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Events relating to england
Bristol-born actor Cary Grant moves to the USA with a troupe of touring tumblers
The Japanese potter Shoji Hamada accompanies Bernard Leach on his return to England
The Meccano company launches the first of its Hornby model trains
Sapper's patriotic hero makes his first appearance, taking on the villainous Carl Peterson in Bull-dog Drummond
D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love, a continuation of the family story in The Rainbow, is published first in the USA
The Marconi studio in the English town of Chelmsford broadcasts Dame Nellie Melba live to Europe and to ships on the Atlantic
Gustav Holst's Hymn of Jesus has its premiere in London, conducted by the composer
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot features in Agatha Christie's first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
On his return to Britain from the far east, Bernard Leach sets up a pottery studio in St Ives
The body of an Unknown Warrior, selected at random from British war graves, is buried at the entrance to Westminster Abbey
Marie Stopes and her husband set up in London a Mothers' Clinic for Birth Control, the first of its kind in Britain
Somerset Maugham's short story 'Rain' (in his collection The Trembling of a Leaf) introduces the lively American prostitute Sadie Thompson
The British airship R-38 bursts into flames on its fourth flight and crashes into the Humber
Ludwig Wittgenstein publishes his influential study of the philosophy of logic, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
The Marconi company in England pioneers a regular broadcasting service from its 2MT radio station near Chelmsford
The reputation of UK prime minister Lloyd George suffers severely when he is accused of selling peerages so as to build up a personal political fund
Winston Churchill buys Chartwell, a house in Kent that remains his home until his death
Virginia Woolf writes to Clive Bell admitting 'theft' from James Strachey
William Walton and Edith Sitwell give a private performance of their entertainment Façade, setting poems by Sitwell
British manufacturer Herbert Austin launches Britain's first car for the popular market, the Austin Seven or 'Baby Austin'
US golfer Walter Hagen wins the first of his four victories in the British Open
John Reith becomes general manager of the newly formed British Broadcasting Company
John Galsworthy publishes his novels about the Forsyte family as a joint collection under the title The Forsyte Saga
American-born poet T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land, an extremely influential poem in five fragmented sections
Lloyd George loses his majority in the House of Commons when the Conservatives vote in a Carlton Club meeting to withdraw from his coalitiion
