• Trotsky expelled from the USSR
• Dictatorship established in Yugoslavia under King Alexander I; constitution suppressed
• Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 32st President of the U.S.
• Arabs attack Jews in Palestine following disputes over the Jewish use of the Wailing Wall
• Name of the Servo-Croat-Slovene Kingdom changed to Yugoslavia
• Round Table Conference between Viceroy and Indian leaders on dominion status
• Hitler appoints Himmler "Reichsfuhrer S.S."
• Jewish Agency becomes representative of all Zionist and non-Zionist Jews
• Albert B. Fall, Secretary of the Interior under Coolidge, convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe from Edw. Dohemy in Teapot Dome scandal;  sentenced to one year in prison and $100,000 fine.
• Literature:  Hemingway, "A Farewell to Arms";  Sinclair Lewis, "Dodsworth";  Elmer Rice, "Street Scene" (Pulitzer Prize for drama);  Remarque, "All Quiet on the Western Front";  Thomas Wolfe, "Look Homeward, Angel";  Virginia Woolf, "A Room of One's Own"
• Lutheran World Conference held in Copenhagen
• Fine arts:   Chagall,  "Love Idyll"; Klee, "Fool in a Trance";  Le Corbuier, "The City of Tomorrow";   Museum of Modern Art opens in NY City; O'Keeffe, "Black Flower and Blue Larkspur";  Picasso, "Woman in Armchair"; Grant Wood, "Woman With Plants"
• St. Vitus Cathedral completed in Prague (begun in 1344)
• Hit films:   "The Love Parade";  "Pandora's Box";  the first Mickey Mouse films;  and "Broadway Melody" first of the great revue films;  the big change was 'talkies', which sounded the death knell for silent movies
• Popular songs:  "Stardust";  "Tiptoe Throught the Tulips"; "Singin' In The Rain"; "Moanin' Low"
• Aaron Copeland:  "Symphonic Ode"
• Noel Coward "Bitter Sweet"   operetta
• Science:  Einstein "Unified Field Theory" ;  Nobel Prize for physics:  Prince Louis de Broglie for discovering the wave nature of electrons
• Cascade Tunnel, longest RR tunnel in N. America finsihed; begun in 1926
• 14 the edition of "Encyclopaedia Britannica" appears
• Morrison introduces quartz-crystal clocks for precise timekeeping
• U.S. Army monoplane completes 150 hours in flight, refueling in the air
• Doisy and Butenandt, Us. and Germany, respectively, almost simultaneously isolate estrone, one of the hormones responsible  for sexual function in the female
• Construction begins on Empire State building in N.Y. City
• The term "Apartheid" used for first time
• "Black Friday", U.S. Stock Exchange collapes; world economic crisis begins;  U.S. securities lose $26 billion in value
• Aviator Richard Byrd and three companions fly over South Pole
• Bell Labs in the U.S. experiment with color t.v.
• Kodak introduces 16 mm color movie film
• "Graf Zeppelin" airship flies around the world in 20 days, 4 hours, 14 minutes (21,255 miles)
• St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago
• U.S. Open won by Bobby Jones
• Phillies wins World Series, defeating Chicago 4-1

Yikes to that last one;  hope the Yankees will win this World Series, although they sure got off to a lousy start!   As to the rest;   the world is in turmoil..so what's new?  This is almost twenty years before the Jewish State of Israel was formed; yet, the strife reads much the same as now.  Discouuraging.

Certainly big excitement in the movies with the arrival of 'talkies."  I sometimes watch a silent movie on the class movie channel.  This is a good thing to do, as it forces one to be attentive every minute....no running off for a snack or reading a few pages of the novel at hand.   If you fail to read a frame, you're lost!  lol

As always, the literature and art last and last.   I have noted this in every 'history' blog I've written.  Isn't it reassuring?  Even in the midst of chaos, great works are produced.

We know this year marked the beginning of the Great Depression;  that Hitler was poising Germany for WWII;  so it is with dread that I even looked at this page in my wonderful history book,  "The Timetables of History," by Bernard Grun.   If you don't have this book, I can't urge you strongly enough to buy it.