Irish novelist Liam O'Flaherty publishes The Informer

The German navy adapts a civilian encryption machine, Enigma, for military purposes

A.J. Cook, leader of Britain's miners, insists 'Not a penny off the pay, not a minute on the day'

Virgiinia Woolf publishes her novel Mrs Dalloway, in which the action is limited to a single day

Italian poet Eugenio Montale publishes his first collection, Bones of the Cuttlefish

Film actress Greta Garbo and her director Maurits Stiller move from Sweden to Hollywood

British jockey Gordon Richards becomes champion jockey for the first of 26 times

Treaties signed at Locarno, in Switzerland, aim to stabilize and guarantee Germany's borders with France and Belgium

African-American singer and dancer Josephine Baker is jazz hot in La Revue Nègre in Paris

Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck has its premiere in Berlin

John Logie Baird gives the world's first demonstration of television to a group assembled in his attic rooms in London

Russian Jewish writer Isaac Babel publishes a collection of stories, Red Cavalry, based on his own experiences in the army

The Austrian architect Adolf Loos builds a house in Paris for the Romanian dadaist poet Tristan Tzara

Miners go on strike in Britain in protest against employers' attempts to reduce wages

French author André Gide publishes his only novel, The Counterfeiters

T.E. Lawrence publishes privately his autobiographical Seven Pillars of Wisdom, describing his part in the Arab uprising

A general strike begins in Britain in support of the striking miners

To explain the irregular movement of stars, Swedish astronomer Bertil Lindblad proposes the theory that our galaxy rotates

The prime minister Stanley Baldwin uses BBC radio to broadcast a conciliatory message to the workers in Britain's general strike

The Trades Union Congress calls off Britain's general strike after nine days

19-year-old Dmitry Shostakovich wins immediate attention with the public performance of his first symphony, his graduation piece from Leningrad Conservatory

Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore and the others make their first appearance in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh

British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington compares mass and luminosity in The Internal Constitution of the Stars

Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí dies after being hit by a tram, with his masterpiece the Sagrada Familia unfinished

Hugh MacDiarmid writes his long poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle in a revived version of the Lallans dialect of the Scottish borders