Richard Hughes publishes his first novel, A High Wiind in Jamaica

Alexander, king of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, gives his kingdom the less cumbersome name of Yugoslavia

Vladimir Mayakovsky's play The Bedbug is directed in Moscow by Meyerhold with incidental music by Shostakovich

Russia adopts a Five Year Plan aiming to boost industrial output by 200% within that period

Alfred Hitchcock directs Blackmail, the first British talkie, with a climax on the roof of the British Museum

Italian writer Alberto Moravia wins success with his first novel, The Time of Indifference

20-year-old French composer Olivier Messiaen publishes eight Preludes for piano

Erich Maria Remarque publishes All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel based on his wartime experiences in the German army

George Formby makes the first records featuring what becomes his trademark, the ukulele

Blind Fireworks is Ulster writer Louis MacNeice's first collection of poems

Mies van der Rohe designs his famous Barcelona Chair for the German pavilion at the Barcelona World Fair

The British Broadcasting Corporation uses Logie Baird's system for its first trial TV broadcasts

English author J.B. Priestley has an immediate success with his first novel, The Good Companions

English poet Robert Graves puts behind him an England he dislikes in his autobiography, Goodbye to All That

René Clair blends satire and surrealism in his film Sous les Toits de Paris, a dark comedy about a Parisian street singer

The Irish National War Memorial opens in Dublin, designed by Edwin Lutyens in a garden setting

Joseph von Sternberg directs Marlene Dietrich in the film The Blue Angel, shot in both German and English, making her an immediate international star

The opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, opens in Leipzig

British inventor Frank Whittle takes out a patent for a jet engine

English author W.H. Auden's first collection of poetry is published with the simple title Poems

Adolf Hitler puts Joseph Goebbels at the head of the Nazi party's propaganda campaign

English pioneer aviator Amy Johnson makes a 19-day solo flight in a Gipsy Moth from Croydon (part of London) to Darwin, Australia

Swallows and Amazons is the first of Arthur Ransome's adventure stories for children

Wolfgang Pauli announces his mathematical proof of the existence of the particle subsequently known as the neutrino

The Allies withdraw their occupying forces from Germany's Rhineland, five years ahead of schedule