Adolf Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany. The German parliament building burns and Hitler blames the Communists. The Nazi party grows in strength and the first concentration camp is opened in Dachau, near Munich, to house Communists and others who oppose the new regime.

Joseph Goebbels becomes the Reich minister of public enlightenment and propaganda, and Hermann Goering creates the Gestapo.

Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd President of the USA and declares that Americans have nothing to fear but fear itself.

The 21st amendment is ratified ending prohibition.

Air France is founded, and in Slough, England, Forrest Mars launches the Mars Bar, to the delight of chocolate lovers everywhere.

Gertrude Stein publishes her memoir, "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas".

British biochemist Ernest Kennaway isolates the first chemical carcinogens, when he finds that cigarette smoke and air pollution can cause cancer.