Alfred Hitchcock's movie The 39 Steps is released.

Afrikaans poet N. P. van Wyk Louw's Alleenspraak (Monologue) is published.

Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will, a documentary on her party's Nuremberg rallies, is released.

German radio bans jazz music of black or Jewish origin.

American Lincoln Ellsworth successfully flies twenty-three hundred miles across the Antarctic.

7 Jan.

France and Italy announce diplomatic agreements regarding conflicting interests in Africa.

13 Jan.

A plebiscite in the Saarland results in the return of that territory to Germany, effective 1 March.

14 Jan.

The Lower Zambezi railroad bridge is completed and is the world's longest until the completion of the Huey P. Long Bridge in Metairie, Louisiana, on 10 December.

15-17 Jan.

Soviet Communists Grigory Zinovyev, Lev Kamenev, and others are tried for treason in connection with their alleged complicity in the murder of Sergey Kirov and are sent to prison for terms of five to ten...