock directs Blackmail, the first British talkie, with a climax on the roof of the British Museum
US astronomer Edwin Hubble uses the red shift of light from galaxies to demonstrate that they are receding from each other and the universe is expanding
Margaret Bondfield becomes the first woman to sit in the British cabinet, as minister of labour
Italian writer Alberto Moravia wins success with his first novel, The Time of Indifference
