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Terence Rattigan's first play, French without Tears, is performed in London
In the first month of the Spanish Civil War the playwright García Lorca is arrested and shot by rebel Falange militia
Alexander Korda's bleakly visionary film Things to Come is based on the H.G. Wells novel of 1933
On Stalin's orders Dmitry Shostakovich is attacked in Pravda for providing 'chaos instead of music'
The prototype of the Spitfire, designed by Reginald Mitchell, has its first test flight
Carl Orff's cantata Carmina Burana has its premiere in Frankfurt
Rachmaninov completes his Third Symphony, and records it two years later with the Philadelphia Orchestra
French-born US author Anaïs Nin publishes her first novel, The House of Incest
Unemployed English workers march for 26 days from Jarrow, in Tyne and Wear, to demonstrate at Westminster
Wallis Simpson wins a decree nisi against her second husband and is therefore free to marry Edward VIII
Hitler and Mussolini form an axis, or alliance, causing Germany and Italy to become known as the Axis powers
US publisher Henry Luce launches a new picture magazine, calling it simply Life
Francisco Franco is elected head of state of the insurgent Nationalist Spain, at this time controlling only a fraction of the country
The British Broadcasting Corporation puts out its first high-definition public television broadcast
The first volunteers in the International Brigade arrive in Spain to fight for the Republican cause in the civil war
The Febreristas, a newly formed left-wing group, seize power in Paraguay
The Spanish Civil War causes the Basque designer Cristobal Balenciaga to move his business to Paris, capital of the fashion world
Edward VIII informs Baldwin, the UK prime minister, that he intends to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson
Germany and Japan establish an Anti-Comintern Pact against their common enemy, the USSR
F.D. Roosevelt is elected for a second US presidential term with an increased share of the vote
Edward VIII, forced to choose between the British throne and Wallis Simpson, opts for the path of love and abdicates
Edward VIII is succeeded on the British throne by his brother, as George VI
Hungarian photographer Robert Capa achieves an unprecedented immediacy in his coverage of the Spanish Civil War
Conflicting theories about evolution begin to be brought together by scientists to establish an agreed account, which becomes known as the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis
Alan Turing publishes a paper introducing the computability theory as a branch of mathematical logic
