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John Hilton's To The Unemployed broadcast.
The Anglo-Irish Trade War softened when Britain agreed to buy more cattle from the Irish Free State in exchange for selling more coal.
Ethiopia asked the League of Nations to act in accordance with Article XI of the League Covenant, which stated that 'Any war or threat of war, whether immediately affecting any of the Members of the League or not, is hereby declared a matter of concern to the whole League and the League shall take any action that may be deemed wise and effectual to safeguard the peace of nations.' The League, however, postponed action on Ethiopia's request. Richard Martin Thomas born in London.
The first episode of the series India broadcast featuring the views of Clement Attlee MP. Floyd Patterson born in Waco, North Carolina.
Charles Rogers's Tit For Tat - starring Laurel and Hardy - premiered. David John Ryall born in Shoreham-By-Sea, Sussex.
The first episode of The Empire At Work broadcast.
Bernard Mainwaring's The Public Life Of Henry The Ninth - the first movie made by Hammer Films, starring Leonard Henry, Betty Frankiss and George Mozart - premiered.
Mao Zedong became a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China. Elvis Aaron Presley born in Tupelo, Mississippi.
England won the first of a four test series against the West Indies at Bridgetown by four wickets. Rain was the principal factor in a low-scoring match on a treacherous surface. Bob Wyatt put the West Indies in and Ken Farnes took four wickets for fifteen as half the hosts' batsmen were out for thirty one. George Headley rallied with forty four before being run out, but debutants George Paine and Eric Hollies finished the innings off. England, in turn, collapsed to eighty one for five by the end of the first day. Overnight rain then saturated the wicket to such an extent that play could not resume until after tea, after which Leslie Hylton took two wickets in the first over, Wyatt declared with England twenty one runs behind. West Indies captain Jackie Grant shuffled his batting order in the hope the pitch would ease, but three wickets fell for four runs. A further overnight deluge made play impossible until 3.30 on the third day. West Indies then lost three more wickets in adding eighteen runs and Grant declared, setting England just seventy three to win. Wally Hammond with an unbeaten twenty nine and Patsy Hendren (twenty) saw England to victory. Manny Martindale took five second innings wickets. Jim Smith, Jack Iddon and Errol Holmes made their test debuts.
Melvyn Hyams born in Wandsworth.
George Cukor's adaptation of David Copperfield - starring WC Fields and Freddie Bartholomew - premiered.
Bryan Pringle born in Tamowrth.
Jane Downs born in Bromley.
Huddie Ledbetter (Lead Belly) made his first professional recordings with producer Art Satherley in New York. Among the songs cut were 'CC Rider', ''Death Letter Blues', 'My Baby Quit Me' and 'You Don't Know My Mind'. Joe Melia born in Islington.
Arthur Bamber Gascoigne born in London.
West Indies won the second test at Port of Spain by two hundred and seventeen runs. Bob Wyatt again won the toss and put the West Indies in, but innings of ninety two from Derek Sealy and of ninety from Learie Constantine led to a respectable total (three hundred and two). England lost their first five wickets for twenty three runs to the West Indies pace bowlers. Patsy Hendren and Jack Iddon put on seventy one, then Iddon and Errol Holmes made seventy four together and Holmes, who made eighty five, put on sixty two with Bill Farrimond. West Indies' second innings was a determined effort with ninety three from George Headley and contributions from most of the other batsmen. England were set three hundred and twenty five to win and Wyatt – in what Wisden termed an 'amazing and inexplicable course' – all but reversed the batting order. Five wickets fell before tea on the last day and the innings was over with one ball of the day remaining with Maurice Leyland and Holmes the last pair. Oxford Univeristy's David Townsend made his test debut.
The BBC announced that it would begin the world's first public television service by the end of the year. In the event it took a little longer than that. James Flood's Wings In The Dark - starring Myrna Loy and Cary Grant - premiered.
Winston Churchill, 'the government's most persistent and relentless critic of the government's policy on India,' outlined his views on the issue to listeners.
Edmund Jeremy James Walker born in Chesterfield.
Richard Crossman's Youth Looks Ahead focused on 'impressions of Herr Hitler's Germany.' Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much - starring Leslie Banks, Edna Best and Peter Lorre - premiered.
In the House of Commons, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education - H Ramsbothom - was asked whether he was now prepared to accept the suggestion that an official opinion should be pronounced on the medical aspects of the caning of girls for the guidance of all local education authorities. Ramsbotham replied that corporal punishment had 'always been regarded as within the discretion of the school authorities' and it was, therefore, nothing to do with him. Alexander James Harvey born in Glasgow.
Parker Brothers began selling the board game Monopoly®™. England defeated Ireland two-one in the Home International championship at Goodison Park. Cliff Bastin scored twice for the hosts whilst Alex Stevenson replied for the visitors. His Everton team-mate, Jackie Coulter also missed a penalty for the Irish. Jackie Bestall of Grimsby Town made his england debut. In the First Division, Birmingham (without Harry hibbs who was playing in goal for England) eased their relegation worries with a four-two victory over Middlesbrough whilst Sunderland and Aston Villa shared six goals at Roker Park. The Government of India Bill received its second reading in the House of Commons. Though it took another two years to come into effect, the Act separated Burma from India and provided for more autonomy to the Indian peoples, including erections.
Vincent Eugene Craddock born in Norfolk, Virginia. Delena Violet Kidd born in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
After eleven hours of deliberation, the jury in the Lindbergh kidnapping case found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of murder and sentenced him to death.
The Woman In Red starring Barbara Stanwyck was released. Salvatore Phillip Bono born in Detroit. The first episode of Five hours Back broadcast.
The third test at Georgetown was drawn. Bob Wyatt won the toss again and batted after a start delayed by rain. Subdued batting, in which George Paine, sent in as nightwatchman top-scored with forty nine, meant the total only reached one hundred and ninety eight by tea on the second day. An England collapse followed, but West Indies also batted slowly, with the exception of George Headley. Eric Hollies took seven wickets for fifty. England, with seventy one from the captain, failed to force the pace in the second innings and the declaration left West Indies just two hours to bat.
Freedom & Authority In The Modern World featured 'H Powys Greenwood on Nazi Germany.'
The probable radio debut of Vera Lynn as vocalist with The Joe Loss Orchestra broadcast.
The Little Colonel - starring Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore and Bill Bojangles Robinson - premiered.
Jack Hobbs announced his retirement from cricket.
Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrated the use of radar with the aid of the BBC's Daventry transmitter.
Albert Parker's The Riverside Murder - starring Basil Sydney, Judy Gunn, Zoe Davis, Alastair Sim and Reginald Tate - premiered.
Stephen John Thorne born in London.
An LNER train attained a record maximum speed of one hundred and eight miles per hour during a run from London to Newcastle.
Nikita Khrushchev was elected chief of the Moscow Communist Party. The largest crowd of the season, seven three thousand, two hundred and ninety five, watched the First Division's top two Arsenal and Sunderland share a goalless draw at Highbury. In the Second Division, Fulham beat Notts County seven-nil (Eddie Perry scored three).
James W Horne's Thicker Than Water - starring Laurel and Hardy - premiered. Tristan John De Vere Cole born in Redruth. Donald Tosh born in Scotland. Arsenal remained at the top of the First Division, beating Everton two-nil at Goodison Park. Having been injured in the first half, Arsenal's keeper Frank Moss, with is shoulder heavily strapped, played outside left. He scored Arsenal's opener with Ted Drake adding the second. Chelsea beat Leeds United seven-one (Joe Bamwick scoring four). Wolves defeated Liverpool five-three whilst second placed Sunderland won four-one at home to Stoke City.
Haile Selassie said that Ethiopia would never apologise to Italy for wrongs it had not committed. 'We will not be coerced or intimidated by the military preparations recently announced into according the satisfaction which Italy demands,' he said. West Indies won the fourth test at Kingston by an innings and one hundred and sixty one runs. West Indies set a record for their highest test score against England - five hundred and thirty five for seven - and George Headley's undefeated two hundred and seventy was the highest individual score for the hosts. When England batted, Manny Martindale inflicted a compound fracture of the jaw on Bob Wyatt and four other wickets fell for twenty six runs. Les Ames, with one hundred and twenty six, turned the innings around with Jack Iddon, who made fifty four, but England were required to follow on. Against Martindale and Learie Constantine, there was limited resistance and the match ended soon after lunch on the fourth day.
Persia officially changed its name to Iran. Brian Howard Clough born in Middeslbrough.
Barry Charles Cryer born in Leeds.
Rodney Bennett born in Chagford, Devon.
Susan Engel born in Vienna.
Julian Wyatt Glover born in Hampstead.
The Leni Riefenstahl-directed propaganda film Triumph Of The Will premiered at the Berlin Ufa-Palast. Michael Parkinson born in Cudworth, West Yorkshire.
Reynoldstown won the Grand National.
Herb Alpert born in Los Angeles.
The first episode of Freedom broadcast. Contributors to future episodes included Herbert Morrison, Wyndham Lewis, Erwin Schrödinger, GK Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw and Herbert Hanson, the Bishop of Durham.
Trevor Griffiths born in Ancoats, Manchester.
Cambridge won the Boat Race. Scotland beat England two=nil in the Home International championship at Hampden Park. Douglas Ducan of Derby County scored both goals. Wall Alsford of Spurs and Sunderland's Bob Gurney made their England debuts. In the First Division, Aresenal (who drew two-two with Chelsea) remained top of the table, Second placed Sunderland - without their regular strike-rorce of Gurney and Raich Carter, both on England duty - drew at West Bromwich Albion. When West Brom were awarded the penalty from which they equalised, Sunderland's Patsy Gallacher was sent off for protesting a bit too vociferously. The defence opened its case in Guernsey in the Channel Islands' first ever murder trial of a woman. Housekeeper, Gertrude De La Mare was accused of cutting the throat of her seventy six-year-old employer, Alfred Brouard, with a bread knife in order to inherit his estate. An apparent suicide note was left, stating that no blame should be attached to his housekeeper who had, in fact, written it herself. Though she was found guilty and sentenced to death, the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, a month later. She died in Holloway Prison, at the age of eighty eight.
Kodak introduced Kodachrome, the first commercially available colour film.
Despicable old fucker Oswald Mosley made a speech in front of five thousand numbskulls in Leicester in which he adopted a more openly anti-Semitic stance than previously revealed, declaring: 'For the first time I openly and publicly challenge the Jewish interest in this country commanding commerce, commanding the press, commanding the cinema, dominating the City of London, killing industry with the sweatshops. These great interests are not intimidating, and will not intimidate, the Fascist movement of the modern age.' What a complete scumbag. Terrance William Dicks, who was most definitely not a scumbag or anything even remotely like it, born in East Ham.
Alan Frederick Plater born in Jarrow.
G Men starring James Cagney premiered.
Dudley Stuart John Moore born in Hammersmith.
Glasgow Rangers defeated Hamilton Academical two-one in the Scottish Cup Final. Gary Barrymore Raymond born in Brixton.
James Whale's The Bride Of Frankenstein - starring Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson and Elsa Lanchester - premiered in Los Angeles.
Gallipoli, 'in memory of those who died before Byzantium, to save the fishy straits of the sea, men swift in the work of War' broadcast.
Mark Of The Vampire starring Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan and Bela Lugosi was released.
Sheffield Wednesday beat West Bromwich Albion four-two in the FA Cup Final at Wembley aided by two late goals from Ellis Rimmer. Arsenal's five-three win against Leicester City gave The Gunners their third consecutive First Division title (and, fourth in five years) ahead of Sunderland. Ted Drake was the division's leading scorer with forty two goals.
Retroreflective pavement markers known as Cat's Eyes were first used on British roads.
Ian Bayley Curteis born in London.
A car carrying Jackie Coogan and four other people plunged off a road and into a creek East of San Diego. Coogan survived with minor injuries but everyone else was killed, including Jackie's father, the filmmaker Robert J Horner and the actor Junior Durkin.
Silver Jubilee celebrations for King George V began across the British Empire. The King and Queen attended services at St Paul's Cathedral.
The British government ordered aircraft manufacturers to increase their production to the fullest capacity and not to fill any foreign orders for aircraft without the Air Ministry's approval. The John Ford-directed The Informer premiered.
Terrance William Dicks born in East Ham.
Douglas Osborne McClure born in Glendale.
TE Lawrence was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in Dorset. He died six days later. The horror film Werewolf Of London was released.
The Berne Trial ended in Switzerland with the court determining The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion to be a hoax. Two Nazis were found extremely guilty of libel for distributing it. Benito Mussolini made a senate speech warning other nations not to intervene in the Abyssinia Crisis, saying that only Italy 'can be the judge in this most delicate matter.'
Dennis Christopher George Potter born in Berry Hill, Gloucestershire.
The Soviet airliner Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky collided with a stunt plane and exploded over Moscow, killing forty nine. It was the worst air disaster involving a passenger plane in history up to that time. England defeated The Netherlands one-nil in a firnedly international at the Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam. Debutant Fred Worrall of Portsmouth scored the winner. Played in appalling conditions, England struggled to overcome the Dutch part-timers lead by Puck Van Heels of Feyenoord. Bolton's George Eastham and the West Bromiwhc Albion duo of Ginger Richardson and Walter Boyes made their debuts.
Anthony Michael Wisher born in London. Thomas Lawrence died at the Bovington Camp military base in Dorset, from head injuries sustained six days earlier when he came off his Brough Superior SS100 motorcycle as he swerved to avoid two cyclists. He attained national fame as Lawrence of Arabia when he revealed some of the exploits of his British Intelligence missions as part of the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during The Great War. Colonel Lawrence changed his name to Shaw in 1923 in an effort to escape his fame and enlisted in the Royal Air Force.
Jesse Owens broke five world records and matched a sixth in a single afternoon of track and field events during the Big Ten championships at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Basil David Moss born in London. George Roubicek born in Austria.
Sheila Frances Steafel born in Johannesburg.
Maureen Rippingale born in Chelmsford. Peter Sasdy born in Budapest. Malcolm Frederick Evans born in Liverpool.
Anne Reid born in Jesmond, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
The German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter plane had its first test flight. George Fortmby recorded 'Fanlight Fanny' for Decca Records.
The sensational trial at the Old Bailey of Alma Rattenbury and her lover George Stoner for the murder of Alma's third husband Francis, bludgeoned to death with a mallet in March, concluded with Alam's aquittal and Stoner being found guilty and sentenced to death. The trial was heavily covered in the press, with one newspaper sending the entertainment editor rather than a crime writer to cover it. On 4 June Alma committed suicide, stabbing herself in the chest six times. Stoner's sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. He served seven years before being released to serve in the British Army during the Second World War. The case was subsequently the basis of the radio, stage and television play Cause Célèbre by Sir Terence Rattigan.
Britain introduced mandatory driving tests. John Peter McGrath born in Birkenhead.
David Roger Brierley born in Stockport.
Alfred Hitchcock's The Thirty Nine Steps - starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll - premiered. Mark McManus born in Hamilton.
Stanley Baldwin replaced the retiring Ramsay MacDonald as Prime Minister. Alfred Hitchcock's The Thirty Nine Steps released.
In a blunt speech in Cagliari, Benito Mussolini told the British to stay out the Abyssinia Crisis, saying 'they never took into consideration world opinion' while creating the British Empire. 'we have got old, and we have got new accounts to settle with Ethiopia, and we will settle them,' Mussolini declared. 'We will pay no attention to what is said in foreign countries. We exclusively are the judges of our own interests and the guarantors of our future.'
Edward, Prince of Wales made a statement at a British Legion conference endorsing the idea that a delegation of German war veterans would be welcomed in Britain and that a delegation of British veterans should visit Germany in return. George Formby's 'Fanlight Fanny'/'Share & Share Alike' released.
Fourteen people were killed and twenty nine injured when two trains collided at Welwyn Garden City railway station. The TS Eliot play Murder In The Cathedral premiered in the Chapter House of Canterbury Cathedral. Belinda Lee born in Budleigh Salterton, Devon.
Arthur Fox and Charles Nicholl won the twenty four hour Le Mans endurance race. James Christopher Bolam born in Sunderland.
The first of a five test series between England and South Africa at Trent Bridge was drawn. Bob Wyatt scored a century and Stan Nichols took seven wickets but, with the tourists still one hundred and fifty runs away from making England bat again, the final day was washed out. Mandy Mitchel-Inness made his test debut.
Prince Edward's recent remarks were brought up in the House of Commons when Aneurin Bevan asked Foreign Minister Samuel Hoare about the idea to invite German war veterans to England. The Minister replied that it was a matter 'entirely for the ex-servicemen's organisations' and that he could neither 'approve nor disapprove' of the Prince's comments. Derren Michael Horwitz born in London. Derren Michael Horwitz born in London.
Peter Dudley born in Manchester.
In Geneva, the International Labour Conference adopted a convention designed to establish a forty-hour work week.
Fifty seven thousand boxing fans packed Yankee Stadium to watch Joe Louis defeat Primo Carnera by technical knockout in the sixth round.
Frederick John Inman born in Preston.
Derek Partridge born in London.
David Prowse born in Bristol.
South Africa won the second test at Lord's by one hundred and fifty seven runs. Match highlights included Bruce Mitchell's one hundred and sixty four for the tourists and Hedley Verity taking six wickets.
The first Belisha beacon became operational, in Wigan. Narciso Ibáñez Serrador born in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Fred Perry won his second consecutive Men's Singles title at Wimbledon, beating Gottfried von Cramm. George Formby's 'The Fiddler Kept On Fiddling'/'I Do Do Things, I Do' released.
Helen Wills Moody defeated fellow American Helen Jacobs in the Ladies' Singles Final at Wimbledon.
Excavators of the Moscow subway announced the discovery of underground dungeons, including a torture chamber, dating from the reign of Ivan the Terrible. Michael Leonard Williams born in Liverpool.
Seven were killed in Belfast during clashes between members of the Orange Order and Irish nationalists. Roy Senior Barraclough born in Preston.
Near Linz, Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg was injured in a car accident that killed his wife. Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg was made acting chancellor while Schuschnigg recovered.
William Gladstone Stewart born in Habrough, Lincolnshire.
King George conducted a fleet review, the largest since before the Great War, at Spithead. The Raven - starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi - premiered. The third test at Headingley was drawn. Wally Hammond top-scored in both of England's innings. Denis Smith, Wilf Barber, Joe Hardstaff Jr and Jim Sims all made their test debut.
Donald McNichol Sutherland born in Saint John, New Brunswick.
Peter Birrel Cohen born in Vienna.
A KLM passenger plane en route from Milan to Amsterdam crashed into a mountain in Switzerland, killing all thirteen aboard. Edward George Rogers born in Kennington.
Julian Pettifer born in Malmesbury, Wiltshir.
Del Henney born in Liverpool.
Foreign Secretary Samuel Hoare announced that the government would not allow British manufacturers to export war materiel to either Ethiopia or Italy until all efforts to resolve the Abyssinia Crisis were exhausted. Since Italy had no need to buy foreign weapons, the embargo only affected Ethiopia.
A staff member of the office of German sports commissioner Hans von Tschammer und Osten said that no Jews would represent Germany at next year's Berlin Olympics. The official claimed that Jews had competed in the qualifying events but none made the cut. In November Germany would give in somewhat to mounting international pressure and allow the half-Jewish fencer Helene Mayer onto the team.
Busby Berkeley's Funny Face - starring Joe E Brown, Ann Dvorak and Patricia Ellis - premiered.
Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd born in Manchester. Lisa Gastoni born in Alassio, Italy.
TE Lawrence's Seven Pillars Of Wisdom - written in 1922 - was first published in an edition for general circulation, two months after the author's death.
The first ten Penguin Books went on sale in Britain. They included Ernest Hemmingway's A Farewell To Arms, Dorothy L Sayers' The Unpleasantness At The Bellona Club and Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair At Styles. Paperbacks up to this time were associated with a lack of quality in both their bindings and contents, but Penguin became the first to offer good quality literature in the format. The fourth test at Old Trafford ended in a draw. The match highlight was an attacking hundred by Walter Robins. John Sleeman Croft born in Maidenhead.
Defrocked Anglican priest Harold Davidson was arrested and charged with attempting suicide, having been on exhibition for the past ten days with a sign that he was 'fasting unto death' in protest against a ruling prohibiting him from performing church duties
Vera Day born in London.
Wanda Ventham born in Brighton.
Rodney Stephen Hull born on the Isle Of Sheppey.
Charlie Parker played his six hundred and thirty fifth and final first class cricket match for Gloucestershire against Middlesex at Cheltenham. In a career which began in 1903, Charlie took three thousand two hundred and seventy eight wickets. From 1920 he became one of the best left arm spin bowlers in England. A little quicker than most of his type, on rain affected or crumbling pitches he was almost unplayable due to his vicious spin. From 1929 to 1931 he formed, with Tom Goddard, the most lethal bowling combination in county cricket, aided by the brilliant close fielding of Wally Hammond. He nearly completed what would have been a unique feat in taking five wickets in five balls in first-class cricket. He hit the stumps five times in consecutive balls in his benefit match for Gloucestershire against Yorkshire at the County Cricket Ground, Bristol in 1922, but the second was called a no-ball. He was the first player to take three hat-tricks in a single first-class season in 1924. In 1931, though already forty-eight Charlie equalled Jack Hearne's record of taking one hundred wickets by 12 June. He played only one test, against Australia in a rain-ruined draw at Old Trafford in 1921.
James Smith born in Rothwell, Northamptonshire.
Janet Ethne Anne Henfrey born in Aldershot.
AEG demonstrated the Magnetophon reel-to-reel tape recorder at the Berlin Radio Fair.
Ivar Campbell's Radio Pirates (AKA: Big Ben Calling) - starring Leslie French, Mary Lawson, Warren Jenkins, Enid Stamp-Taylor, Fanny Wright and Hughie Green - premiered.
The fifth test at The Oval was drawn meaning South Africa won a test series in England for the first time. Maurice Leyland and Les Ames both his centuries in England's innings whilst Hopper Read, playing in his first test, took six wickets. Johnnie Clay also made his test debut.
Ivor Charlie Salter born in Taunton.
Jaems W Horne's Bonnie Scotland - starring Laurel and Hardy - premiered.
Haile Selassie ordered civilians to leave Addis Ababa and disperse across the country in order to reduce casualties from the anticipated aerial bombardment by Italian planes.
Archibald Campbell's The Last Voyage Of The HMS Otranto broadcast on The National Programme.
Copies of the latest issue of the American magazine Time appeared on British newsstands with one page torn out, referring to alleged intrigues by Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark to place her husband Prince George, Duke of Kent on the throne of Greece.
The Carter Family's version of 'Can The Circle Be Unbroken (By & By)' released.
Top Hat starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers premiered in New York.
Anna Karenina - starring Greta Garbo and Fredric March - premiered at the Capitol Theatre in New York. Anna Barry born in Gosport. Peter Cartwright born in Krugersdorp, South Africa.
An innings and one hundred and sixteen runs victory over Hampshire at Portsmouth secured Yorkshire's fourth cricket county championship in five years. Hedley Verity passed two hundred first clas wickets in a season for the first time in his career, taking two hundred and eleven at an average of 14.36. He took five wickets in an innings twenty two times and had ten or more wickets in seven matches. Kent's Tich Freeman, for the eight consecutive season, was the championship's leading wicket-taker (two hundred and one). His team-mate Frank Woolley was the championship's leadingrun-scorer (two thousand one hundred and eighty seven). Wally Hammond topped the bating averages in all first-clas cricket (two thousand six hundred and sixteen runs at 49.35).
Sir Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile three hundred miles per hour, establishing a new record land speed at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
John Ernest Briggs born in Battersea.
John Roxburgh Clark born in London.
Nadim Joakim Sawalha born in Madaba, Jordan. Ronald MacLeod born in London.
Howard Hughes set a new air-speed record, reaching three hundred and fifty two miles per hour in his Hughes H-1 Racer over a fixed course near Santa Ana, California.
Shirley Anne Broadbent born in Aston-Under-Lyne.
The Reichstag convened for a special session and passed The Nuremberg Laws. Marriage between Jews and Aryans was forbidden and three new classes of German citizenship were created that excluded Jews. Leonard Fields' Streamline Express - starring Victor Jory, Evelyn Venable and Esther Ralston - premiered.
George Cukor's adaptation of David Copperfield - starring Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Lawton and Edna May Oliver - premiered.
Kenneth Elton Kesey born in La Junta, Colorado.
Gregory La Cava's She Married Her Boss - starring Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas and Edith Fellows - premiered.
The musical comedy Jubilee with book by Moss Hart and music and lyrics by Cole Porter premiered in Boston.
A large fire broke out at a wharfside warehouse in Wapping. It would take four days for firefighters to put it out.
Ronald William Lacey born in Harrow. Heather Christine Sears born in Kensington.
Jerry Lee Lewis born in Ferriday, Louisiana. Colin David Daker born in Bilston, Staffordshire.
The first episode of Men Talking broadcast. The George Gershwin opera Porgy & Bess was performed for the first time at the Colonial Theatre in Boston. John Royce Mathis born in Gilmer, Texas.
Julia Elizabeth Wells born in Walton-on-Thames.
League of Nations officials announced that they had received a communication from Ethiopia asserting that Adwa had been bombed by Italian warplanes. The Second Italo-Ethiopian War had begun.
Horst Janson born in Wiesbaden.
The first episode of The Saturday Magazine broadcast.
Michael Powell's The Price Of A Song - starring Campbell Gullan, Marjorie Corbett, Gerald Fielding and Felix Aylmer - premiered.
Clement Attlee was appointed leader of the Labour Party in succession to George Lansbury who had resigned due to a wish to maintain his Christian pacifist principles.
Nazi Germany banned jazz from the radio.
The Last Days Of Pompeii - starring Preston Foster and Basil Rathbone - premiered. Sir Eric Drummond, the British Ambassador to Rome, met with Benito Mussolini and reassured him that Britain would not take any action to prevent Italy's advancement into Abyssinia beyond the - largely ineffective - sanctions agreed by the League of Nations, as this was considered to be a colonial issue and that Britain was in no position to go arouind telling anyone else how they should've attempt to have an empire.
England defeated Ireland three-one in the Home International championship at Windsor Park. Jackie Brown of Wolves opened the socring for the home side but debutant Ralph Birkett of Middlesbrough, Fred Tilson and Eric Brook gave England victory. Everton's Ted Sagar and Sep Smith of Leciester City also made their international debuts. There was no live radio coverage of this international; the Irish Football Association had agreed to allow a broadcast of the second-half for the payment of twenty guineas, but this offer had been refused by the BBC. In the First Division, Huddersfield Town remained top following a one-nil win over Grimsby Town. West Bromwich Albion won seven-nil at Aston Villa (Ginger Richardson scoring four), Everton beat Chelsea five-one and Sunderland won four-three at Wolverhampton Wanderers. In the Second Division, leaders Spirs thrashed Bradford Park Avenue four-nil, Manchester United defeated Sheffield United three-one and Newcastle United enjoyed a victory against Leicester City by the same score.
The Long March of the Red Army of the Communist Party of China ended. The March lasted three hundred and sixty eight days and covered over six thousand miles.
A brush fire in Malibu threatened the homes of several movie stars. Residences belonging to Lionel Atwill and Charles Farrell were destroyed, though they were unoccupied at the time. Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman and Bernard Lulu Rosencrantz were fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre. Ewan Hooper born in Dundee.
Winston Churchill warned that Germany was a greater threat to peace than the war in Abyssinia. 'We cannot afford to see Nazidom in its present phase of cruelty and intolerance, with all its hatreds and all its gleaming weapons, paramount in Europe at the present time,' he told the House of Commons.
Due to a food shortage in the Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany proclaimed 'meatless and butterless' days for those regions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Alan John Clarke born in Wallasey.
Michael James born in Nottingham. Peter Watkins born in Norbiton, Surrey.
In Chicago, Big Joe Williams & The Washboard Blues Singers made the first recording of 'Baby, Please Don't Go'. The British government said it would raise the school-leaving age from fourteen to fifteen.
Hamilton MacFadden's Fighting Youth - starring Charles Farrell, June Martel, Andy Devine and Herman Bing - premiered.
John Buchan became Governor General of Canada.
Eddie Pola's The Nut Club - featuring Vera Lynn - broadcast.
David John Battley born in Battersea.
The maiden flight of the RAF's Hawker Hurricane fighter took place.
Judy Catherine Claire Parfitt born in Sheffield.
British police arrested Hermann Görtz and charged him with spying for Germany. Mutiny on the Bounty was released. Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon born in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine.
The American balloon Explorer II was launched, reaching an altitude of over seventy two thousand feet with Captains Orvil A Anderson and Albert William Stevens aboard.
The Citizen & His Government featured Agnes Headlam-Morley discussing 'the Fascist and Communist Experiment.'
A general erection was held. The National Government led by Stanley Baldwin won another large, albeit reduced, majority. Ramsay MacDonald lost the Seaham constituency to Labour's Manny Shinwell.
A Night At The Opera - starring the Marx Brothers - premiered.
The German government protested to Britain that a new British regulation on German exports going into effect on 18 November was 'not in harmony with certain provisions of the German-British trade agreement.' The regulation stated that the exports must be accompanied by certificates of origin and was an attempt to prevent Italian exports from entering Britain.
Mary Irene Colette McCrossan born in Glasgow.
Sinclair Hill's Hyde Park Corner - starring Gordon Harker, Binnie Hale, Eric Portman and Gibb McLaughlin - premiered.
Verity Ann Lambert born in London. John Christopher Byrne born in Dublin.
Allan Stewart Konigsberg born in New York.
Heywood Allen born in New York.
Joseph Kane's The Sagebush Troubadour - starring Gene Autry and Barbara Pepper - premiered.
The King's younger sister, Princess Victoria of Wales, died at the age of sixty seven. She never married and her death and funeral were reported to be 'a terrible strain' on her ailing brother, who died just seven weeks after her.
A 'running commentary' on the second half of the friendly international between England and Germany, by Arsenal's manager George Allison broadcast from White Hart Lane. England won three-nil with two goals from George Camsell and one from Cliff Bastin. Bastin's Arsenal team-mate Jack Crayston made his England debut. The Football Association had approved the flying of the swastika flag, at the home of one Europe's leading Jewish clubs, and ill-conceived gesture then and positive sick in hindsight. There were no shocks in the day's five FA Cup replays, with Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic putting eight goals past Athenian League Walthamstow Avenue and Brighton & Hove Albion hitting six at Cheltenham Town. Bristol Rovers beat Northampton and Clapton Orient won at Aldershot with an extra-time winner. Folkestone beat Romford after extra-time and earned themselves a home tie with Clapton Orient in the Second Round.
Angela Rosemary Crow born in Wharfdale, Yorkshire.
Ted Drake of Arsenal scored all seven goals in The Gunners' seven-one victory over Aston Villa. Lee Ann Remick born in Quincy, Massachusetts. Barbara Leigh-Hunt born in Bath.
The Draw For The Third Round of the FA Cup broadcast for the first time on the National Programme.
The British Boy Scouts announced that two of the organisation's badges bearing the swastika would be redesigned to remove the symbol due to its increased association with Nazi Germany.
Rosemary Anne Leach born in Much Wemlock, Shropshire.
Clement Attlee brought a motion of censure against the government of Stanley Baldwin, explaining, 'If it is right for [Samuel Hoare] to resign, then it is right for the Government to resign.' Baldwin took chief responsibility for the Hoare–Laval debacle and declared that the proposals were 'absolutely and completely dead' and that the government would 'make no attempt to resurrect them.' Attlee's motion was defeated.
Michael Perrin and his team at Imperial Chemical Industries were able to successfully reproduce a substance created by accident two years earlier. The new substance was named polyethylene.
Eric Gilliat's Cricket In December broadcast in the Sports Talk strand.
The Italians first used chemical weapons in Ethiopia, spraying mustard gas and dropping bombs with mustard agent on Ethiopian soldiers and civilians. It was announced that Charles Lindbergh and his family had departed the United States for England due to kidnapping threats against their three-year-old son. Frederick Albert Heath born in Willesden.
A Christmas Eve Fancy starring Bransby Williams broadcast.
Unto Us broadcast. George Cukor's Sylvia Scarlett - starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant and William A Seiter's If You Could Only Cook - starring Herbert Marshall and Jean Arthur - premiered.
AB Campbell's A True Story broadcast. A Tale Of Two Cities - starring Ronald Colman - premiered.
Malcolm Sargent's Talking Of Music broadcast.
The Sumatra earthquake occurred. Michael Curtiz's Captain Blood - starring Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland and Basil Rathbone - premiered.
James Grover McDonald announced his resignation, effective tomorrow, as League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Coming from Germany. In his letter of resignation he explained that racial persecution in Germany had become so large a problem only the League itself could solve it by addressing its source.
William Seiter's If You Could Only Cook - starring Jean Arthur and Herbert Marshall - premiered.
Laurence Gilliam's Chimes At Midnight broadcast.
John Hilton's To The Unemployed broadcast.
The Anglo-Irish Trade War softened when Britain agreed to buy more cattle from the Irish Free State in exchange for selling more coal.
The first episode of the series India broadcast featuring the views of Clement Attlee MP. Floyd Patterson born in Waco, North Carolina.
Charles Rogers's Tit For Tat - starring Laurel and Hardy - premiered. David John Ryall born in Shoreham-By-Sea, Sussex.
The first episode of The Empire At Work broadcast.
Bernard Mainwaring's The Public Life Of Henry The Ninth - the first movie made by Hammer Films, starring Leonard Henry, Betty Frankiss and George Mozart - premiered.
Mao Zedong became a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China. Elvis Aaron Presley born in Tupelo, Mississippi.
England won the first of a four test series against the West Indies at Bridgetown by four wickets. Rain was the principal factor in a low-scoring match on a treacherous surface. Bob Wyatt put the West Indies in and Ken Farnes took four wickets for fifteen as half the hosts' batsmen were out for thirty one. George Headley rallied with forty four before being run out, but debutants George Paine and Eric Hollies finished the innings off. England, in turn, collapsed to eighty one for five by the end of the first day. Overnight rain then saturated the wicket to such an extent that play could not resume until after tea, after which Leslie Hylton took two wickets in the first over, Wyatt declared with England twenty one runs behind. West Indies captain Jackie Grant shuffled his batting order in the hope the pitch would ease, but three wickets fell for four runs. A further overnight deluge made play impossible until 3.30 on the third day. West Indies then lost three more wickets in adding eighteen runs and Grant declared, setting England just seventy three to win. Wally Hammond with an unbeaten twenty nine and Patsy Hendren (twenty) saw England to victory. Manny Martindale took five second innings wickets. Jim Smith, Jack Iddon and Errol Holmes made their test debuts.
Melvyn Hyams born in Wandsworth.
George Cukor's adaptation of David Copperfield - starring WC Fields and Freddie Bartholomew - premiered.
Bryan Pringle born in Tamowrth.
Jane Downs born in Bromley.
Huddie Ledbetter (Lead Belly) made his first professional recordings with producer Art Satherley in New York. Among the songs cut were 'CC Rider', ''Death Letter Blues', 'My Baby Quit Me' and 'You Don't Know My Mind'. Joe Melia born in Islington.
Arthur Bamber Gascoigne born in London.
West Indies won the second test at Port of Spain by two hundred and seventeen runs. Bob Wyatt again won the toss and put the West Indies in, but innings of ninety two from Derek Sealy and of ninety from Learie Constantine led to a respectable total (three hundred and two). England lost their first five wickets for twenty three runs to the West Indies pace bowlers. Patsy Hendren and Jack Iddon put on seventy one, then Iddon and Errol Holmes made seventy four together and Holmes, who made eighty five, put on sixty two with Bill Farrimond. West Indies' second innings was a determined effort with ninety three from George Headley and contributions from most of the other batsmen. England were set three hundred and twenty five to win and Wyatt – in what Wisden termed an 'amazing and inexplicable course' – all but reversed the batting order. Five wickets fell before tea on the last day and the innings was over with one ball of the day remaining with Maurice Leyland and Holmes the last pair. Oxford Univeristy's David Townsend made his test debut.
The BBC announced that it would begin the world's first public television service by the end of the year. In the event it took a little longer than that. James Flood's Wings In The Dark - starring Myrna Loy and Cary Grant - premiered.
Winston Churchill, 'the government's most persistent and relentless critic of the government's policy on India,' outlined his views on the issue to listeners.
Edmund Jeremy James Walker born in Chesterfield.
Richard Crossman's Youth Looks Ahead focused on 'impressions of Herr Hitler's Germany.' Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much - starring Leslie Banks, Edna Best and Peter Lorre - premiered.
In the House of Commons, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education - H Ramsbothom - was asked whether he was now prepared to accept the suggestion that an official opinion should be pronounced on the medical aspects of the caning of girls for the guidance of all local education authorities. Ramsbotham replied that corporal punishment had 'always been regarded as within the discretion of the school authorities' and it was, therefore, nothing to do with him. Alexander James Harvey born in Glasgow. Parker Brothers began selling the board game Monopoly®™. England defeated Ireland two-one in the Home International championship at Goodison Park. Cliff Bastin scored twice for the hosts whilst Alex Stevenson replied for the visitors. His Everton team-mate, Jackie Coulter also missed a penalty for the Irish. Jackie Bestall of Grimsby Town made his england debut. In the First Division, Birmingham (without Harry hibbs who was playing in goal for England) eased their relegation worries with a four-two victory over Middlesbrough whilst Sunderland and Aston Villa shared six goals at Roker Park. The Government of India Bill received its second reading in the House of Commons. Though it took another two years to come into effect, the Act separated Burma from India and provided for more autonomy to the Indian peoples, including erections.
Vincent Eugene Craddock born in Norfolk, Virginia. Delena Violet Kidd born in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
After eleven hours of deliberation, the jury in the Lindbergh kidnapping case found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of murder and sentenced him to death.
The Woman In Red starring Barbara Stanwyck was released. Salvatore Phillip Bono born in Detroit. The first episode of Five hours Back broadcast.
The third test at Georgetown was drawn. Bob Wyatt won the toss again and batted after a start delayed by rain. Subdued batting, in which George Paine, sent in as nightwatchman top-scored with forty nine, meant the total only reached one hundred and ninety eight by tea on the second day. An England collapse followed, but West Indies also batted slowly, with the exception of George Headley. Eric Hollies took seven wickets for fifty. England, with seventy one from the captain, failed to force the pace in the second innings and the declaration left West Indies just two hours to bat.
Freedom & Authority In The Modern World featured 'H Powys Greenwood on Nazi Germany.'
The probable radio debut of Vera Lynn as vocalist with The Joe Loss Orchestra broadcast.
The Little Colonel - starring Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore and Bill Bojangles Robinson - premiered.
Jack Hobbs announced his retirement from cricket.
Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrated the use of radar with the aid of the BBC's Daventry transmitter.
Albert Parker's The Riverside Murder - starring Basil Sydney, Judy Gunn, Zoe Davis, Alastair Sim and Reginald Tate - premiered.
Stephen John Thorne born in London.
An LNER train attained a record maximum speed of one hundred and eight miles per hour during a run from London to Newcastle.
Nikita Khrushchev was elected chief of the Moscow Communist Party. The largest crowd of the season, seven three thousand, two hundred and ninety five, watched the First Division's top two Arsenal and Sunderland share a goalless draw at Highbury. In the Second Division, Fulham beat Notts County seven-nil (Eddie Perry scored three).
James W Horne's Thicker Than Water - starring Laurel and Hardy - premiered. Tristan John De Vere Cole born in Redruth. Donald Tosh born in Scotland. Arsenal remained at the top of the First Division, beating Everton two-nil at Goodison Park. Having been injured in the first half, Arsenal's keeper Frank Moss, with is shoulder heavily strapped, played outside left. He scored Arsenal's opener with Ted Drake adding the second. Chelsea beat Leeds United seven-one (Joe Bamwick scoring four). Wolves defeated Liverpool five-three whilst second placed Sunderland won four-one at home to Stoke City.
Haile Selassie said that Ethiopia would never apologise to Italy for wrongs it had not committed. 'We will not be coerced or intimidated by the military preparations recently announced into according the satisfaction which Italy demands,' he said. West Indies won the fourth test at Kingston by an innings and one hundred and sixty one runs. West Indies set a record for their highest test score against England - five hundred and thirty five for seven - and George Headley's undefeated two hundred and seventy was the highest individual score for the hosts. When England batted, Manny Martindale inflicted a compound fracture of the jaw on Bob Wyatt and four other wickets fell for twenty six runs. Les Ames, with one hundred and twenty six, turned the innings around with Jack Iddon, who made fifty four, but England were required to follow on. Against Martindale and Learie Constantine, there was limited resistance and the match ended soon after lunch on the fourth day.
Barry Charles Cryer born in Leeds.
Rodney Bennett born in Chagford, Devon.
Susan Engel born in Vienna.
Julian Wyatt Glover born in Hampstead.
The Leni Riefenstahl-directed propaganda film Triumph Of The Will premiered at the Berlin Ufa-Palast. Michael Parkinson born in Cudworth, West Yorkshire.
Reynoldstown won the Grand National.
Herb Alpert born in Los Angeles.
The first episode of Freedom broadcast. Contributors to future episodes included Herbert Morrison, Wyndham Lewis, Erwin Schrödinger, GK Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw and Herbert Hanson, the Bishop of Durham.
Trevor Griffiths born in Ancoats, Manchester.
Cambridge won the Boat Race. Scotland beat England two=nil in the Home International championship at Hampden Park. Douglas Ducan of Derby County scored both goals. Wall Alsford of Spurs and Sunderland's Bob Gurney made their England debuts. In the First Division, Aresenal (who drew two-two with Chelsea) remained top of the table, Second placed Sunderland - without their regular strike-rorce of Gurney and Raich Carter, both on England duty - drew at West Bromwich Albion. When West Brom were awarded the penalty from which they equalised, Sunderland's Patsy Gallacher was sent off for protesting a bit too vociferously. The defence opened its case in Guernsey in the Channel Islands' first ever murder trial of a woman. Housekeeper, Gertrude De La Mare was accused of cutting the throat of her seventy six-year-old employer, Alfred Brouard, with a bread knife in order to inherit his estate. An apparent suicide note was left, stating that no blame should be attached to his housekeeper who had, in fact, written it herself. Though she was found guilty and sentenced to death, the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, a month later. She died in Holloway Prison, at the age of eighty eight.
Kodak introduced Kodachrome, the first commercially available colour film.
Despicable old fucker Oswald Mosley made a speech in front of five thousand numbskulls in Leicester in which he adopted a more openly anti-Semitic stance than previously revealed, declaring: 'For the first time I openly and publicly challenge the Jewish interest in this country commanding commerce, commanding the press, commanding the cinema, dominating the City of London, killing industry with the sweatshops. These great interests are not intimidating, and will not intimidate, the Fascist movement of the modern age.' What a complete scumbag. Terrance William Dicks, who was most definitely not a scumbag or anything even remotely like it, born in East Ham.
Alan Frederick Plater born in Jarrow.
G Men starring James Cagney premiered.
Dudley Stuart John Moore born in Hammersmith.
James Whale's The Bride Of Frankenstein - starring Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson and Elsa Lanchester - premiered in Los Angeles.
Gallipoli, 'in memory of those who died before Byzantium, to save the fishy straits of the sea, men swift in the work of War' broadcast.
Mark Of The Vampire starring Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan and Bela Lugosi was released.
Sheffield Wednesday beat West Bromwich Albion four-two in the FA Cup Final at Wembley aided by two late goals from Ellis Rimmer. Arsenal's five-three win against Leicester City gave The Gunners their third consecutive First Division title (and, fourth in five years) ahead of Sunderland. Ted Drake was the division's leading scorer with forty two goals.
Retroreflective pavement markers known as Cat's Eyes were first used on British roads.
Ian Bayley Curteis born in London.
A car carrying Jackie Coogan and four other people plunged off a road and into a creek East of San Diego. Coogan survived with minor injuries but everyone else was killed, including Jackie's father, the filmmaker Robert J Horner and the actor Junior Durkin.
Silver Jubilee celebrations for King George V began across the British Empire. The King and Queen attended services at St Paul's Cathedral.
The British government ordered aircraft manufacturers to increase their production to the fullest capacity and not to fill any foreign orders for aircraft without the Air Ministry's approval. The John Ford-directed The Informer premiered.
Terrance William Dicks born in East Ham.
Douglas Osborne McClure born in Glendale.
TE Lawrence was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in Dorset. He died six days later. The horror film Werewolf Of London was released.
The Berne Trial ended in Switzerland with the court determining The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion to be a hoax. Two Nazis were found extremely guilty of libel for distributing it. Benito Mussolini made a senate speech warning other nations not to intervene in the Abyssinia Crisis, saying that only Italy 'can be the judge in this most delicate matter.'
Dennis Christopher George Potter born in Berry Hill, Gloucestershire.
The Soviet airliner Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky collided with a stunt plane and exploded over Moscow, killing forty nine. It was the worst air disaster involving a passenger plane in history up to that time. England defeated The Netherlands one-nil in a firnedly international at the Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam. Debutant Fred Worrall of Portsmouth scored the winner. Played in appalling conditions, England struggled to overcome the Dutch part-timers lead by Puck Van Heels of Feyenoord. Bolton's George Eastham and the West Bromiwhc Albion duo of Ginger Richardson and Walter Boyes made their debuts.
Anthony Michael Wisher born in London. Thomas Lawrence died at the Bovington Camp military base in Dorset, from head injuries sustained six days earlier when he came off his Brough Superior SS100 motorcycle as he swerved to avoid two cyclists. He attained national fame as Lawrence of Arabia when he revealed some of the exploits of his British Intelligence missions as part of the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during The Great War. Colonel Lawrence changed his name to Shaw in 1923 in an effort to escape his fame and enlisted in the Royal Air Force.
Jesse Owens broke five world records and matched a sixth in a single afternoon of track and field events during the Big Ten championships at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Basil David Moss born in London. George Roubicek born in Austria.
Sheila Frances Steafel born in Johannesburg.
Maureen Rippingale born in Chelmsford. Peter Sasdy born in Budapest. Malcolm Frederick Evans born in Liverpool.
Anne Reid born in Jesmond, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
The German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter plane had its first test flight. George Fortmby recorded 'Fanlight Fanny' for Decca Records.
The sensational trial at the Old Bailey of Alma Rattenbury and her lover George Stoner for the murder of Alma's third husband Francis, bludgeoned to death with a mallet in March, concluded with Alam's aquittal and Stoner being found guilty and sentenced to death. The trial was heavily covered in the press, with one newspaper sending the entertainment editor rather than a crime writer to cover it. On 4 June Alma committed suicide, stabbing herself in the chest six times. Stoner's sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. He served seven years before being released to serve in the British Army during the Second World War. The case was subsequently the basis of the radio, stage and television play Cause Célèbre by Sir Terence Rattigan.
Britain introduced mandatory driving tests. John Peter McGrath born in Birkenhead.
David Roger Brierley born in Stockport.
Alfred Hitchcock's The Thirty Nine Steps - starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll - premiered. Mark McManus born in Hamilton.
Stanley Baldwin replaced the retiring Ramsay MacDonald as Prime Minister. Alfred Hitchcock's The Thirty Nine Steps released.
In a blunt speech in Cagliari, Benito Mussolini told the British to stay out the Abyssinia Crisis, saying 'they never took into consideration world opinion' while creating the British Empire. 'we have got old, and we have got new accounts to settle with Ethiopia, and we will settle them,' Mussolini declared. 'We will pay no attention to what is said in foreign countries. We exclusively are the judges of our own interests and the guarantors of our future.'
Edward, Prince of Wales made a statement at a British Legion conference endorsing the idea that a delegation of German war veterans would be welcomed in Britain and that a delegation of British veterans should visit Germany in return. George Formby's 'Fanlight Fanny'/'Share & Share Alike' released.
Arthur Fox and Charles Nicholl won the twenty four hour Le Mans endurance race. James Christopher Bolam born in Sunderland.
The first of a five test series between England and South Africa at Trent Bridge was drawn. Bob Wyatt scored a century and Stan Nichols took seven wickets but, with the tourists still one hundred and fifty runs away from making England bat again, the final day was washed out. Mandy Mitchel-Inness made his test debut.
Prince Edward's recent remarks were brought up in the House of Commons when Aneurin Bevan asked Foreign Minister Samuel Hoare about the idea to invite German war veterans to England. The Minister replied that it was a matter 'entirely for the ex-servicemen's organisations' and that he could neither 'approve nor disapprove' of the Prince's comments. Derren Michael Horwitz born in London. Derren Michael Horwitz born in London.
Peter Dudley born in Manchester.
In Geneva, the International Labour Conference adopted a convention designed to establish a forty-hour work week.
Fifty seven thousand boxing fans packed Yankee Stadium to watch Joe Louis defeat Primo Carnera by technical knockout in the sixth round.
Frederick John Inman born in Preston.
Derek Partridge born in London.
David Prowse born in Bristol.
South Africa won the second test at Lord's by one hundred and fifty seven runs. Match highlights included Bruce Mitchell's one hundred and sixty four for the tourists and Hedley Verity taking six wickets.
The first Belisha beacon became operational, in Wigan. Narciso Ibáñez Serrador born in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Fred Perry won his second consecutive Men's Singles title at Wimbledon, beating Gottfried von Cramm. George Formby's 'The Fiddler Kept On Fiddling'/'I Do Do Things, I Do' released.
Helen Wills Moody defeated fellow American Helen Jacobs in the Ladies' Singles Final at Wimbledon.
Excavators of the Moscow subway announced the discovery of underground dungeons, including a torture chamber, dating from the reign of Ivan the Terrible. Michael Leonard Williams born in Liverpool.
Seven were killed in Belfast during clashes between members of the Orange Order and Irish nationalists. Roy Senior Barraclough born in Preston.
William Gladstone Stewart born in Habrough, Lincolnshire.
King George conducted a fleet review, the largest since before the Great War, at Spithead. The Raven - starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi - premiered. The third test at Headingley was drawn. Wally Hammond top-scored in both of England's innings. Denis Smith, Wilf Barber, Joe Hardstaff Jr and Jim Sims all made their test debut.
Donald McNichol Sutherland born in Saint John, New Brunswick.
Peter Birrel Cohen born in Vienna.
A KLM passenger plane en route from Milan to Amsterdam crashed into a mountain in Switzerland, killing all thirteen aboard. Edward George Rogers born in Kennington.
Julian Pettifer born in Malmesbury, Wiltshir.
Del Henney born in Liverpool.
Foreign Secretary Samuel Hoare announced that the government would not allow British manufacturers to export war materiel to either Ethiopia or Italy until all efforts to resolve the Abyssinia Crisis were exhausted. Since Italy had no need to buy foreign weapons, the embargo only affected Ethiopia.
A staff member of the office of German sports commissioner Hans von Tschammer und Osten said that no Jews would represent Germany at next year's Berlin Olympics. The official claimed that Jews had competed in the qualifying events but none made the cut. In November Germany would give in somewhat to mounting international pressure and allow the half-Jewish fencer Helene Mayer onto the team.
Busby Berkeley's Funny Face - starring Joe E Brown, Ann Dvorak and Patricia Ellis - premiered.
Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd born in Manchester. Lisa Gastoni born in Alassio, Italy.
TE Lawrence's Seven Pillars Of Wisdom - written in 1922 - was first published in an edition for general circulation, two months after the author's death.
Defrocked Anglican priest Harold Davidson was arrested and charged with attempting suicide, having been on exhibition for the past ten days with a sign that he was 'fasting unto death' in protest against a ruling prohibiting him from performing church duties
Vera Day born in London.
Wanda Ventham born in Brighton.
Rodney Stephen Hull born on the Isle Of Sheppey.
Charlie Parker played his six hundred and thirty fifth and final first class cricket match for Gloucestershire against Middlesex at Cheltenham. In a career which began in 1903, Charlie took three thousand two hundred and seventy eight wickets. From 1920 he became one of the best left arm spin bowlers in England. A little quicker than most of his type, on rain affected or crumbling pitches he was almost unplayable due to his vicious spin. From 1929 to 1931 he formed, with Tom Goddard, the most lethal bowling combination in county cricket, aided by the brilliant close fielding of Wally Hammond. He nearly completed what would have been a unique feat in taking five wickets in five balls in first-class cricket. He hit the stumps five times in consecutive balls in his benefit match for Gloucestershire against Yorkshire at the County Cricket Ground, Bristol in 1922, but the second was called a no-ball. He was the first player to take three hat-tricks in a single first-class season in 1924. In 1931, though already forty-eight Charlie equalled Jack Hearne's record of taking one hundred wickets by 12 June. He played only one test, against Australia in a rain-ruined draw at Old Trafford in 1921.
James Smith born in Rothwell, Northamptonshire.
Janet Ethne Anne Henfrey born in Aldershot.
AEG demonstrated the Magnetophon reel-to-reel tape recorder at the Berlin Radio Fair.
Ivar Campbell's Radio Pirates (AKA: Big Ben Calling) - starring Leslie French, Mary Lawson, Warren Jenkins, Enid Stamp-Taylor, Fanny Wright and Hughie Green - premiered.
The fifth test at The Oval was drawn meaning South Africa won a test series in England for the first time. Maurice Leyland and Les Ames both his centuries in England's innings whilst Hopper Read, playing in his first test, took six wickets. Johnnie Clay also made his test debut.
Ivor Charlie Salter born in Taunton.
Jaems W Horne's Bonnie Scotland - starring Laurel and Hardy - premiered.
Haile Selassie ordered civilians to leave Addis Ababa and disperse across the country in order to reduce casualties from the anticipated aerial bombardment by Italian planes.
Copies of the latest issue of the American magazine Time appeared on British newsstands with one page torn out, referring to alleged intrigues by Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark to place her husband Prince George, Duke of Kent on the throne of Greece.
The Carter Family's version of 'Can The Circle Be Unbroken (By & By)' released.
Top Hat starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers premiered in New York.
Anna Karenina - starring Greta Garbo and Fredric March - premiered at the Capitol Theatre in New York. Anna Barry born in Gosport. Peter Cartwright born in Krugersdorp, South Africa.
An innings and one hundred and sixteen runs victory over Hampshire at Portsmouth secured Yorkshire's fourth cricket county championship in five years. Hedley Verity passed two hundred first clas wickets in a season for the first time in his career, taking two hundred and eleven at an average of 14.36. He took five wickets in an innings twenty two times and had ten or more wickets in seven matches. Kent's Tich Freeman, for the eight consecutive season, was the championship's leading wicket-taker (two hundred and one). His team-mate Frank Woolley was the championship's leadingrun-scorer (two thousand one hundred and eighty seven). Wally Hammond topped the bating averages in all first-clas cricket (two thousand six hundred and sixteen runs at 49.35).
Sir Malcolm Campbell became the first person to drive an automobile three hundred miles per hour, establishing a new record land speed at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
John Ernest Briggs born in Battersea.
John Roxburgh Clark born in London.
Nadim Joakim Sawalha born in Madaba, Jordan. Ronald MacLeod born in London.
Howard Hughes set a new air-speed record, reaching three hundred and fifty two miles per hour in his Hughes H-1 Racer over a fixed course near Santa Ana, California.
Shirley Anne Broadbent born in Aston-Under-Lyne.
The Reichstag convened for a special session and passed The Nuremberg Laws. Marriage between Jews and Aryans was forbidden and three new classes of German citizenship were created that excluded Jews. Leonard Fields' Streamline Express - starring Victor Jory, Evelyn Venable and Esther Ralston - premiered.
George Cukor's adaptation of David Copperfield - starring Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Lawton and Edna May Oliver - premiered.
Kenneth Elton Kesey born in La Junta, Colorado.
Gregory La Cava's She Married Her Boss - starring Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas and Edith Fellows - premiered.
A large fire broke out at a wharfside warehouse in Wapping. It would take four days for firefighters to put it out.
Ronald William Lacey born in Harrow. Heather Christine Sears born in Kensington.
Jerry Lee Lewis born in Ferriday, Louisiana. Colin David Daker born in Bilston, Staffordshire.
The first episode of Men Talking broadcast. The George Gershwin opera Porgy & Bess was performed for the first time at the Colonial Theatre in Boston. John Royce Mathis born in Gilmer, Texas.
Julia Elizabeth Wells born in Walton-on-Thames.
League of Nations officials announced that they had received a communication from Ethiopia asserting that Adwa had been bombed by Italian warplanes. The Second Italo-Ethiopian War had begun.
Horst Janson born in Wiesbaden.
The first episode of The Saturday Magazine broadcast.
Michael Powell's The Price Of A Song - starring Campbell Gullan, Marjorie Corbett, Gerald Fielding and Felix Aylmer - premiered.
Clement Attlee was appointed leader of the Labour Party in succession to George Lansbury who had resigned due to a wish to maintain his Christian pacifist principles.
Nazi Germany banned jazz from the radio.
The Last Days Of Pompeii - starring Preston Foster and Basil Rathbone - premiered. Sir Eric Drummond, the British Ambassador to Rome, met with Benito Mussolini and reassured him that Britain would not take any action to prevent Italy's advancement into Abyssinia beyond the - largely ineffective - sanctions agreed by the League of Nations, as this was considered to be a colonial issue and that Britain was in no position to go arouind telling anyone else how they should've attempt to have an empire.
England defeated Ireland three-one in the Home International championship at Windsor Park. Jackie Brown of Wolves opened the socring for the home side but debutant Ralph Birkett of Middlesbrough, Fred Tilson and Eric Brook gave England victory. Everton's Ted Sagar and Sep Smith of Leciester City also made their international debuts. There was no live radio coverage of this international; the Irish Football Association had agreed to allow a broadcast of the second-half for the payment of twenty guineas, but this offer had been refused by the BBC. In the First Division, Huddersfield Town remained top following a one-nil win over Grimsby Town. West Bromwich Albion won seven-nil at Aston Villa (Ginger Richardson scoring four), Everton beat Chelsea five-one and Sunderland won four-three at Wolverhampton Wanderers. In the Second Division, leaders Spirs thrashed Bradford Park Avenue four-nil, Manchester United defeated Sheffield United three-one and Newcastle United enjoyed a victory against Leicester City by the same score.
The Long March of the Red Army of the Communist Party of China ended. The March lasted three hundred and sixty eight days and covered over six thousand miles.
A brush fire in Malibu threatened the homes of several movie stars. Residences belonging to Lionel Atwill and Charles Farrell were destroyed, though they were unoccupied at the time. Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman and Bernard Lulu Rosencrantz were fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre. Ewan Hooper born in Dundee.
Winston Churchill warned that Germany was a greater threat to peace than the war in Abyssinia. 'We cannot afford to see Nazidom in its present phase of cruelty and intolerance, with all its hatreds and all its gleaming weapons, paramount in Europe at the present time,' he told the House of Commons.
Due to a food shortage in the Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany proclaimed 'meatless and butterless' days for those regions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Alan John Clarke born in Wallasey.
Michael James born in Nottingham. Peter Watkins born in Norbiton, Surrey.
In Chicago, Big Joe Williams & The Washboard Blues Singers made the first recording of 'Baby, Please Don't Go'. The British government said it would raise the school-leaving age from fourteen to fifteen.
Hamilton MacFadden's Fighting Youth - starring Charles Farrell, June Martel, Andy Devine and Herman Bing - premiered.
John Buchan became Governor General of Canada.
David John Battley born in Battersea.
The maiden flight of the RAF's Hawker Hurricane fighter took place.
Judy Catherine Claire Parfitt born in Sheffield.
British police arrested Hermann Görtz and charged him with spying for Germany. Mutiny on the Bounty was released. Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon born in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine.
The American balloon Explorer II was launched, reaching an altitude of over seventy two thousand feet with Captains Orvil A Anderson and Albert William Stevens aboard.
The Citizen & His Government featured Agnes Headlam-Morley discussing 'the Fascist and Communist Experiment.'
A general erection was held. The National Government led by Stanley Baldwin won another large, albeit reduced, majority. Ramsay MacDonald lost the Seaham constituency to Labour's Manny Shinwell.
A Night At The Opera - starring the Marx Brothers - premiered.
The German government protested to Britain that a new British regulation on German exports going into effect on 18 November was 'not in harmony with certain provisions of the German-British trade agreement.' The regulation stated that the exports must be accompanied by certificates of origin and was an attempt to prevent Italian exports from entering Britain.
Mary Irene Colette McCrossan born in Glasgow.
Sinclair Hill's Hyde Park Corner - starring Gordon Harker, Binnie Hale, Eric Portman and Gibb McLaughlin - premiered.
Verity Ann Lambert born in London. John Christopher Byrne born in Dublin.
Allan Stewart Konigsberg born in New York.
Heywood Allen born in New York.
Joseph Kane's The Sagebush Troubadour - starring Gene Autry and Barbara Pepper - premiered.
The King's younger sister, Princess Victoria of Wales, died at the age of sixty seven. She never married and her death and funeral were reported to be 'a terrible strain' on her ailing brother, who died just seven weeks after her.
A 'running commentary' on the second half of the friendly international between England and Germany, by Arsenal's manager George Allison broadcast from White Hart Lane. England won three-nil with two goals from George Camsell and one from Cliff Bastin. Bastin's Arsenal team-mate Jack Crayston made his England debut. The Football Association had approved the flying of the swastika flag, at the home of one Europe's leading Jewish clubs, and ill-conceived gesture then and positive sick in hindsight. There were no shocks in the day's five FA Cup replays, with Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic putting eight goals past Athenian League Walthamstow Avenue and Brighton & Hove Albion hitting six at Cheltenham Town. Bristol Rovers beat Northampton and Clapton Orient won at Aldershot with an extra-time winner. Folkestone beat Romford after extra-time and earned themselves a home tie with Clapton Orient in the Second Round.
Angela Rosemary Crow born in Wharfdale, Yorkshire.
Ted Drake of Arsenal scored all seven goals in The Gunners' seven-one victory over Aston Villa. Lee Ann Remick born in Quincy, Massachusetts. Barbara Leigh-Hunt born in Bath.
The Draw For The Third Round of the FA Cup broadcast for the first time on the National Programme.
The British Boy Scouts announced that two of the organisation's badges bearing the swastika would be redesigned to remove the symbol due to its increased association with Nazi Germany.
Rosemary Anne Leach born in Much Wemlock, Shropshire.
Clement Attlee brought a motion of censure against the government of Stanley Baldwin, explaining, 'If it is right for [Samuel Hoare] to resign, then it is right for the Government to resign.' Baldwin took chief responsibility for the Hoare–Laval debacle and declared that the proposals were 'absolutely and completely dead' and that the government would 'make no attempt to resurrect them.' Attlee's motion was defeated.
Michael Perrin and his team at Imperial Chemical Industries were able to successfully reproduce a substance created by accident two years earlier. The new substance was named polyethylene.
Eric Gilliat's Cricket In December broadcast in the Sports Talk strand.
A Christmas Eve Fancy starring Bransby Williams broadcast.
Unto Us broadcast. George Cukor's Sylvia Scarlett - starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant and William A Seiter's If You Could Only Cook - starring Herbert Marshall and Jean Arthur - premiered.
AB Campbell's A True Story broadcast. A Tale Of Two Cities - starring Ronald Colman - premiered.
Malcolm Sargent's Talking Of Music broadcast.
The Sumatra earthquake occurred. Michael Curtiz's Captain Blood - starring Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland and Basil Rathbone - premiered.
James Grover McDonald announced his resignation, effective tomorrow, as League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Coming from Germany. In his letter of resignation he explained that racial persecution in Germany had become so large a problem only the League itself could solve it by addressing its source.
William Seiter's If You Could Only Cook - starring Jean Arthur and Herbert Marshall - premiered.
Laurence Gilliam's Chimes At Midnight broadcast.
