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  • Dachau opens
  • Japan leaves the League of Nations
  • FDR's New Deal programs are implemented
  • Prohibition repealed
  • Tennesee Valley Authority created
  • Hoover Dam completed
  • TWA takes delivery of DC-1 aircraft

    Sports

    Stanley Cup: N.Y. Rangers vs. Toronto Maple Leafs Series: 3-1
    US Open Golf: Johnny Goodman Score: 287 Course: North Shore GC Location: Glenview, IL
    World Series: New York Giants vs. Washington Twins Series: 4-1

    Nobel Prizes

    Chemistry
    The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section.

    Literature
    BUNIN, IVAN ALEKSEYEVICH, stateless domicile in France, b. 1870, (in Voronezh, Russia), d. 1953: "for the strict artistry with which he has carried on the classical Russian traditions in prose writing"

    Peace
    ANGELL, Sir NORMAN (RALPH LANE), Great Britain, b. 1873, d. 1967: Writer. Member of the Commission ExŽcutive de la SociŽtŽ des Nations (Executive Committee of the League of Nations) and the National Peace Council. Author of the book The Great Illusion, among others.

    Physiology or Medicine
    MORGAN, THOMAS HUNT, U.S.A., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, b. 1866, d. 1945: "for his discoveries concerning the role played by the chromosome in heredity"

    Physics
    SCHR…DINGER, ERWIN, Austria, Berlin University, Germany, b. 1887, d. 1961; and DIRAC, PAUL ADRIEN MAURICE, Great Britain, Cambridge University, b. 1902, d.1984: "for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory"

    Pulitzer Prizes

    Drama:

    Popular Movies

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    3. Cavalcade
    4. 42nd Street
    5. Gold Diggers
    6. I'm No Angel
    7. The Kid from Spain
    8. Little Women
    9. Rasputin and the Empress
    10. State Fair

     

     

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