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Aaron Douglas (African American) paints a series of murals for Fiske University
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All Quiet on the Western Front wins Academy Award for Outstanding Motion Picture
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Sinclair Lewis wins Nobel Prize for Literature for Babbitt, becoming the first American to do so
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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Louis Armstrong "All of Me"
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Charles Darrow "invented" Monopoly
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Fay Wray co-stars with a giant mechanical ape in King Kong
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Bonnie and Clyde shot
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WPA Circus debuts in Brooklyn.
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Bill France, who operates a local gas station, finishes fifth in the first stock car race ever held in Daytona Beach, Fla. It's on a course that includes a southbound leg of Highway A1A, then northbound along the beach south of the city.
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Federal Theatre Project opens stage version of "It Can't Happen Here," by Sinclair Lewis, simultaneously in sixteen cities
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Amelia Earhart's plane goes down some 35-100 miles off the coast of Howland Island. She is presumed to have died attempting to be the first woman to fly around the world
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Disney releases Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs during Christmas. The film is the first full-length animated feature (83 minutes in length) in color and with sound.
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The Grapes of Wrathby John Steinbeck is published
