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Hollywood stars Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks Jr marry
Ernest Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms, closely reflecting his own wartime experiences
US astronomer Edwin Hubble uses the red shift of light from galaxies to demonstrate that they are receding from each other and the universe is expanding
Jazz musician Fats Waller begins recording with his Buddies, one of the first racially integrated groups in the US music industry
Baseball star Ty Cobb retires with a career record of 2245 runs, that will remain unbeaten into the twenty-first century
Plutarco Calles establishes the National Revolutionary Party that will hold power in Mexico, under different names, for the rest of the 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
A military coup removes Hipolito Irigoyen from the presidency in Argentina
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
Getúlio Vargas begins a 24-year personal rule in Brazil
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
Rafael Trujillo establishes a dictatorship in the Dominican Republic that will last for 30 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
Heitor Villa-Lobos composes the first of his Bachianas Brasileiras
Conservative leader R.B. Bennett defeats the Liberals and becomes prime minister of Canada
