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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
Adolf Hitler gives Karl Dönitz, a submarine commander from World War I, responsibility for Germany's U-boat programme
The Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz describes his experiments on young geese, with their capacity to imprint on human beings
Adolf Hitler promulgates a law prohibiting any sexual relationship between Jews and 'Aryans'
Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges publishes A Universal History of Infamy, one of the first examples of magic realism
French cabaret singer Edith Gassion acquires the nickname la môme piaf ('the little sparrow'), and so becomes Edith Piaf
The mighty Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam in 1947) is completed on the Colorado River
Marie Rambert's London-based company, deriving originally from her school, takes the name Ballet Rambert
Leningrad's opera and ballet company is renamed the Kirov, in memory of the city's recently assassinated commissar
US industrialist Howard Hughes sets a new speed record of 352 mph, flying a plane designed by himself
New Nazi laws announced at Nuremberg strip Jews of their German citizenship
Italian baritone Tito Gobbi makes his operatic debut in Gubbio in Bellini's La Somnambula
Mussolini uses a disagreement over grazing rights as a pretext for an empire-building invasion of Ethiopia
A collection of Constantine Cavafy's poems is published in Alexandria in an undated edition
W.L. Mackenzie King starts another long spell, of thirteen years, as Canadian prime minister
The survivors of the Long March reach safety in Shaanxi province in northwest China
R.K. Narayan's novel Swami and Friends is the first set in his fictional town of Malgudi
British publisher Allen Lane launches a paperback series to which he gives the name Penguin Books
George Gershwin's 'folk opera' Porgy and Bess, based on the novel by DuBose Heyward, opens on Broadway
Within the National government Ramsay MacDonald cedes the role of prime minister to the Conservative leader, Stanley Baldwin
Kim Il Sung leads a Communist guerrilla campaign against the Japanese occupation of Korea
US jazz pianist William ('count') Basie acquires his own orchestra
Alban Berg's opera Lulu is incomplete when the composer dies
George V dies and is succeeded on the British throne by his eldest son Edward VIII
