Events
- The first Flash Gordon comic strip is published.
- Boris Pasternak and Korney Chukovsky are among those present at the first Congress of the Soviet Union of Writers.
- The first Nero Wolfe book is published by Rex Stout.
- The first Sir Henry Merrivale mystery novel is published by John Dickson Carr writing as "Carter Dickson".
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.”
—Chinese proverb.
“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)