Salvador Dali paints The Persistence of Memory.

Frida Kahlo paints Portrait of Frida and Diego, a self-portrait of the artist with her husband, muralist Diego Rivera.

Paul Klee paints The Ghost Vanishes.

Fritz Lang's movie M is released.

The planned capital of New Delhi, India, designed by British architects Edwin L. Lutyens and Herbert Baker, is formally opened.

Paul Maximilian Landowski's statue Christ the Redeemer is dedicated atop a mountain overlooking Rio de Janeiro.

Anthony Powell's novel Afternoon Men is published.

Jean Renoir's movie La Chienne (The Bitch) is released.

George Seferis's Strophe, a volume of poetry, is published.

Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves is published.

Professor Auguste Picard becomes the first human to venture into the stratosphere, ascending to a height of fifty-two thousand feet in a balloon.

26 Jan.

British authorities release Gandhi from prison.

8 Feb.

The Spanish monarchy restores the constitution and sets March as the...