Events
- Candide by Voltaire is declared obscene by the United States Customs and seized in 1930.
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is banned in the USSR because of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's interest in the occult.
- George Orwell returns to the UK after living in Paris.
- Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir meet for the first time at the École Normale. Twenty-one-year-old de Beauvoir becomes the youngest person ever to obtain the agrégation in philosophy, and comes second in the final exam, beaten only by Sartre.
- Ellery Queen publishes his first mystery novel.
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“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
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