1931
The Road Traffic Act came into effect.
John Watt's satirical revue World For Sale broadcast.
The postponement of the First Division match between Leeds United and Arsenal caused an hour-long hole in the BBC radio schedules as the intention had been to cover the second half live from Elland Road.
An adaptation of Milton's masque Comus broadcast.
Robert Selden Duvall born in San Diego. The second test at Cape Town was drawn. This was the first test in South Africa to be played on a turf pitch - all of the country's previous forty tests had been played on matting wickets. Patsy Hendren top-scored in both of England's innings.
The first episode of Mrs St Loe Strachey's Yesterday & Today broadcast.
Robert Z Leonard's The Bachelor Father - starring Marion Davies, C Aubrey Smith and Ray Milland - premiered.
Edward F Cline's The Naughty Flirt - starring Myrna Loye, Alice White and Paul Page - premiered.
Ian Mackendrick Hendry born in Ipswich.
James Earl Jones born in Arkabutla, Mississippi.
Patricia Amy Rowlands born in Palmer's Green.
The third test in Durban was drawn. For England, Wally Hammond scored an undefeated century and Bill Voce and Jack White took six wickets.
MPs defeated the Education Bill, which would have raised the minimum school-leaving age from fourteen to fifteen.
Samuel Cook born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. In a little tin shack.
Alfred Cornelius Lynch born in Whitechapel.
John Richard Hopkins born in London.
Winston Churchill resigned from the shadow cabinet after disagreeing with the policy of conciliation with Indian nationalism. Patricia Elvira Hake born in Essex.
Charlie Chaplin's City Lights premiered. PG Wodehouse's Big Money was published.
Leslie Dawson born in Collyhurst, Manchester. John Glynn Edwards born in Penang, Malaya.
A Royal Air Force Blackburn Iris flying boat plunged into Plymouth Sound and exploded, killing nine of its crew.
James Byron Dean born in Marion, Indiana.
Barbara Young born in Brighouse, West Yorkshire.
Does Tradition Hinder Progress featured a discussion between The Right Honourable Lord Eustace Percy and Sir Oswald Mosley. Tod Browning's
Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi, premiered at the Roxy Theatre in New York. Japan conducted its first television broadcast, showing a baseball game.
Charles Eglerton Hyatt born in Kingston, Jamaica.
Gerald Harper born in London. Patricia Claire Bloom born in Finchley.
In the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a mentally disturbed man attacked the 1656 Rembrandt painting The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Deijman, slashing it five times with an axe. Margaret Ashcroft born in Chelsea.
The fourth test at Johannesburg ended in a drawn. Maurice Leyland top-scored in both of England's innings. Ian Peebles took six for sixty three in South Africa's first innings. Harry Lee and Bill Farrimond made their test debuts.
Edward George Sherrin born in Low Ham, Soimerset.
The Ray Noble Orchestra's recording of 'Goodnight Sweetheart' (with Al Bowlly on vocals) was cut.
Dennis Brian Close born in Rawdon.
The fifth test at Durban was drawn meaning that south Africa won the series one-nil. The start of the match was delayed by twenty minutes because the correct sized bails we unavailable and the umpire had to make two sets.
Josephine Ann Tewson born in Hampstead.
In the Sixth Round of the FA Cup, Everton hammered Southport nine-one at Goodison Park. Dixie Dean scored four.
Having flounced out of the government in a stroppy huff, Oswald Mosley formed the New Party. Gaining enthusiastic support from the Daily Scum Mail, Mosley and his Blackshirt thugs would soon become the British Union of Fascists. And then, it all kicked-off, big-style. In related news, Albert Speer joined the Nazi Party.
Sir Charles Trevelyan resigned as President of the Board of Education due to his education bill failing to pass. Mikhail Gorbachev born in Privolnoye. Tom Wolfe born in Richmond, Virginia. Bing Crosby recorded 'Just A Gigolo'.
Cab Calloway & His Orchestra recorded 'Minnie The Moocher'.
Mahatma Gandhi and Viceroy of India, Lord Irwin, signed an agreement to end the Indian civil disobedience campaign. In return, citizens along the coast were allowed to make their own salt, all political prisoners were given amnesty and a second Round Table Conference on the matter of Indian independence would be held in London.
Carlo Campogalliani's Medico Per Forza - starring Ettore Petrolini, Tilde Mercandalli and Letizia Quaranta - premiered.
David Alec Webb born in Luton.
Brian Leonard Hayles born in Portsmouth.
The earliest confirmed use of the word 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' appeared in the Syracuse Daily Orange.
Toby Robins born in Toronto.
James Ellis born in Belfast.
The first electric razors, manufactured by the Schick Company, went on sale in New York. John Alexander Fraser born in Glasgow.
Chemist Maximilian Toch gave a speech at the American Museum of Natural History saying that after studying thirty Rembrandt paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he believed that twenty nine of them were forgeries.
The Royal Scot express train derailed outside the Leighton Buzzard station, killing six people. William Shatner born in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal. Leslie Thomas born in Newport, Wales.
Kenneth William Michael Haigh born in Mexborough.
Leonard Nimoy born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Soctland defeated England two-nil at Hampden Park in the Home Ineternational championship. John McPhail and Jimmy McGrory scored for the hosts. Bert Roberts of Arsenal and Chelsea's Jackie Crawford made their England debuts. Harry Bedford scored twice as Newcastle United won the Tyne-Wear derby two-nil in the First Division. League leaders Arsenal won five-two at Middlesbrough (Jack Lambert netting three). Aston Villa defeated Blackpool four-one, Grimsby Town defeated Birmingham by the same score and Sheffield Wednesday thumped Leicester City four-nil. Manchester United appeared certain to be relegated after losing two-one at home to Sheffiled United during a wretched season in which they lost all of their first twelve games. Nottingham Forest's three-nil victory over Swansea Town in the Second Division saw an incredible three first-half penalties missed. Swansea's Alex Ferguson saved the first from Billy Simpson, before Johnny Dent missed Forest's second and then Forest's Arthur Dexter stopped Billy Easton's twice-taken kick for Swansea. Everton lost two-nil at Stoke City but remained eight points clear at the top of the table.
Bad Sister - starring Conrad Nagel, Sidney Fox, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart - premiered. Phillip Arthur Joseph Bilodeau born in Vancouver. The body of a school bus driver, Carl Miller, was found in a field in Colorado. He had been stranded in his bus with twenty children aged seven to fourteen in an unexpected blizzard, three days earlier and he had set off to find help. Visibility was so bad that he did not know they were only a mile from a rancher's house and he had walked for three miles in opposite direction. His hands were cut from trying to use a barbed-wire fence to guide him. The surviving children, dressed for a warm spring day, were all suffering from hypothermia by the time that they were found after thirty three hours in the bus which was woefully inadequate for the conditions, with broken windows and no heating. Three had died and two more, including Miller's daughter, died that night.
EMI was founded following a merger between the Columbia Graphophone Company and the record label His Master's Voice.
George Morris Baker born in Varna, Bulgaria.
David Bernard Swift born in Liverpol.
Jean Dudley born in Rotherham.
Beryl Frances Johnson born in Croydom.
Jon Roger Rollinson born in Birmingham.
Berlin police Vice President Bernhard Weiß won a defamation lawsuit against Joseph Goebbels, who was ordered to pay fifteen hundred Reichsmarks. Kenneth Charles Cope born in Liverpool.
Godfrey James born in London.
Arsenal won their first Football League title. Runners-up Aston Villa scored one hundred and twenty eight goals in forty two games, a First Division record. Their top scorer was centre-forward Tom Pongo Waring whose fifty goals in all competitions set a record that would not be equalled in the English top-flight until 2023. Leeds United and Manchester United were relegated. The latter lost fourteen matches in a row to create a record for most consecutive losses. It was eventually beaten by Sunderland in 2002. Everton (with Dixie Dean scoring thirty nine times) and FA Cup winners West Bromwich Albion were promoted to the First Division. Nelson finished bottom of the Third Division (North) and failed in their application for re-lection, replaced the following season by Chester. Newport County, in the Third Division (South), also failed re-election and were replaced by Mansfield Town of the Midland League.
Thomas Timothy Garfield Morgan born in Birmingham.
The Public Enemy - starring James Cagney and Jean Harlow - premiered.
West Bromwich Albion beat Birmingham City two-one in the FA Cup Final at Wembley with two goals from Ginger Richardson. The Porsche automobile company was founded in Stuttgart.
Anthony James Donegan born in Glasgow.
Stephen Thomas Dartnell born in West Ham.
The Empire State Building, the tallest building in the world, opened in New York.
Douglas Gaston Sydney Camfield born in India.
Valerie Jeanne Wilkinson born in Southport.
Hermann Göring met with Benito Mussolini in Rome. Babe Stafford's The Cowcatcher's Daughter - starring Majorie Beebe, Andy Clyde and Harry Gribbon - premiered.
The Fritz Lang-directed film M premiered in Berlin.
Harry Baird born in Georgetown, British Guyana.
Paul Doumer elected president of France. Just under a year later, he would be assassinated at a book fair at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild by a Russian émigré, Paul Gorguloff, who felt that France should have actively opposed the rise of Bolshevism in his country. Gorguloff was indicted for murder and executed by guillotine four months later.
England lost five-two against France in a friendly international in Paris. Sammy Crooks and debutant Tom Waring were on-target for the visiotrs. Huddersfield Town's Hugh Turner, Nottingham Forest's Tom Graham and Aston Villa's Joe Tate also made their international debuts.
England defeated Belgium four-one in a friendly international in Brussels. An Eric Houghton penalty gave them the lead, Harry Burgess scored twice and Millwall's Harry Roberts, making his debut, added the fourth. Professor Albert Einstein lectured on his special theory of relativity at Oxford University, in which he presented his intention to identify the mathematical rules that govern the expansion of the universe. His theories were held in such high esteem that the blackboard that he used was taken away and preserved, complete with his chalked equations.
Trevor Edward Peacock born in Edmonton, Middlesex.
Michael Spice born in London.
Michael Edward Lonsdale-Crouch born in Paris.
The Royal British Legion voted to refer to 11 November as 'Remembrance Day' rather than 'Armistice Day'.
In Augsburg, Professor Auguste Piccard and physicist Paul Kipfer took off in an airtight ball attached to a hydrogen balloon in an attempt to be the first men to reach the Earth's stratosphere. They attained an altitude of over fifty thousand feet and then landed in the Austrian Alps after more than eighteen hours in the air.
Peter Everett born in Hull.
The House of Commons approved a law abolishing the death penalty for pregnant women and replacing it with life imprisonment.
Cameronian won The Derby. It was the first Epsom Derby to be televised. Salvador Dalí opened his second solo exhibition at the Pierre Colle Gallery in Paris. It was at this show that the painting destined to become his most famous, The Persistence Of Memory, was publicly displayed for the first time.
The Dogger Bank earthquake became the strongest such event to strike the United Kingdom measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale. Michael John Pratt born in London. Virginia Anne McKenna born in Marylebone.
June Thorburn born in Karachi. Kenneth John Fortescue born in Kew.
Amelia Earhart crashed in Abilene, Kansas during an attempt to make the first transcontinental flight in an autogyro, but she and her mechanic were unhurt.
Robert Leonard's Five & Ten - starring Marion Davies, Leslie Howard, Richard Bennett and Douglass Montgomery - premiered.
Lord Howe and Sir Henry Birkin won the Le Mans endurance race. Kenneth Charles Cope born in Liverpool.
The Labour government was defeated in a surprise vote in the House of Commons on a minor amendment in the land tax bill, but it refused to accept the defeat as cause for resignation because many benches were empty. A second vote was called, which the government won by fourteen votes.
Edward George Caddick born in Finsbury.
Kenneth Gilbert born in Plymouth.
The first of a three test series against New Zealand at Lord's was drawn. Ian Peebles took nine wickets in the match whilst Les Ames and Gubby Allen scored centuries as did the tourists' Stewie Dempster. Fred Bakewell and Johnny Arnold made their test debuts. Zia Mohyeddin born in Lyallpur, India.
A fistfight broke out in the House of Commons. It began when Labour MP John McGovern criticised the arrest of two Scottish preachers for holding meetings on the Glasgow Green without permits. McGovern refused to sit down when he was not satisfied with the Secretary of Scotland's reply and remained standing even after being suspended from the House. A half-dozen attendants arrived and tried to drag McGovern out of the chamber by force, but they were attacked by several Labour MPs. The fight - with kids gettin' sparked and aal sorts - lasted until McGovern was finally dragged out of the chamber by the scruff of his neck and booted into the gutter outside. Frank John Williams born in Edgware.
Sidney Wood was declared the men's champion at Wimbledon by walkover when Frank Shields pulled out of the final due to a leg injury. Shields had wanted to play, but the US Tennis Association ordered him to forfeit so he would be ready for the Davis Cup.
The British cruisers HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Norfolk docked in the port of Kiel, the first time British warships visited Germany since July 1914.
Donal Donnelly born in Bradford.
Michael Powell's directorial debut, Two Crowded Hours - starring John Longden and Jane Welsh - premiered.
Ramsay MacDonald, David Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin made a plea for disarmament in an international radio address, Arms & The People, from Royal Albert Hall.
Alan James Gwynne Cellan Jones born in Swansea.
Robert Graham Stephens born in Bristol. Stanley Meadows born in Stepney.
Lenard George Green born in West Ham.
A bomb was discovered at St Peter's Basilica by a janitor. It was moved to a nearby meadow where it exploded. Robert Banks Stewart born in Edinburgh. Susan Rennie Stephen born in London.
An accident occurred on the set of the film Scarface when some dynamite caps exploded prematurely, injuring four actors and bystander Gaylord Lloyd (Harold Lloyd's brother), who was struck in the right eye.
Edgar Wallace's The Sooper Speaking. The Royal Mail Case trial began at the Old Bailey. The director of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, Lord Kylsant, was accused of publishing a fraudulent balance sheet. Kylsant was, subsequently, found extremely guilty and sentenced to a year in The Slammer. Roy William Skelton born in Nottingham.
Bryan Mosley born in Leeds.
International Bible Students unanimously and officially adopted the name Jehovah's Witnesses at a conference in Columbus, Ohio.
Guthrie Harvey Hallsmith born in St Columb Minor, Cornwall.
Brian Horace Clemens born in Croydon.
Arriving in Warsaw after his recent visit to the Soviet Union, George Bernard Shaw said that other countries must follow the USSR's 'remarkable example,' adding: 'Unlike the Western politicians, who are working for their own benefit, the Russian rulers are working for the people and for their country. I am a confirmed Communist, as I was before Lenin and even more so after seeing Communist Russia. Talk of forced labour in Russia is rubbish. There is more slavery in other countries.' Shaw also described mass-murdering fucker Joseph Stalin as 'a most honest and able man.' England won the second test at The Oval by an innings and twenty six runs. Centuries by Herbert Sutcliffe, Duleepsinhji and Wally Hammond led England to a big total and New Zealand, lacking Stewie Dempster who was injured, wilted against Gubby Allen, who took five for fourteen in thirteen overs. Only Tom Lowry, with sixty two, previous any resistance and Maurice Tate, though taking only one wicket, bowled eighteen overs for just fifteen runs. Following on, New Zealand's batsmen struggled again. The match, which had lost some time to rain, was over in the mid-afternoon of the third day. Freddie Brown and Hedley Verity made their test debuts.
Patricia Heywood born in Gretna Green.
Maureen Connell born in Nairobi.
In Los Angeles, Marlene Dietrich was named as 'the other woman' in the legal hearing of lawsuits filed by Riza Royce, wife of director Josef von Sternberg.
Alethea Blow Charlton born in Middlesbrough.
James Parrott's Pardon Us - the first full-length comedy starring Laurel and Hardy - premiered.
The third test at Old Trafford was drawn. Rain ruined the match and a start could not be made until midway through the last afternoon. Herbert Sutcliffe, with an unbeaten one hundred and nine, scored his second century of the series. Eddie Paynter made his test debut.
The Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald extremely resigned and was replaced by a National government drawn from members of all parties (but, mostly Conservatives) also under MacDonald's nominal leadership.
John Peter Gilmore born in Leipzig, Germany.
Winning their final match of the season by nine wickets against Sussex at Hove, Yorkshire claimed their first cricket county championship title since 1925 with Hedley Verity taking thirteen wickets in the match. Gloucestershire finished second and Kent third. Middlesex's Patsy Hendren was the championship's leading run-maker (two thousand one hundred and twenty two) whilst, for the fourth year running, Kent's Tich Freeman was the leading wicket-taker (two hundred and forty one). Yorkshire's Herbert Sutcliffe topped the first class batting averages (three thousand and six runs at 96.96). Nottinghamshire's Harold Larwood took one hundred and thirty five first-class wickets at 12.03.
The Labour Party voted to oust Ramsay MacDonald as its leader. Former foreign secretary Arthur Henderson was named as his successor.
Mahatma Gandhi set sail on the SS Rajputana from Bombay to Marseilles en route to the Round Table Conference in London. 'I see nothing on the horizon to warrant hope, but I am an optimist and I am hoping against hope. For me the service of India is identical with the service of humanity,' Gandhi said.
John Thomson, the Glasgow Celtic goalkeeper died in hospital after fracturing his skull in a collision with Rangers forward Sam English during the Old Firm derby at Ibrox.
Jack Morris Rosenthal born in Manchester.
Margaret Maud Tyzack born in West Ham.
Mahatma Gandhi arrived in London to attend the Round Table Conference on Indian independence. He took a small room at Kingsley Hall in the city's East End. Ian Holm Cuthbert born in Goodmayes, Essex.
RCA Victor introduced the LP record in a demonstration at the Savoy-Plaza Hotel in New York. However, they were too expensive at the time to be commercially successful. Anna Maria Louisa Italiano born in New York. Ian Fulton Fairbairn born in Liverpool.
Geli Raubal, the half-niece (and, allegedly, lover) of Adolf Hitler was found extremely dead in Hitler's München apartment. The death was recorded as suicide.
Monkey Business - starring The Marx Brothers - premiered.
Britain decided to abandon the gold standard. John Ford's The Brat - starring Sally O'Neil - premiered.
Larry Martin Hagman born in Forth Worth.
Charlie Chaplin visited Mahatma Gandhi in Canning Town. Franklin Birkinshaw born in Birmingham.
Anthony Newley born in Hackney.
Mahatma Gandhi visited the Lancashire cotton mills. Despite the Indian boycott damaging the British textile industry, Gandhi was cheered by workers. Scotland Yard raided the offices of the Daily Worker due to articles printed last week about the Invergordon Mutiny.
The Ministry of Labour reported 2.8 million out of work, a new record. Erik Charell's Der Kongreß Tanzt - starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Otto Wallburg and Conrad Veidt - premiered.
London police clashed again with the unemployed outside the Bow Street police station and Magistrates' Court where many of those arrested in the previous evening's disturbances were being arraigned.
Rioting broke out again in Glasgow when police stopped a crowd from marching on Glasgow Green. MP John McGovern was among those arrested for hitting a policeman. Hard. William Beaudine's Penrod & Sam - starring Leon Janney and Frank Coghlan Jr - premiered.
A mob of unemployed demonstrators in Manchester were repulsed trying to storm Town Hall while the council was in session. The protesters then sat in the street and refused to budge until they were dispersed by police batons and fire hoses.
Anthony George Booth born in Liverpool.
The firtst episode of Edgar Wallace's The World Of Crime broadcast. Leslie Hutchinson, Jeanne De Casalis and Doris and Elsie Waters featured on Vaudeville. Victor Pemberton born in islington.
The Christ The Redeemer statue overlooking the city of Rio de Janeiro was dedicated.
The Noël Coward play Cavalcade premiered at Drury Lane.
Criminals I Have Met broadcast in The World Of Crime strand. Gangster Al Capone was sentenced to eleven years in The Big House for tax evasion in Chicago. Thomas Edison died in New Jersey. His multiple achievements included the first playback of a sound recording, on a phonograph in 1877, the patenting of the one of the first commercially successful electric lightbulbs a year later and the introduction of the kinetoscope in 1891 which showed some of the first short motion-pictures in penny arcades. On the day of Thomas Edison's funeral, four days later, the United States plunged itself into darkness for one minute at 10pm Eastern time to mourn his passing. England beat Ireland six-two in the Home International championship at Windsor Park. Tom Waring and Eric Houghton both scored twice with additional goals from Ernie Hine and Portsmouth's Jack Smith making his international debut. Jimmy Duinne and Derry City's Jimmy Kelly netted for the hosts. In the First Division, Newcastle United won three-nil at Blackburn Rovers, Aston Villa beat Portsmouth by the same score and league leaders West Bromwich Albion lost two-one at home to Liverpool. This allowed Everton to go level with The Throstles with a game in hand after they thrashed Sheffield Wednesday nine-three (Dixie Dean, i9nevitably, scoring five). Bury topped the Second Division following a four-one victory over Preston North End. Leeds United, in the midst of a run of nine straight victories, beat Wolverhampton Wanderers two-one.
David John Moore Cornwell born in Poole, Dorset.
Diana Mary Fluck born in Swindon.
A Sooper Story broadcast in The World of Crime strand. Lloyd Corrigan's The Beloved Bachelor - starring Dorothy Jordan - premiered.
Another General Erection was held. The informal coalition known as The National Government won a commanding five hundred and fifty four seats, with the Conservative Party winning four hundred and seventy of them. The Labour Party was reduced to forty six seats. Ramsay MacDonald, running as a candidate for the new National Labour party, was re-elected to lead the coalition. Oswald Mosley's New Party had a disastrous showing, garnering only a tiny vote and failing to win a single seat.
Scotland Yard & Its Criminals broadcast in The World of Crime strand.
David Lloyd George officially stepped down as Leader of the Liberal Party and was succeeded by Sir Herbert Samuel. Several MPs joined Lloyd George's break from the Liberals to sit in Parliament as a small voting-bloc known as the Independent Liberals.
Despite the relative failure of the second Round Table Conference on Indian independence, Mahatma Gandhi was invited to have tea with King George V at Buckingham Palace. Prior to his arrival reporter asked Gandhi, 'do you think you are properly dressed to meet the King?" Gandhi replied: 'Do not worry about my clothes. The King has enough clothes on for both of us.' Meanwhile, Winston Churchill displayed one of the least attractive sides to his personality when noting: 'It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mister Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal palace to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor.' Twat.
A Steward Story, Dealing With Transatlantic Card-Sharpers broadcast in The World of Crime strand. James Arnold Rio Fanning born in Newry, County Down. Ginger Richardson scored four goals in five minutes for West Bromwich Albion against West Ham United at Upton Park in the First Division, a record that is still in the Guinness Book Of Records. West Brom won five-one. Everton drew nil-nil at Huddersfield to remain top of the league. Fifty three goals were scored in eleven top flight matches including Newcastle's three-two victory over Arsenal and Aston Villa's five-one win against Blackpool.
King Vidor's The Champ - starring Wallace Beery - premiered.
Donald Francis Henderson born in Leytonstone.
EMI's state-of-the-art Abbey Road Studios in St John's Wood was opened by Sir Edward Elgar. A Spanish commission announced its findings that former king Alfonso XIII was guilty of lèse-majesté under the Constitution of 1876 which the commission argued placed the people as co-sovereign with the king. The commission recommended that Alfonso be 'condemned to disgrace,' his property confiscated and that he be executed if he ever set foot in the country again. Brian Rawlinson born in Stockport.
Adrienne Riccoboni born in Glasgow.
How To Protect Your Home broadcast in The World Of Crime strand. Jennifer Jayne Jones born in Yorkshire.
Kenneth Watson born in London.
An inquest was adjourned due to the mysterious lack of identification from a double shooting in a Southampton hotel which left one man dead and a woman seriously ill, from gunshot wounds. The mystery was eventually solved and the inquest concluded, five months later. It transpired that the couple, Roland Draper, and his lover, Gladys Tressider, had conspired to die together in a suicide pact and had attempted to destroy everything that could identify them. Draper had shot Gladys and then turned the gun on himself. The woman survived because the bullet missed her heart, but she was left paralysed from the waist down.
England defeated Wales three-one in the Home International championship at Anfield. Jack Smith, Sammy Crooks and Ernie Hine netted for England, Walter Robbins of Cardiff City replied for the visitors. Everton's Charlie Gee and Arsenal's Cliff Bastin made their England debuts.
The Arnold Bax composition Overture To A Picaresque Comedy was performed for the first time in Manchester. At the Central Criminal Court in London, before the Recorder Sir Ernest Wild, George England a seventen year old porter and Thomas Elvins, eighteen, a fitter, pleaded guilty to assaulting Montague Joseph Golding, a messenger boy. England was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment with fifteen strokes of the birch and Elvins to nine months' imprisonment with eighteen strokes of the birch. Mister Christmas Humphreys, prosecuting, said the two youths 'lay in wait' for Golding and then attacked and struck him on the head with a piece of lead piping. Both boys 'had good homes and employment' and without any apparent reason or excuse deliberately assaulted 'this inoffensive boy.' In passing sentence, the recorder said this type of offence, armed robbery, was becoming 'quite prevalent in this country.' Some people attributed it to the sensational press and the cinemas, but the real cause was 'a lack of discipline, morals, or religion on the part of many young men of today.' The following day, Wild was handing out further sobering sentence. Eleven months' imprisonment with eighteen strokes of the birch on Horace Stanley Charles Cant a twenty two year old lorry driver, who, with three other youths, pleaded guilty to charges of stealing a motor-car and committing a robbery at Leatherhead. The same birching, with eight months' imprisonment was ordered for Frank William Roy McMillan, Frank Herbert Ruddle and John Kraeusslach. It was stated that Cant had worked for the United Caterers, of Leatherhead and knew the manageress, Miss Plesants, 'was accustomed to put the firm's takings into paper bags and carry them home with her to Sutton.' On 10 October a car was stolen in Balham and at nine o'clock the same night, when Miss Plesants was carrying home the money in an attaché case, she was struck on the back of the neck and the case was wrenched from her grasp. After passing the sentences, Wild told Miss Plesants: 'I want you to get your nerves right. The law will protect you and all other women from ruffians like these. I will order that you receive five pounds from the public funds to buy something to remember that fact that you are a brave woman.'
The Abnormal Importations Act received royal assent after a rushed passage through Parliament. Rolls-Royce acquired Bentley Motors.
Frankenstein - directed by James Whale and starring Colin Clive, Mae Clark, John Boles and Boris Karloff - premiered.
Big Crosby's recording of 'When The Blue of The Night Meets The Gold Of The Day' released. Jill Melford born in London.
Harry Landis born in Stepney.
Henry King's Over The Hill - starring James Dunn, Sally Eilers and Mae Marsh - premiered.
The film Our Wife released.
Nadežda Poderegin born in Niš, Yugoslavia.
Alka-Seltzer was first brought on the market by the Dcotor Miles Medical Company. Blonde Crazy - starring James Caney and Joan Blondell - premiered.
Adolf Hitler gave an interview to British and American press at the Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin. 'It will not be necessary for me to seize power through a coup d'état,' Hitler boasted. 'It will be mine within a short time, anyway, since every election brings my party closer to an absolute majority.'
England beat Spain seven-one in a friendly international at Highbury. Sammy Crooks, Tosh Johnson and Jack Smith each scored two with Dixie Dean adding the seventh. A few hours after the Spanish team had gone down to a heavy defeat in London, Spain officially became a republic on their approval of a new constitution.
Eustace Percy's Can Democracy Survive? debated the rise of Communism and Fascism. Alfred Hitchcock's Rich & Strange released.
Violet Joan Pretty born in Hansworth, Birmingham.
James W Horne's Beau Hunks - starring Laurel and Hardy - premiered.
EMI engineer, Alan Blumlein submitted a patent 'Improvements in and relating to Sound-transmission, Sound-recording and Sound-reproducing Systems,' the genesis for stereo sound recording (initially known as binaural). The patent application was approved in 1933 and, in January 1934, Blumlein recorded Mozart's Jupiter Symphony conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham at Abbey Road Studios, the world's first true stereo recording. In 1933, Blumlein's boss, Isaac Shoenberg, assigned him full-time to TV research and Blumlein was largely responsible for the development of the waveform structure used in the 405-line Marconi-EMI system - developed for the BBC Television Service at Alexandra Palace, the world's first scheduled 'high definition' television service - which was later adopted as the CCIR System A.
Chiang Kai-Shek resigned as President of the Republic of China and was succeeded by Lin Sen.
Gunnel Märtha Ingegärd Lindblom born in Gothenburg.
A Transmission of Television by the Baird Process took place during a programme featuring The Gershom Pilkington Qunintet. The Covent Garden Opera Company's adaptation of Rossini's The Barber Of Seville broadcast.
A programme of violin music featuring Tom Jones broadcast from The Grand Hotel, Eastbourne.
The final episode of the disarmament series, War Or Peace? - featuring The Viscount Cecil Of Chelwood and focusing on The League Of Nations - broadcast.
Heigh Ho! The Holly: Or, Christmas As We Imagine It - 'leaves from a Winter Album' arranged by MH Allen and C Denis Freeman - broadcast.
Massenet's Cinderella broadcast.
A Christmas Stocking Woven & Filled broadcast in The Children's Hour strand. Nora Noel Jill Bennett born in Penang, Straits Settlements. Keith Dewhurst born in Oldhamn.
Half The World Away, 'an experiment with time and Christmas' broadcast. Hell Divers, starring Wallace Beery and Clark Gable, premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. The first Metropolitan Opera network radio production took place when Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel & Gretel was broadcast on NBC.
Cicely Courtneidge, Mister Flotsam and Mister Jetsam, Tommy Handley and Elsie and Doris Waters featured on the Boxing Day episode of Vaudeville. Mata Hari, starring Greta Garbo in the title role, and John Ford's Arrowsmith - starring Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes and Myrna Loy - premiered.
A Violin Recital by Isolde Menges broadcast.
The Right Honourable Lord Ponsonby's Some Casual Observations broadcast.
Dean Farrer's Eric: Or, Little By Little broadcast.
Miss Margery Sidgwick's Mad Pigs & Privateers broadcast.
Accounts Rendered, 'a reflection on some of the years events' broadcast. Doctor Jekyll & Mister Hyde - starring Fredric March - premiered.
The Road Traffic Act came into effect.
John Watt's satirical revue World For Sale broadcast.
The postponement of the First Division match between Leeds United and Arsenal caused an hour-long hole in the BBC radio schedules as the intention had been to cover the second half live from Elland Road.
Robert Selden Duvall born in San Diego. The second test at Cape Town was drawn. This was the first test in South Africa to be played on a turf pitch - all of the country's previous forty tests had been played on matting wickets. Patsy Hendren top-scored in both of England's innings.
The first episode of Mrs St Loe Strachey's Yesterday & Today broadcast.
Robert Z Leonard's The Bachelor Father - starring Marion Davies, C Aubrey Smith and Ray Milland - premiered.
Edward F Cline's The Naughty Flirt - starring Myrna Loye, Alice White and Paul Page - premiered.
Ian Mackendrick Hendry born in Ipswich.
James Earl Jones born in Arkabutla, Mississippi.
Patricia Amy Rowlands born in Palmer's Green.
The third test in Durban was drawn. For England, Wally Hammond scored an undefeated century and Bill Voce and Jack White took six wickets.
MPs defeated the Education Bill, which would have raised the minimum school-leaving age from fourteen to fifteen.
Samuel Cook born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. In a little tin shack.
Alfred Cornelius Lynch born in Whitechapel.
John Richard Hopkins born in London.
Winston Churchill resigned from the shadow cabinet after disagreeing with the policy of conciliation with Indian nationalism. Patricia Elvira Hake born in Essex.
Charlie Chaplin's City Lights premiered. PG Wodehouse's Big Money was published.
Leslie Dawson born in Collyhurst, Manchester. John Glynn Edwards born in Penang, Malaya.
A Royal Air Force Blackburn Iris flying boat plunged into Plymouth Sound and exploded, killing nine of its crew.
James Byron Dean born in Marion, Indiana.
Barbara Young born in Brighouse, West Yorkshire.
Does Tradition Hinder Progress featured a discussion between The Right Honourable Lord Eustace Percy and Sir Oswald Mosley. Tod Browning's
Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi, premiered at the Roxy Theatre in New York. Japan conducted its first television broadcast, showing a baseball game.Charles Eglerton Hyatt born in Kingston, Jamaica.
Gerald Harper born in London. Patricia Claire Bloom born in Finchley.
In the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a mentally disturbed man attacked the 1656 Rembrandt painting The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Deijman, slashing it five times with an axe. Margaret Ashcroft born in Chelsea.
The fourth test at Johannesburg ended in a drawn. Maurice Leyland top-scored in both of England's innings. Ian Peebles took six for sixty three in South Africa's first innings. Harry Lee and Bill Farrimond made their test debuts.
Edward George Sherrin born in Low Ham, Soimerset.
The Ray Noble Orchestra's recording of 'Goodnight Sweetheart' (with Al Bowlly on vocals) was cut.
Dennis Brian Close born in Rawdon.
The fifth test at Durban was drawn meaning that south Africa won the series one-nil. The start of the match was delayed by twenty minutes because the correct sized bails we unavailable and the umpire had to make two sets.
Josephine Ann Tewson born in Hampstead.
In the Sixth Round of the FA Cup, Everton hammered Southport nine-one at Goodison Park. Dixie Dean scored four.
Having flounced out of the government in a stroppy huff, Oswald Mosley formed the New Party. Gaining enthusiastic support from the Daily Scum Mail, Mosley and his Blackshirt thugs would soon become the British Union of Fascists. And then, it all kicked-off, big-style. In related news, Albert Speer joined the Nazi Party.
Sir Charles Trevelyan resigned as President of the Board of Education due to his education bill failing to pass. Mikhail Gorbachev born in Privolnoye. Tom Wolfe born in Richmond, Virginia. Bing Crosby recorded 'Just A Gigolo'.
Cab Calloway & His Orchestra recorded 'Minnie The Moocher'.
Mahatma Gandhi and Viceroy of India, Lord Irwin, signed an agreement to end the Indian civil disobedience campaign. In return, citizens along the coast were allowed to make their own salt, all political prisoners were given amnesty and a second Round Table Conference on the matter of Indian independence would be held in London.
Carlo Campogalliani's Medico Per Forza - starring Ettore Petrolini, Tilde Mercandalli and Letizia Quaranta - premiered.
David Alec Webb born in Luton.
Brian Leonard Hayles born in Portsmouth.
The earliest confirmed use of the word 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' appeared in the Syracuse Daily Orange.
Toby Robins born in Toronto.
James Ellis born in Belfast.
The first electric razors, manufactured by the Schick Company, went on sale in New York. John Alexander Fraser born in Glasgow.
Chemist Maximilian Toch gave a speech at the American Museum of Natural History saying that after studying thirty Rembrandt paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he believed that twenty nine of them were forgeries.
The Royal Scot express train derailed outside the Leighton Buzzard station, killing six people. William Shatner born in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal. Leslie Thomas born in Newport, Wales.
Kenneth William Michael Haigh born in Mexborough.
Leonard Nimoy born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Soctland defeated England two-nil at Hampden Park in the Home Ineternational championship. John McPhail and Jimmy McGrory scored for the hosts. Bert Roberts of Arsenal and Chelsea's Jackie Crawford made their England debuts. Harry Bedford scored twice as Newcastle United won the Tyne-Wear derby two-nil in the First Division. League leaders Arsenal won five-two at Middlesbrough (Jack Lambert netting three). Aston Villa defeated Blackpool four-one, Grimsby Town defeated Birmingham by the same score and Sheffield Wednesday thumped Leicester City four-nil. Manchester United appeared certain to be relegated after losing two-one at home to Sheffiled United during a wretched season in which they lost all of their first twelve games. Nottingham Forest's three-nil victory over Swansea Town in the Second Division saw an incredible three first-half penalties missed. Swansea's Alex Ferguson saved the first from Billy Simpson, before Johnny Dent missed Forest's second and then Forest's Arthur Dexter stopped Billy Easton's twice-taken kick for Swansea. Everton lost two-nil at Stoke City but remained eight points clear at the top of the table.
Bad Sister - starring Conrad Nagel, Sidney Fox, Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart - premiered. Phillip Arthur Joseph Bilodeau born in Vancouver. The body of a school bus driver, Carl Miller, was found in a field in Colorado. He had been stranded in his bus with twenty children aged seven to fourteen in an unexpected blizzard, three days earlier and he had set off to find help. Visibility was so bad that he did not know they were only a mile from a rancher's house and he had walked for three miles in opposite direction. His hands were cut from trying to use a barbed-wire fence to guide him. The surviving children, dressed for a warm spring day, were all suffering from hypothermia by the time that they were found after thirty three hours in the bus which was woefully inadequate for the conditions, with broken windows and no heating. Three had died and two more, including Miller's daughter, died that night.
EMI was founded following a merger between the Columbia Graphophone Company and the record label His Master's Voice.
George Morris Baker born in Varna, Bulgaria.
David Bernard Swift born in Liverpol.
Jean Dudley born in Rotherham.
Beryl Frances Johnson born in Croydom.
Jon Roger Rollinson born in Birmingham.
Berlin police Vice President Bernhard Weiß won a defamation lawsuit against Joseph Goebbels, who was ordered to pay fifteen hundred Reichsmarks. Kenneth Charles Cope born in Liverpool.
Godfrey James born in London.
Arsenal won their first Football League title. Runners-up Aston Villa scored one hundred and twenty eight goals in forty two games, a First Division record. Their top scorer was centre-forward Tom Pongo Waring whose fifty goals in all competitions set a record that would not be equalled in the English top-flight until 2023. Leeds United and Manchester United were relegated. The latter lost fourteen matches in a row to create a record for most consecutive losses. It was eventually beaten by Sunderland in 2002. Everton (with Dixie Dean scoring thirty nine times) and FA Cup winners West Bromwich Albion were promoted to the First Division. Nelson finished bottom of the Third Division (North) and failed in their application for re-lection, replaced the following season by Chester. Newport County, in the Third Division (South), also failed re-election and were replaced by Mansfield Town of the Midland League.
Thomas Timothy Garfield Morgan born in Birmingham.
The Public Enemy - starring James Cagney and Jean Harlow - premiered.
West Bromwich Albion beat Birmingham City two-one in the FA Cup Final at Wembley with two goals from Ginger Richardson. The Porsche automobile company was founded in Stuttgart.
Anthony James Donegan born in Glasgow.
Stephen Thomas Dartnell born in West Ham.
The Empire State Building, the tallest building in the world, opened in New York.
Douglas Gaston Sydney Camfield born in India.
Valerie Jeanne Wilkinson born in Southport.
Hermann Göring met with Benito Mussolini in Rome. Babe Stafford's The Cowcatcher's Daughter - starring Majorie Beebe, Andy Clyde and Harry Gribbon - premiered.
The Fritz Lang-directed film M premiered in Berlin.
Harry Baird born in Georgetown, British Guyana.
Paul Doumer elected president of France. Just under a year later, he would be assassinated at a book fair at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild by a Russian émigré, Paul Gorguloff, who felt that France should have actively opposed the rise of Bolshevism in his country. Gorguloff was indicted for murder and executed by guillotine four months later.
England lost five-two against France in a friendly international in Paris. Sammy Crooks and debutant Tom Waring were on-target for the visiotrs. Huddersfield Town's Hugh Turner, Nottingham Forest's Tom Graham and Aston Villa's Joe Tate also made their international debuts.
England defeated Belgium four-one in a friendly international in Brussels. An Eric Houghton penalty gave them the lead, Harry Burgess scored twice and Millwall's Harry Roberts, making his debut, added the fourth. Professor Albert Einstein lectured on his special theory of relativity at Oxford University, in which he presented his intention to identify the mathematical rules that govern the expansion of the universe. His theories were held in such high esteem that the blackboard that he used was taken away and preserved, complete with his chalked equations.
Trevor Edward Peacock born in Edmonton, Middlesex.
Michael Spice born in London.
Michael Edward Lonsdale-Crouch born in Paris.
The Royal British Legion voted to refer to 11 November as 'Remembrance Day' rather than 'Armistice Day'.
In Augsburg, Professor Auguste Piccard and physicist Paul Kipfer took off in an airtight ball attached to a hydrogen balloon in an attempt to be the first men to reach the Earth's stratosphere. They attained an altitude of over fifty thousand feet and then landed in the Austrian Alps after more than eighteen hours in the air.
Peter Everett born in Hull.
The House of Commons approved a law abolishing the death penalty for pregnant women and replacing it with life imprisonment.
Cameronian won The Derby. It was the first Epsom Derby to be televised. Salvador Dalí opened his second solo exhibition at the Pierre Colle Gallery in Paris. It was at this show that the painting destined to become his most famous, The Persistence Of Memory, was publicly displayed for the first time.
The Dogger Bank earthquake became the strongest such event to strike the United Kingdom measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale. Michael John Pratt born in London. Virginia Anne McKenna born in Marylebone.
June Thorburn born in Karachi. Kenneth John Fortescue born in Kew.
Amelia Earhart crashed in Abilene, Kansas during an attempt to make the first transcontinental flight in an autogyro, but she and her mechanic were unhurt.
Robert Leonard's Five & Ten - starring Marion Davies, Leslie Howard, Richard Bennett and Douglass Montgomery - premiered.
Lord Howe and Sir Henry Birkin won the Le Mans endurance race. Kenneth Charles Cope born in Liverpool.
Edward George Caddick born in Finsbury.
Kenneth Gilbert born in Plymouth.
The first of a three test series against New Zealand at Lord's was drawn. Ian Peebles took nine wickets in the match whilst Les Ames and Gubby Allen scored centuries as did the tourists' Stewie Dempster. Fred Bakewell and Johnny Arnold made their test debuts. Zia Mohyeddin born in Lyallpur, India.
A fistfight broke out in the House of Commons. It began when Labour MP John McGovern criticised the arrest of two Scottish preachers for holding meetings on the Glasgow Green without permits. McGovern refused to sit down when he was not satisfied with the Secretary of Scotland's reply and remained standing even after being suspended from the House. A half-dozen attendants arrived and tried to drag McGovern out of the chamber by force, but they were attacked by several Labour MPs. The fight - with kids gettin' sparked and aal sorts - lasted until McGovern was finally dragged out of the chamber by the scruff of his neck and booted into the gutter outside. Frank John Williams born in Edgware.
Sidney Wood was declared the men's champion at Wimbledon by walkover when Frank Shields pulled out of the final due to a leg injury. Shields had wanted to play, but the US Tennis Association ordered him to forfeit so he would be ready for the Davis Cup.
The British cruisers HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Norfolk docked in the port of Kiel, the first time British warships visited Germany since July 1914.
Donal Donnelly born in Bradford.
Michael Powell's directorial debut, Two Crowded Hours - starring John Longden and Jane Welsh - premiered.
Ramsay MacDonald, David Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin made a plea for disarmament in an international radio address, Arms & The People, from Royal Albert Hall.
Alan James Gwynne Cellan Jones born in Swansea.
Robert Graham Stephens born in Bristol. Stanley Meadows born in Stepney.
Lenard George Green born in West Ham.
A bomb was discovered at St Peter's Basilica by a janitor. It was moved to a nearby meadow where it exploded. Robert Banks Stewart born in Edinburgh. Susan Rennie Stephen born in London.
An accident occurred on the set of the film Scarface when some dynamite caps exploded prematurely, injuring four actors and bystander Gaylord Lloyd (Harold Lloyd's brother), who was struck in the right eye.
Edgar Wallace's The Sooper Speaking. The Royal Mail Case trial began at the Old Bailey. The director of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, Lord Kylsant, was accused of publishing a fraudulent balance sheet. Kylsant was, subsequently, found extremely guilty and sentenced to a year in The Slammer. Roy William Skelton born in Nottingham.
Bryan Mosley born in Leeds.
International Bible Students unanimously and officially adopted the name Jehovah's Witnesses at a conference in Columbus, Ohio.
Guthrie Harvey Hallsmith born in St Columb Minor, Cornwall.
Brian Horace Clemens born in Croydon.
Arriving in Warsaw after his recent visit to the Soviet Union, George Bernard Shaw said that other countries must follow the USSR's 'remarkable example,' adding: 'Unlike the Western politicians, who are working for their own benefit, the Russian rulers are working for the people and for their country. I am a confirmed Communist, as I was before Lenin and even more so after seeing Communist Russia. Talk of forced labour in Russia is rubbish. There is more slavery in other countries.' Shaw also described mass-murdering fucker Joseph Stalin as 'a most honest and able man.' England won the second test at The Oval by an innings and twenty six runs. Centuries by Herbert Sutcliffe, Duleepsinhji and Wally Hammond led England to a big total and New Zealand, lacking Stewie Dempster who was injured, wilted against Gubby Allen, who took five for fourteen in thirteen overs. Only Tom Lowry, with sixty two, previous any resistance and Maurice Tate, though taking only one wicket, bowled eighteen overs for just fifteen runs. Following on, New Zealand's batsmen struggled again. The match, which had lost some time to rain, was over in the mid-afternoon of the third day. Freddie Brown and Hedley Verity made their test debuts.
Maureen Connell born in Nairobi.
In Los Angeles, Marlene Dietrich was named as 'the other woman' in the legal hearing of lawsuits filed by Riza Royce, wife of director Josef von Sternberg.
Alethea Blow Charlton born in Middlesbrough.
James Parrott's Pardon Us - the first full-length comedy starring Laurel and Hardy - premiered.
The third test at Old Trafford was drawn. Rain ruined the match and a start could not be made until midway through the last afternoon. Herbert Sutcliffe, with an unbeaten one hundred and nine, scored his second century of the series. Eddie Paynter made his test debut.
The Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald extremely resigned and was replaced by a National government drawn from members of all parties (but, mostly Conservatives) also under MacDonald's nominal leadership.
John Peter Gilmore born in Leipzig, Germany.
Winning their final match of the season by nine wickets against Sussex at Hove, Yorkshire claimed their first cricket county championship title since 1925 with Hedley Verity taking thirteen wickets in the match. Gloucestershire finished second and Kent third. Middlesex's Patsy Hendren was the championship's leading run-maker (two thousand one hundred and twenty two) whilst, for the fourth year running, Kent's Tich Freeman was the leading wicket-taker (two hundred and forty one). Yorkshire's Herbert Sutcliffe topped the first class batting averages (three thousand and six runs at 96.96). Nottinghamshire's Harold Larwood took one hundred and thirty five first-class wickets at 12.03.
The Labour Party voted to oust Ramsay MacDonald as its leader. Former foreign secretary Arthur Henderson was named as his successor.
Mahatma Gandhi set sail on the SS Rajputana from Bombay to Marseilles en route to the Round Table Conference in London. 'I see nothing on the horizon to warrant hope, but I am an optimist and I am hoping against hope. For me the service of India is identical with the service of humanity,' Gandhi said.
John Thomson, the Glasgow Celtic goalkeeper died in hospital after fracturing his skull in a collision with Rangers forward Sam English during the Old Firm derby at Ibrox.
Jack Morris Rosenthal born in Manchester.
Margaret Maud Tyzack born in West Ham.
Mahatma Gandhi arrived in London to attend the Round Table Conference on Indian independence. He took a small room at Kingsley Hall in the city's East End. Ian Holm Cuthbert born in Goodmayes, Essex.
RCA Victor introduced the LP record in a demonstration at the Savoy-Plaza Hotel in New York. However, they were too expensive at the time to be commercially successful. Anna Maria Louisa Italiano born in New York. Ian Fulton Fairbairn born in Liverpool.
Geli Raubal, the half-niece (and, allegedly, lover) of Adolf Hitler was found extremely dead in Hitler's München apartment. The death was recorded as suicide.
Monkey Business - starring The Marx Brothers - premiered.
Britain decided to abandon the gold standard. John Ford's The Brat - starring Sally O'Neil - premiered.
Larry Martin Hagman born in Forth Worth.
Charlie Chaplin visited Mahatma Gandhi in Canning Town. Franklin Birkinshaw born in Birmingham.
Anthony Newley born in Hackney.
The Ministry of Labour reported 2.8 million out of work, a new record. Erik Charell's Der Kongreß Tanzt - starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Otto Wallburg and Conrad Veidt - premiered.
London police clashed again with the unemployed outside the Bow Street police station and Magistrates' Court where many of those arrested in the previous evening's disturbances were being arraigned.
Rioting broke out again in Glasgow when police stopped a crowd from marching on Glasgow Green. MP John McGovern was among those arrested for hitting a policeman. Hard. William Beaudine's Penrod & Sam - starring Leon Janney and Frank Coghlan Jr - premiered.
A mob of unemployed demonstrators in Manchester were repulsed trying to storm Town Hall while the council was in session. The protesters then sat in the street and refused to budge until they were dispersed by police batons and fire hoses.
Anthony George Booth born in Liverpool.
The firtst episode of Edgar Wallace's The World Of Crime broadcast. Leslie Hutchinson, Jeanne De Casalis and Doris and Elsie Waters featured on Vaudeville. Victor Pemberton born in islington.
The Christ The Redeemer statue overlooking the city of Rio de Janeiro was dedicated.
The Noël Coward play Cavalcade premiered at Drury Lane.
Criminals I Have Met broadcast in The World Of Crime strand. Gangster Al Capone was sentenced to eleven years in The Big House for tax evasion in Chicago. Thomas Edison died in New Jersey. His multiple achievements included the first playback of a sound recording, on a phonograph in 1877, the patenting of the one of the first commercially successful electric lightbulbs a year later and the introduction of the kinetoscope in 1891 which showed some of the first short motion-pictures in penny arcades. On the day of Thomas Edison's funeral, four days later, the United States plunged itself into darkness for one minute at 10pm Eastern time to mourn his passing. England beat Ireland six-two in the Home International championship at Windsor Park. Tom Waring and Eric Houghton both scored twice with additional goals from Ernie Hine and Portsmouth's Jack Smith making his international debut. Jimmy Duinne and Derry City's Jimmy Kelly netted for the hosts. In the First Division, Newcastle United won three-nil at Blackburn Rovers, Aston Villa beat Portsmouth by the same score and league leaders West Bromwich Albion lost two-one at home to Liverpool. This allowed Everton to go level with The Throstles with a game in hand after they thrashed Sheffield Wednesday nine-three (Dixie Dean, i9nevitably, scoring five). Bury topped the Second Division following a four-one victory over Preston North End. Leeds United, in the midst of a run of nine straight victories, beat Wolverhampton Wanderers two-one.
David John Moore Cornwell born in Poole, Dorset.
Diana Mary Fluck born in Swindon.
A Sooper Story broadcast in The World of Crime strand. Lloyd Corrigan's The Beloved Bachelor - starring Dorothy Jordan - premiered.
Another General Erection was held. The informal coalition known as The National Government won a commanding five hundred and fifty four seats, with the Conservative Party winning four hundred and seventy of them. The Labour Party was reduced to forty six seats. Ramsay MacDonald, running as a candidate for the new National Labour party, was re-elected to lead the coalition. Oswald Mosley's New Party had a disastrous showing, garnering only a tiny vote and failing to win a single seat.
Scotland Yard & Its Criminals broadcast in The World of Crime strand.
David Lloyd George officially stepped down as Leader of the Liberal Party and was succeeded by Sir Herbert Samuel. Several MPs joined Lloyd George's break from the Liberals to sit in Parliament as a small voting-bloc known as the Independent Liberals.
Despite the relative failure of the second Round Table Conference on Indian independence, Mahatma Gandhi was invited to have tea with King George V at Buckingham Palace. Prior to his arrival reporter asked Gandhi, 'do you think you are properly dressed to meet the King?" Gandhi replied: 'Do not worry about my clothes. The King has enough clothes on for both of us.' Meanwhile, Winston Churchill displayed one of the least attractive sides to his personality when noting: 'It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mister Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal palace to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor.' Twat.
A Steward Story, Dealing With Transatlantic Card-Sharpers broadcast in The World of Crime strand. James Arnold Rio Fanning born in Newry, County Down. Ginger Richardson scored four goals in five minutes for West Bromwich Albion against West Ham United at Upton Park in the First Division, a record that is still in the Guinness Book Of Records. West Brom won five-one. Everton drew nil-nil at Huddersfield to remain top of the league. Fifty three goals were scored in eleven top flight matches including Newcastle's three-two victory over Arsenal and Aston Villa's five-one win against Blackpool.
King Vidor's The Champ - starring Wallace Beery - premiered.
Donald Francis Henderson born in Leytonstone.
EMI's state-of-the-art Abbey Road Studios in St John's Wood was opened by Sir Edward Elgar. A Spanish commission announced its findings that former king Alfonso XIII was guilty of lèse-majesté under the Constitution of 1876 which the commission argued placed the people as co-sovereign with the king. The commission recommended that Alfonso be 'condemned to disgrace,' his property confiscated and that he be executed if he ever set foot in the country again. Brian Rawlinson born in Stockport.
Adrienne Riccoboni born in Glasgow.
How To Protect Your Home broadcast in The World Of Crime strand. Jennifer Jayne Jones born in Yorkshire.
Kenneth Watson born in London.
An inquest was adjourned due to the mysterious lack of identification from a double shooting in a Southampton hotel which left one man dead and a woman seriously ill, from gunshot wounds. The mystery was eventually solved and the inquest concluded, five months later. It transpired that the couple, Roland Draper, and his lover, Gladys Tressider, had conspired to die together in a suicide pact and had attempted to destroy everything that could identify them. Draper had shot Gladys and then turned the gun on himself. The woman survived because the bullet missed her heart, but she was left paralysed from the waist down.
England defeated Wales three-one in the Home International championship at Anfield. Jack Smith, Sammy Crooks and Ernie Hine netted for England, Walter Robbins of Cardiff City replied for the visitors. Everton's Charlie Gee and Arsenal's Cliff Bastin made their England debuts.
The Abnormal Importations Act received royal assent after a rushed passage through Parliament. Rolls-Royce acquired Bentley Motors.
Frankenstein - directed by James Whale and starring Colin Clive, Mae Clark, John Boles and Boris Karloff - premiered.
Big Crosby's recording of 'When The Blue of The Night Meets The Gold Of The Day' released. Jill Melford born in London.
Harry Landis born in Stepney.
Henry King's Over The Hill - starring James Dunn, Sally Eilers and Mae Marsh - premiered.
The film Our Wife released.
Nadežda Poderegin born in Niš, Yugoslavia.
Alka-Seltzer was first brought on the market by the Dcotor Miles Medical Company. Blonde Crazy - starring James Caney and Joan Blondell - premiered.
Adolf Hitler gave an interview to British and American press at the Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin. 'It will not be necessary for me to seize power through a coup d'état,' Hitler boasted. 'It will be mine within a short time, anyway, since every election brings my party closer to an absolute majority.'
England beat Spain seven-one in a friendly international at Highbury. Sammy Crooks, Tosh Johnson and Jack Smith each scored two with Dixie Dean adding the seventh. A few hours after the Spanish team had gone down to a heavy defeat in London, Spain officially became a republic on their approval of a new constitution.
Eustace Percy's Can Democracy Survive? debated the rise of Communism and Fascism. Alfred Hitchcock's Rich & Strange released.
Violet Joan Pretty born in Hansworth, Birmingham.
James W Horne's Beau Hunks - starring Laurel and Hardy - premiered.
EMI engineer, Alan Blumlein submitted a patent 'Improvements in and relating to Sound-transmission, Sound-recording and Sound-reproducing Systems,' the genesis for stereo sound recording (initially known as binaural). The patent application was approved in 1933 and, in January 1934, Blumlein recorded Mozart's Jupiter Symphony conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham at Abbey Road Studios, the world's first true stereo recording. In 1933, Blumlein's boss, Isaac Shoenberg, assigned him full-time to TV research and Blumlein was largely responsible for the development of the waveform structure used in the 405-line Marconi-EMI system - developed for the BBC Television Service at Alexandra Palace, the world's first scheduled 'high definition' television service - which was later adopted as the CCIR System A.
Chiang Kai-Shek resigned as President of the Republic of China and was succeeded by Lin Sen.
Gunnel Märtha Ingegärd Lindblom born in Gothenburg.
A Transmission of Television by the Baird Process took place during a programme featuring The Gershom Pilkington Qunintet. The Covent Garden Opera Company's adaptation of Rossini's The Barber Of Seville broadcast.
The final episode of the disarmament series, War Or Peace? - featuring The Viscount Cecil Of Chelwood and focusing on The League Of Nations - broadcast.
Heigh Ho! The Holly: Or, Christmas As We Imagine It - 'leaves from a Winter Album' arranged by MH Allen and C Denis Freeman - broadcast.
Massenet's Cinderella broadcast.
A Christmas Stocking Woven & Filled broadcast in The Children's Hour strand. Nora Noel Jill Bennett born in Penang, Straits Settlements. Keith Dewhurst born in Oldhamn.
Half The World Away, 'an experiment with time and Christmas' broadcast. Hell Divers, starring Wallace Beery and Clark Gable, premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. The first Metropolitan Opera network radio production took place when Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel & Gretel was broadcast on NBC.
Cicely Courtneidge, Mister Flotsam and Mister Jetsam, Tommy Handley and Elsie and Doris Waters featured on the Boxing Day episode of Vaudeville. Mata Hari, starring Greta Garbo in the title role, and John Ford's Arrowsmith - starring Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes and Myrna Loy - premiered.
A Violin Recital by Isolde Menges broadcast.
The Right Honourable Lord Ponsonby's Some Casual Observations broadcast.
Dean Farrer's Eric: Or, Little By Little broadcast.
Miss Margery Sidgwick's Mad Pigs & Privateers broadcast.
Accounts Rendered, 'a reflection on some of the years events' broadcast. Doctor Jekyll & Mister Hyde - starring Fredric March - premiered.
