Major events of the year to 8th June
JANUARY
7th: agrees to support a non-intervention pact on the Spanish Civil War if other powers do the same
10th: Britain bans volunteers from fighting in Spain, imposing a two year jail sentence on offenders
19th Margot Fonteyn scores a triumph in her debut with Sadler's Wells ballet company
20th:Roosevelt sworn in for a second term as US President
FEBRUARY
1st: Thirteen Trotskyites executed on Stalin's orders
12th: Petrol goes up to 1 shilling and sevenpence per gallon
16th: Nylon is patented
23rd: Chiang Kai-shek rejects offers from the Communists to work together against the Japanese offensive
MARCH
3rd: Australia wins the fifth Test to retain the Ashes in cricket
9th: George Orwell publishes 'The Road to Wigan Pier', an unsparing description of the life of the unemployed.
24th: Oxford win the boat race for the first time in fourteen years
APRIL
11th: 29 people die in clashes on the North West frontier in India
14th: A new threepenny bit (coin) comes into circulation in the UK
20th: Franco declares his group to be the only permitted Spanish party
27th: German planes indiscriminately bomb the city of Guernica in Spain
MAY
6th: The airship 'Hindenburg' explodes in New Jersey
12th: The coronation of King George VI in London
23rd: Death of John D Rockefeller, American tychoon, at age 98
28th: Neville Chamberlain takes over from Baldwin as British Prime Minister
JUNE
3rd: The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson in France
7th: Hollywood actress Jean Harlow dies of kidney disease aged 26
MOVIES OF THE YEAR
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
A Day At The Races
Oh, Mr Porter
The Awful Truth
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