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Events relating to england
A spoof history text book, 1066 and all that, is justifiably described by its authors, Walter Sellar and Robert Yeatman, as a Memorable History of England
The British Broadcasting Corporation forms a Symphony Orchestra with Adrian Boult as the first music director
The Statute of Westminster defines and formalizes the concept of the British Commonwealth
Frederick Ashton choreographs Façade for the Camargo Society, using Walton's score
The gold standard is abandoned throughout the world after massive capital outflows cause the United Kingdom to pull out of the system
Geoffrey De Havilland designs the Tiger Moth, on which nearly all British pilots were trained during World War II
A dance company, brought together by Ninette de Valois as the Vic-Wells Ballet, begins performing at Sadler's Wells
Amid political crisis Labour-leader Ramsay MacDonald forms an all-party National Government in Britain
Virginia Woolf publishes the most fluid of her novels, The Waves, in which she tells the story through six interior monologues
16-year-old English footballer Stanley Matthews plays his first League game for Stoke City
The trilogy Mourning becomes Electra, Eugene O'Neill's transposition to New England of the Oresteia story, is performed in New York
George V reads on radio a Christmas address (written by Rudyard Kipling), beginning an annual royal tradition
Russian-born architect Berthold Lubetkin and others set up in London the modernist firm of Tecton
John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton are the first to split an atom, by bombarding it with accelerated protons
British author C.S. Lewis publishes a moral parable, The Screwtape Letters, about the problems confronting a trainee devil
British physicist James Chadwick shows that the behaviour of subatomic particles can be explained by the existence of neutrons, or particles with no electrical charge
British author Aldous Huxley gives a bleak view of a science-based future in his novel Brave New World
Unemployment in Britain reaches three million, or more than 25% of the work force
Oswald Mosley holds his first rally in Trafalgar Square, at the head of his British Union of Fascists
John Cowper Powys's novel A Glastonbury Romance is published first in New York
16-year-old Yehudi Menuhin records the Elgar violin concerto, conducted by the composer
The Bluebell Girls, formed by Margaret Kelly ('Miss Bluebell'), give their first performances in Paris
English fast-bowler Harold Larwood causes outrage using the 'body-line' attack, devised by his captain, Douglas Jardine, in Test matches against Australia
English conductor Thomas Beecham founds another orchestra, calling it the London Philharmonic
The British artist Graham Sutherland, after an early career as a printmaker, takes up painting relatively late in life
