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The new sound of jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman's touring band brings him the title 'King of Swing'
In Modern Times, the last film featuring the little tramp, Charlie Chaplin sets his character in a mechanistic, impersonal world
Salvador Dali creates a stir by attending the opening of London's Surrealist exhibition in a diving suit
The rest of Europe offers no effective objection when Adolf Hitler moves his troops into the demilitarized Rhineland
Frank Lloyd Wright experiments with prefabrication for low-cost housing in a style he calls Usonian (meaning 'in the US style')
On the death of his father, Fuad I, the 16-year-old Farouk becomes king of Egypt
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is founded as a public service in competition with private radio stations
US composer Aaron Copland writes El Salón México, using popular Mexican tunes
German architect Werner March designs spectacular buildings for the Berlin Olympics
The Italian forces invading Ethiopia reach Addis Ababa, and Haile Selassie flees into exile
García Lorca writes his play The House of Bernarda Alba in the last year of his short life
US author Margaret Mitchell publishes her one book, which becomes probably the best-selling novel of all time – Gone with the Wind
Stalin stages the first of the Moscow show trials, designed to eliminate any surviving high-level opponents
Membership of the Hitler Youth (for boys) or the League of German Maidens is made compulsory
In response to the gang violence of Oswald Mosley's black-shirted thugs, a Public Order Act in the UK bans political uniforms
British mathematician Alan Turing writes an influential paper On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidung Problem
Paul Robeson sings 'Ol' Man River' in the film of Jerome Kern's Showboat
Maxim Gorky dies in suspicious circumstances while undergoing routine medical treatment in the USSR
William Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom! chronicles the violently destructive rise and fall of a poor Southern white, Thomas Sutpen
John Maynard Keynes defines his economics in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Hitler gives Reinhard Heydrich control of the Gestapo
A rebellion by Spanish troops in Morocco is soon led by Francisco Franco and sparks the Spanish Civil War
Mussolini appoints his son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, as his minister for foreign affairs
In Language, Truth and Logic 26-year-old A.J. Ayer produces a classic exposition of Logical Positivism
At the Berlin Olympics, attended by Hitler, the African-American athlete Jesse Owens sets three new Olympic records and equals a fourth
