Events
- August 18 - The 38-year-old Spanish dramatist, Federico García Lorca, is arrested by the authorities and is never seen alive again. His brother-in-law, Manuel Fernández-Montesinos, the leftist mayor of Granada, is shot the same day.
- Life magazine is first published.
- The Carnegie Medal for excellence in children's literature is established in the UK.
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