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The opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, opens in Leipzig
British inventor Frank Whittle takes out a patent for a jet engine
The regent Ras Tafari becomes emperor of Ethiopia and takes the name Haile Selassie
Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson begin to create a garden at Sissinghurst in Kent
A military coup removes Hipolito Irigoyen from the presidency in Argentina
18-year-old Jean Harlow is a sensation in Hell's Angels, directed by Howard Hughes
English author W.H. Auden's first collection of poetry is published with the simple title Poems
Adolf Hitler puts Joseph Goebbels at the head of the Nazi party's propaganda campaign
English pioneer aviator Amy Johnson makes a 19-day solo flight in a Gipsy Moth from Croydon (part of London) to Darwin, Australia
Swallows and Amazons is the first of Arthur Ransome's adventure stories for children
The Chrysler Building opens in New York as the world's tallest skyscraper, but holds the record for only one year
Getúlio Vargas begins a 24-year personal rule in Brazil
US crime-writer Dashiell Hammett publishes The Maltese Falcon, the novel in which he introduces his sardonic private eye, Sam Spade
Wolfgang Pauli announces his mathematical proof of the existence of the particle subsequently known as the neutrino
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act introduces a US protectionist policy
The Allies withdraw their occupying forces from Germany's Rhineland, five years ahead of schedule
Henri Matisse completes his Backsequence – four progressively simplified bronze relief sculptures (Nus de Dos)
US golfer Bobby Jones retires after winning his thirteenth major in eight years
Rafael Trujillo establishes a dictatorship in the Dominican Republic that will last for 30 years
The verdict on Fred Astaire's first screen test, so the legend goes, is that he can't act, can't sing, is balding but can dance a little
Heitor Villa-Lobos composes the first of his Bachianas Brasileiras
Conservative leader R.B. Bennett defeats the Liberals and becomes prime minister of Canada
French actor Jean Gabin makes his screen debut in Chacun sa Chance
Noel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence star in the West End in Private Lives, Coward's comedy of marital complications
British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac predicts the existence of an anti-particle of the electron, first observed two years later and named the positron
