Jean de Brunhoff's L'Histoire de Babar (The Story of Babar), the first of a popular series of children's books featuring Babar the Elephant, is published.

Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World is published.

Henri Matisse completes his painting Danse I.

Francois Mauriac's novel Le Noeud de viperes (Vipers' Tangle) is published.

Pablo Picasso paints Girl Before a Mirror.

Joseph Roth's novel Radetzkymarsch: Roman (Radetzky March) is published.

Georges Rouault paints Christ Mocked by Soldiers.

Chemists at Imperial Chemical Industries in Great Britain synthesize the first plastic.

German biochemist Gerhard Domagk discovers sulfa drugs, revolutionizing the treatment of infectious diseases.

Civil war rages in El Salvador, where Communist insurgents attack a military oligarchy.

Labour Party M.P. Oswald Mosley establishes the British Union of Fascists.

Severe famine sweeps through Russia, owing in part to Soviet agricultural policy.

4 Jan.

Mohandas Gandhi is arrested following the resumption of civil disobedience to protest...