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The first Dinky Toys cars go on sale in Britain, originally under the name Modelled Miniatures
25% of workers in Canada are unemployed as the Depression continues to deepen
In Down and Out in Paris and London English author George Orwell writes a sympathetic account of the people he meets on hard times
Arnold Schoenberg leaves his teaching post in Germany, now under Nazi control, and in 1934 settles in Los Angeles
Dmitry Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District has its premiere in Leningrad's Maly Theatre
Nazi architect Albert Speer designs a spectacular new setting for the party's annual Nuremberg rally
US author Scott FitzGerald publishes his novel Tender Is the Night
US author Henry Miller publishes in Paris a largely sexual autobiography, Tropic of Cancer, about his life as an expatriate
The Indian Reorganization Act restores tribal ownership of land in the US reservations
German photographer Leni Riefenstahl glorifies Hitler and the Nuremberg rally in her film Triumph of the Will
The first opera festival at Glyndebourne, a country house in Sussex, opens with a performance of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro
Five girls are born as quintuplets in the Dionne family of French Catholic farmers in Corbeil, Ontario
Anastasio Somoza, commander of the National Guard, organizes a coup in Nicaragua
Benito Mussolini plays host in Venice to Adolf Hitler, the newcomer among European dictators
British tennis player Fred Perry wins the first of three consecutive Wimbledon singles titles
British painter Francis Bacon has his first solo show in London
Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie discover artificial radioactivity
Erich Korngold, one of Austria's most admired composers, moves to Hollywood
Elijah Muhammad takes control of the Nation of Islam, or Black Muslims, and leads the movement for more than 40 years
The bottom of Kew Pond is concreted
Adolf Hitler visits his SA commander, Ernst Roehm, in his hotel before having him shot
Multiple murders are carried out on Hitler's orders during the Night of the Long Knives
In addition to the SS, Heinrich Himmler is given command of the state secret police, or Gestapo
The Scottish National Party, or SNP, is founded to campaign for an independent Scotland
Australian author Christina Stead publishes a first novel based on her own family, Seven Poor Men of Sydney
