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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers have one of their greatest successes dancing in their fourth film together, Top Hat
Adolf Hitler informs Britain and France that he is building up the German armed forces, in contravention of the Versailles treaty
The German composer Kurt Weill moves to New York, where he writes Broadway musicals
Adolf Hitler reinstates Germany's airforce, the Luftwaffe, putting Hermann Goering in command
The people of the rich mining district of the Saar vote to merge with Germany
Adolf Hitler gets away with a calculated international risk when he reintroduces conscription in Germany
Frank Lloyd directs Charles Laughton and Clark Gable in a dramatic account of the famous mutiny on the Bounty
George Balanchine's new company, American Ballet, has its first brief season in New York
The Viipury Library in Finland makes the reputation of a young Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto
Mao Zedong wins control over the Chinese Communists during the Long March
In Frontier the Japanese-US sculptor Isamu Noguchi designs the first of his many sets for Martha Graham ballets
Frank Lloyd Wright designs Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania, for Edgar Kaufmann
Pablo Picasso's Minotauromachy, a masterpiece of etching, prefigures some of the themes of Guernica
Arthur Honegger's opera Joan of Arc at the Stake has its premiere in Basel
US athlete Jesse Owens sets three world records and equals a fourth within the space of less than an hour in Ann Arbor, Michigan
Strikers in Vancouver begin the On-to-Ottawa Trek, to take their grievances to government
Tortilla Flat brings success for the US novelist John Steinbeck
A truce ends armed hostilities in the three-year Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay
In A Night at the Opera the Marx Brothers make the first of their films as the famous threesome, Groucho, Harpo and Chico
Alban Berg writes his Violin Concerto, commissioned by Louis Krasner, in memory of Manon Gropius
Adolf Hitler's rearmament programme begins to reduce German unemployment, and by 1938 eliminates it entirely
T.S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral has its first performance in Canterbury cathedral
George Gallup founds the American Institute of Public Opinion and becomes the pioneer of modern polling techniques
Elias Canetti publishes the novel later translated into English as Auto da Fé
US seismologist Charles Richter devises a scale for measuring the magnitude of earthquakes
