January 30 –
Charlie Chaplin comedy drama film City Lights receives its public premiere at the
Los Angeles Theater with
Albert Einstein as guest of honor. Contrary to the current trend in cinema, it is a
silent film, but with a score by Chaplin. Critically and commercially successful from the start, it will place consistently in lists of films considered the best of all time.[2]
February 4 – Soviet leader
Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The
first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture.
February 10 – Official inauguration ceremonies for New Delhi as the capital of India begin.[3]
April 15 – Assassination of Giuseppe (Joe the Boss) Masseria, New York City Mafia boss.
April 17 – After the negotiations between the republican ministers of Spain and Catalonia, the Catalan Republic becomes the
Generalitat of Catalonia, a Catalan autonomous government inside the Spanish Republic.
May 5 –
İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (7th government).
May 11 – The Creditanstalt, Austria's largest bank, goes bankrupt, beginning the banking collapse in Central Europe that causes a worldwide financial meltdown.
German Chancellor
Heinrich Brüning visits London, where he warns the British Prime Minister
Ramsay MacDonald that the collapse of the Austrian banking system, caused by the bankruptcy of the Creditanstalt, has left the entire German banking system on the verge of collapse.
Anti-Chinese rioting occurs in
Pyongyang. Approximately 127 Chinese people are killed, 393 wounded, and a considerable number of properties are destroyed by Korean residents.[4]
June 14 –
Saint-Philibert disaster: The overloaded pleasure craft Saint-Philibert, carrying trippers home to Nantes from the Île de Noirmoutier, sinks at the mouth of the River
Loire in France; over 450 drown.
In an attempt to stop the banking crisis in Central Europe from causing a worldwide financial meltdown, U.S. President
Herbert Hoover issues the
Hoover Moratorium.
August 9 – A referendum in
Prussia for dissolving the Landtag ends with the "yes" side winning 37% of the vote, which is insufficient for calling the early elections. The elections are intended to remove the
Social Democratic Party (SPD) government of
Otto Braun, which is one of the strongest forces for democracy in Germany. Supporting the "yes" side were the
NSDAP, the
DNVP and the
Communist Party (KPD), while supporting the "no" side were the SPD and Zentrum.
October 11 – A rally in Bad Harzburg, Germany leads to the
Harzburg Front being founded, uniting the NSDAP, the DNVP, the Stahlhelm and various other right-wing factions.
December 8 –
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler is appointed Reich Price Commissioner, in Germany to enforce the deflationary policies of the Brüning government.
December 19 – The
UAP/
CountryCoalition, led by
Joseph Lyons, defeats the Australian
LaborGovernment, led by
Prime MinisterJames Scullin. Coming in the aftermath of two
splits in the Labor Party, the election comes about due to the defeat of the Scullin government on the floor of the
House of Representatives – to date, it is the last federal election where a one-term government was defeated. Lyons will be sworn in
January 6th the following year, but not before disbanding the Coalition, after the UAP wins enough seats to form a government in its own right.
^Jing, Xu; Dengfeng, Wang (2018). "Dual Identity and Multiple Tasks: Contemporary Chinese Party Media's Involvement in Political Communication". LCM Journal. 5 (2).
^Briton Hadden (1935).
Time. Time Incorporated. p. 54.
^ 1940 United States Census,
United States census, 1940; Sioux City, Iowa; page 480, line 13, enumeration district 97-61B. Retrieved on February 13, 2014.
^CHASE'S CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2019 : the ultimate go -to guide for special days, weeks and months. Place of publication not identified: BERNAN Press. 2018. p. 191.
ISBN9781641432641.
^Michael Coveney (May 25, 2020).
"Rolf Hochhuth Obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved October 28, 2021.
^Clark Kenschaft, Patricia (1987). "Charlotte Angas Scott". In Grinstein, Louise S.; Campbell, Paul J. (eds.). Women of Mathematics: a Biobibliographic Sourcebook. New York: Greenwood Press. p. 193.
ISBN978-0-3132-4849-8.
^Masters, Edgar Lee (1935). Vachel Lindsay : A Poet in America. p. 361.
ISBN978-0819602398.
^Miriam Drake (2003). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Second Edition - Volume II. Taylor & Francis. p. 848.
January 30 –
Charlie Chaplin comedy drama film City Lights receives its public premiere at the
Los Angeles Theater with
Albert Einstein as guest of honor. Contrary to the current trend in cinema, it is a
silent film, but with a score by Chaplin. Critically and commercially successful from the start, it will place consistently in lists of films considered the best of all time.[2]
February 4 – Soviet leader
Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The
first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture.
February 10 – Official inauguration ceremonies for New Delhi as the capital of India begin.[3]
April 15 – Assassination of Giuseppe (Joe the Boss) Masseria, New York City Mafia boss.
April 17 – After the negotiations between the republican ministers of Spain and Catalonia, the Catalan Republic becomes the
Generalitat of Catalonia, a Catalan autonomous government inside the Spanish Republic.
May 5 –
İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (7th government).
May 11 – The Creditanstalt, Austria's largest bank, goes bankrupt, beginning the banking collapse in Central Europe that causes a worldwide financial meltdown.
German Chancellor
Heinrich Brüning visits London, where he warns the British Prime Minister
Ramsay MacDonald that the collapse of the Austrian banking system, caused by the bankruptcy of the Creditanstalt, has left the entire German banking system on the verge of collapse.
Anti-Chinese rioting occurs in
Pyongyang. Approximately 127 Chinese people are killed, 393 wounded, and a considerable number of properties are destroyed by Korean residents.[4]
June 14 –
Saint-Philibert disaster: The overloaded pleasure craft Saint-Philibert, carrying trippers home to Nantes from the Île de Noirmoutier, sinks at the mouth of the River
Loire in France; over 450 drown.
In an attempt to stop the banking crisis in Central Europe from causing a worldwide financial meltdown, U.S. President
Herbert Hoover issues the
Hoover Moratorium.
August 9 – A referendum in
Prussia for dissolving the Landtag ends with the "yes" side winning 37% of the vote, which is insufficient for calling the early elections. The elections are intended to remove the
Social Democratic Party (SPD) government of
Otto Braun, which is one of the strongest forces for democracy in Germany. Supporting the "yes" side were the
NSDAP, the
DNVP and the
Communist Party (KPD), while supporting the "no" side were the SPD and Zentrum.
October 11 – A rally in Bad Harzburg, Germany leads to the
Harzburg Front being founded, uniting the NSDAP, the DNVP, the Stahlhelm and various other right-wing factions.
December 8 –
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler is appointed Reich Price Commissioner, in Germany to enforce the deflationary policies of the Brüning government.
December 19 – The
UAP/
CountryCoalition, led by
Joseph Lyons, defeats the Australian
LaborGovernment, led by
Prime MinisterJames Scullin. Coming in the aftermath of two
splits in the Labor Party, the election comes about due to the defeat of the Scullin government on the floor of the
House of Representatives – to date, it is the last federal election where a one-term government was defeated. Lyons will be sworn in
January 6th the following year, but not before disbanding the Coalition, after the UAP wins enough seats to form a government in its own right.
^Jing, Xu; Dengfeng, Wang (2018). "Dual Identity and Multiple Tasks: Contemporary Chinese Party Media's Involvement in Political Communication". LCM Journal. 5 (2).
^Briton Hadden (1935).
Time. Time Incorporated. p. 54.
^ 1940 United States Census,
United States census, 1940; Sioux City, Iowa; page 480, line 13, enumeration district 97-61B. Retrieved on February 13, 2014.
^CHASE'S CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2019 : the ultimate go -to guide for special days, weeks and months. Place of publication not identified: BERNAN Press. 2018. p. 191.
ISBN9781641432641.
^Michael Coveney (May 25, 2020).
"Rolf Hochhuth Obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved October 28, 2021.
^Clark Kenschaft, Patricia (1987). "Charlotte Angas Scott". In Grinstein, Louise S.; Campbell, Paul J. (eds.). Women of Mathematics: a Biobibliographic Sourcebook. New York: Greenwood Press. p. 193.
ISBN978-0-3132-4849-8.
^Masters, Edgar Lee (1935). Vachel Lindsay : A Poet in America. p. 361.
ISBN978-0819602398.
^Miriam Drake (2003). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Second Edition - Volume II. Taylor & Francis. p. 848.