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Grant Wood's sister and dentist serve as models for American Gothic
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Aaron Douglas
Aaron Douglas (African American) paints a series of murals for Fiske University -
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front wins Academy Award for Outstanding Motion Picture -
Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis wins Nobel Prize for Literature for Babbitt, becoming the first American to do so -
Brave New World Published
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley -
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong "All of Me" -
Monopoly
Charles Darrow "invented" Monopoly -
Fay Wray co-stars with a giant mechanical ape in King Kong
Fay Wray co-stars with a giant mechanical ape in King Kong -
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie and Clyde shot -
WPA Circus debuts in Brooklyn.
WPA Circus debuts in Brooklyn. -
The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach Florida
Bill France, who operates a local gas station, finishes fifth in the first stock car race ever held in Daytona Beach, Fla. It's on a course that includes a southbound leg of Highway A1A, then northbound along the beach south of the city. -
Sinclair Lewis
Federal Theatre Project opens stage version of "It Can't Happen Here," by Sinclair Lewis, simultaneously in sixteen cities -
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart's plane goes down some 35-100 miles off the coast of Howland Island. She is presumed to have died attempting to be the first woman to fly around the world -
Snow White
Disney releases Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs during Christmas. The film is the first full-length animated feature (83 minutes in length) in color and with sound. -
The Grapes of Wrathby John Steinbeck is published
The Grapes of Wrathby John Steinbeck is published
