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Charles and Anne Lindbergh's one-year-old son, Charles Jr, is kidnapped and subsequently found murdered
The Chaco War breaks out between Bolivia and Paraguay, in dispute over the swampy plain known as the Gran Chaco
Marcel Duchamp coins the term 'mobile' for Alexander Calder's new suspended art form
US aviator Amelia Earhart lands in Ireland 15 hours after leaving Newfoundland, to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
Presidential candidate F.D. Roosevelt pledges himself at the Democratic convention to deliver 'a new deal for the American people'
US athlete Mildred 'Babe' Didrikson breaks four world records in one afternoon in Evanston, Illinois
Ernest Hemingway, an aficionado of the sport, publishes Death in the Afternoon, a non-fiction account of bullfighting in Spain
Troops using bayonets and tear gas drive out of Washington the Bonus Army, a group of protesting unemployed war veterans
Mae West stars alongside George Raft in her first film, Night after Night
Ernst Lubitsch has a great success with Trouble in Paradise, a Hollywood comedy about villainy and romance in Paris
US novelist Erskine Caldwell publishes Tobacco Road, about white sharecroppers coping with poverty and desperation in Georgia
A deeply flawed experiment with African American syphilis patients is launched in Tuskegee, Alabama
Young Lonigan: a Boyhood in Chicago Streets is the first novel in James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy
Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan star as Tarzan and Jane in Tarzan the Ape Man, the first of countless Tarzan talkies
US author Damon Runyon publishes his first collection of stories about low-life New York, under the title Guys and Dolls
The incumbent president, Republican Herbert Hoover, suffers a heavy defeat by Democrat F.D. Roosevelt in the US election
Prohibition is lifted in the USA when the Twenty-First Amendment repeals the Eighteenth, which has been in force for 13 years
President Roosevelt gives the first of his many 'fireside chats' to the US nation on radio
Pablo Neruda increases his international reputation with a collection of surrealist poems, Residencia en la tierra ('Residence on earth')
In My Life and Hard Times James Thurber's publishes an affectionate account of his family, including the night the bed fell on his father
Lloyd Bacon directs 42nd Street, a classic backstage movie about putting a musical comedy on Broadway
Fulgencio Batista, as army chief of staff, begins a long career running the affairs of Cuba
US actress Katherine Hepburn wins the first of four Oscars in only her second film, Morning Glory
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is the largest project launched in the first hundred days of Roosevelt's New Deal
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance together for the first time on film, in Flying Down to Rio
