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The George Washington Bridge links New York with New Jersey, and is the world's longest suspension bridge with a main span of 3500 feet (1066m)
Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg's Group Theatre present their first professional production, The House of Connelly by Paul Green
Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli introduces a successful new line for women in the form of the padded shoulder
In his painting The Persistence of Memory Salvador Dali provides the disturbing image of watches drooping from the edge of flat surfaces
A new West stand is completed at Twickenham rugby ground increasing spectator capacity to 74,000, and an additional 6 acres of land are purchased.
Boris Karloff gives a touching portrayal of the monster created by Dr Frankenstein, in the first of several screen performances in the role
Adolf Hitler finally exchanges Austrian for German nationality, just in time to run for the German presidency
George V reads on radio a Christmas address (written by Rudyard Kipling), beginning an annual royal tradition
Russian-born architect Berthold Lubetkin and others set up in London the modernist firm of Tecton
The French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson has his first exhibition, in the Julien Levy Gallery in New York
US poet Archibald MacLeish publishes a narrative epic, Conquistador, about the conquest of Mexico
Charles and Anne Lindbergh's one-year-old son, Charles Jr, is kidnapped and subsequently found murdered
Japan renames the Chinese province of Manchuria, calling it Manchukuo – supposedly independent but in fact a puppet state
The Chaco War breaks out between Bolivia and Paraguay, in dispute over the swampy plain known as the Gran Chaco
One of the defining landmarks of Sydney, in Australia, is opened – the single-span steel arch bridge across the city's harbour
Adolf Hitler stands for election as president of the German republic and wins 36% of the vote
The newly formed Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo opens for its first season, with George Balanchine as ballet master
John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton are the first to split an atom, by bombarding it with accelerated protons
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes prime minister of Portugal with dictatorial powers
British author C.S. Lewis publishes a moral parable, The Screwtape Letters, about the problems confronting a trainee devil
Marcel Duchamp coins the term 'mobile' for Alexander Calder's new suspended art form
French playwright Jean Anouilh has his first play, L'Hermine, produced and published
US aviator Amelia Earhart lands in Ireland 15 hours after leaving Newfoundland, to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
British physicist James Chadwick shows that the behaviour of subatomic particles can be explained by the existence of neutrons, or particles with no electrical charge
The town of Maxim Gorky's birth, Nizhny-Novgorod, is renamed Gorky in his honour
