World Events
Japan invades China.
- Composer George Gershwin dies at the age of 38. He wrote many popular songs and experimented with 'symphonic jazz' in Rhapsody in Blue and Porgy and Bess.
- The Duke of Windsor, the former King Edward VIII, marries Wallis Simpson in France.
- The jet engine is built.
Margaret Mitchell wins a Pulitzer Prize for her epic novel Gone with the Wind.