Isak Dinesen's novel Out of Africa is published.

Sergey Eisenstein's movie Aleksandr Nevsky is released.

Daniel O. Fagunwa's novel Ogboju ode iinn igbo irummale (The Forest of a Thousand Demons) is published.

Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Lady Vanishes is released.

George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, about his experiences while fighting for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War, is published.

Marcel Pagnol's movie La Femme du boulanger (The Baker's Wife) is released.

Jean-Paul Sartre's novel La Nausee (Nausea) is published.

Violence escalates between Jews and Arabs in British-controlled Palestine.

10 Jan.

The Japanese occupy Tsingtao.

Jean Anouilh 's play La Sauvage (The Restless Heart) is staged at the Theatre de Mathurius in Paris.

4 Feb.

British engineer John L. Baird demonstrates mechanically based high-definition color television in London.

10 Feb.

King Carol of Romania dismisses Prime Minister Octavian Goga, suspends the constitution, and abolishes all political parties.

12 Feb.

At Berchtesgaden, Adolf...