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Presidential candidate F.D. Roosevelt pledges himself at the Democratic convention to deliver 'a new deal for the American people'
Fianna Fáil wins enough seats in the Irish Free State's election for Eamon de Valera to form a government
US athlete Mildred 'Babe' Didrikson breaks four world records in one afternoon in Evanston, Illinois
After gaining control of most of the Arabian peninsula, Ibn Saud gives his kingdom a new name, Saudi Arabia
Ernest Hemingway, an aficionado of the sport, publishes Death in the Afternoon, a non-fiction account of bullfighting in Spain
Troops using bayonets and tear gas drive out of Washington the Bonus Army, a group of protesting unemployed war veterans
Winning 230 seats in the election, the Nazis become the largest party in the Reichstag (albeit not with a majority)
British author Aldous Huxley gives a bleak view of a science-based future in his novel Brave New World
Unemployment in Britain reaches three million, or more than 25% of the work force
Mae West stars alongside George Raft in her first film, Night after Night
Ernst Lubitsch has a great success with Trouble in Paradise, a Hollywood comedy about villainy and romance in Paris
US novelist Erskine Caldwell publishes Tobacco Road, about white sharecroppers coping with poverty and desperation in Georgia
Oswald Mosley holds his first rally in Trafalgar Square, at the head of his British Union of Fascists
John Cowper Powys's novel A Glastonbury Romance is published first in New York
De Valera withholds farmers' annuities from Britain, provoking British tariffs and a trade war
A deeply flawed experiment with African American syphilis patients is launched in Tuskegee, Alabama
Young Lonigan: a Boyhood in Chicago Streets is the first novel in James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy
Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan star as Tarzan and Jane in Tarzan the Ape Man, the first of countless Tarzan talkies
16-year-old Yehudi Menuhin records the Elgar violin concerto, conducted by the composer
US author Damon Runyon publishes his first collection of stories about low-life New York, under the title Guys and Dolls
The Bluebell Girls, formed by Margaret Kelly ('Miss Bluebell'), give their first performances in Paris
The incumbent president, Republican Herbert Hoover, suffers a heavy defeat by Democrat F.D. Roosevelt in the US election
Unemployment in Germany rises during the world-wide depression to the unprecedented level of 6 million
English fast-bowler Harold Larwood causes outrage using the 'body-line' attack, devised by his captain, Douglas Jardine, in Test matches against Australia
English conductor Thomas Beecham founds another orchestra, calling it the London Philharmonic
