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Harold Macmillan's wife begins a long affair with Conservative MP Robert Boothby, but Harold Macmillan decides against divorce
20-year-old French composer Olivier Messiaen publishes eight Preludes for piano
Jazz musician Fats Waller begins recording with his Buddies, one of the first racially integrated groups in the US music industry
Erich Maria Remarque publishes All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel based on his wartime experiences in the German army
Arabs in the Palestinian town of Hebron turn on their Jewish neighbours and murder sixty-seven
George Formby makes the first records featuring what becomes his trademark, the ukulele
Blind Fireworks is Ulster writer Louis MacNeice's first collection of poems
Baseball star Ty Cobb retires with a career record of 2245 runs, that will remain unbeaten into the twenty-first century
Plutarco Calles establishes the National Revolutionary Party that will hold power in Mexico, under different names, for the rest of the century
Mies van der Rohe designs his famous Barcelona Chair for the German pavilion at the Barcelona World Fair
The Marx Brothers (now Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo) make their Hollywood debut with The Cocoanuts
An American Indian teenager, Ridgely Whiteman, finds the remains of a butchered mammoth near Clovis in New Mexico - first evidence of the Clovis culture
Panic selling on Thursday October 24 triggers a Wall Street stock market crash and a spate of suicides
The British Broadcasting Corporation uses Logie Baird's system for its first trial TV broadcasts
US author Thomas Wolfe publishes an autobiographical first novel, Look Homeward, Angel
US explorer Richard E. Byrd and two companions make the first flight over the South Pole, in a Ford Tri-Motor
English author J.B. Priestley has an immediate success with his first novel, The Good Companions
English poet Robert Graves puts behind him an England he dislikes in his autobiography, Goodbye to All That
René Clair blends satire and surrealism in his film Sous les Toits de Paris, a dark comedy about a Parisian street singer
The Irish National War Memorial opens in Dublin, designed by Edwin Lutyens in a garden setting
Joseph von Sternberg directs Marlene Dietrich in the film The Blue Angel, shot in both German and English, making her an immediate international star
US author Marc Connelly's play Green Pastures has its premiere on Broadway
Mahatma Gandhi leads a 240-mile march from Ahmedabad to the sea to defy the British salt tax, thus launching a campaign of civil disobedience
In The Fur Trade in Canada Harold Innis traces the economic development linking the trade and the nation
The Hays Code sets exacting standards of public decency in US movies
