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Wall Street Crashes
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Mohandas Gandhi leads a march to the sea in protest against the Indian salt monopoly
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Mohandas Gandhi agrees to suspend civil disobedience in India
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Scottish Nationalist Party is founded to fight for an independent Scotland
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Gresford Mine Disaster kills 266 in North Wales
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Italy, France and Britain meet to discuss German rearmament
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Conservative Stanley Baldwin becomes prime minister for the third time
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First Penguin paperbacks go on sale
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George V dies and is succeeded by Edward VIII
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The Hobbit is published
The Hobbit is published