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Jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grapelli form the Quintet du Hot Club de France
The Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss is assassinated by Nazis in a coup that fails
Kurt von Schuschnigg succeeds the murdered Dollfuss as Austria's chancellor and Hitler's opponent
In Lillian Hellman's play The Children's Hour two teachers are maliciously accused of lesbianism by one of their pupils
Paul von Hindenburg dies, enabling Adolf Hitler to combine the roles of president, chancellor and supreme commander of the German armed forces
In I, Claudius the autobiography of the Roman emperor is ghost-written by Robert Graves
Sergei Rachmaninov writes the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in his villa beside Lake Lucerne
6-year-old Shirley Temple wins instant fame after starring in Stand up and Cheer
The US military government is finally withdrawn from Haiti after nineteen years
Berthold Lubetkin and Ove Arup provide a modernist pool for the penguins in London Zoo
In A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh sends his hero Tony Last to a disastrous fate, far away in the Amazon rain forest
USSR joins the League of Nations, after Germany leaves the organization
Swedish tenor Jussi Björling makes his debut in Stockholm, in Puccini's Manon Lescaut
15-year-old English ballerina Margot Fonteyn makes her first appearance, dancing as a Snowflake in Nutcracker
Neo-Destour, a party demanding Tunisian independence, has Habib Bourguiba as its secretary general
In a referendum 38 million German voters say yes to Adolf Hitler becoming Führer, Germany's supreme leader
Hitler tells the party faithful in a Nuremberg rally that their new third Reich will last for 1000 years
To escape the Kuomintang forces, the Chinese Communist army begins the Long March from Jiangxi province to Shaanxi
Paul Hindemith's opera Mathis der Maler is banned by the Nazis and is not performed until 1938 in Zurich
Sergei Kirov, head of the party in Leningrad, is assassinated in his office, giving Stalin the pretext for his first massive purge
Josip Broz, a leading member of the banned Communist Party of Yugoslavia, adopts the name Tito
Mohammed Ali Jinnah becomes president of the Muslim League in India
Openly hostile to the Nazis, the architect Walter Gropius moves to England and three years later makes the USA his home
Third teset
The drug company Bayer announces that after years of research their team, led by Gerhard Domagk, has achieved the world's first antibiotic, to which they give the name Prontosil
