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Baseball star Ty Cobb retires with a career record of 2245 runs, that will remain unbeaten into the twenty-first century
The Marx Brothers (now Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo) make their Hollywood debut with The Cocoanuts
An American Indian teenager, Ridgely Whiteman, finds the remains of a butchered mammoth near Clovis in New Mexico - first evidence of the Clovis culture
Panic selling on Thursday October 24 triggers a Wall Street stock market crash and a spate of suicides
US author Thomas Wolfe publishes an autobiographical first novel, Look Homeward, Angel
Joseph von Sternberg directs Marlene Dietrich in the film The Blue Angel, shot in both German and English, making her an immediate international star
US author Marc Connelly's play Green Pastures has its premiere on Broadway
In The Fur Trade in Canada Harold Innis traces the economic development linking the trade and the nation
The Hays Code sets exacting standards of public decency in US movies
18-year-old Jean Harlow is a sensation in Hell's Angels, directed by Howard Hughes
The Chrysler Building opens in New York as the world's tallest skyscraper, but holds the record for only one year
US crime-writer Dashiell Hammett publishes The Maltese Falcon, the novel in which he introduces his sardonic private eye, Sam Spade
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act introduces a US protectionist policy
US golfer Bobby Jones retires after winning his thirteenth major in eight years
The verdict on Fred Astaire's first screen test, so the legend goes, is that he can't act, can't sing, is balding but can dance a little
Lewis Milestone makes a powerful film of Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front, published in the previous year
Edward G. Robinson gives a chilling portrayal of a gangster loosely based on Al Capone in the film Little Caesar
'Garbo talks' and breaks box office records in her first sound film, Anna Christie, directed by Clarence Brown
In his novel As I Lay Dying William Faulkner follows the journey of a coffin in a mule-drawn wagon
US inventor Richard Drew develops Scotch Brand Cellulose Tape, the world's first transparent tape
Wallace D. Fard founds the Nation of Islam as a black separatist movement in the USA
US author John Dos Passos publishes the first novel of his trilogy The 42nd Parallel
US choreographer Busby Berkeley moves to Hollywood to provide the first of his famous dance spectaculars, in Whoopee
The Statute of Westminster defines and formalizes the concept of the British Commonwealth
US gangster Al Capone, never convicted of murder, begins an 8-year-spell in jail for tax evasion
