Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• 2,700,000 unemployed in Britain this meant 7 million people depended on the dole. The North of Britain suffered mostly
• January 28th - Shanghai captured by advancing Japanese forces
• March 14th - Ivar Kreuger killed himself in Paris with liabilities of £50,000,000 and caused panic in the stock markets again
• March 18th - Sydney Harbour Bridge opened - the worlds largest single-arch span
• March - The remains of the kidnapped Lindbergh baby are found after a ransom of $50,000 was paid
• April 24th - Mass trespass on Kinder Scout, by hikers to gain public access to the Peak District
• May 14th - President Doumer of France was shot by Paul Gorguloff
• May 21st - Miss Amelia Earhart flew the Atlantic solo from Newfoundland landing at Culmore, nr Londonderry
• July - Los Angeles Olympics, Mildred 'Babe' Didrikson won Gold Medal in 80 mtr hurdles, Gold in the Javelin and silver in High Jump
• October 30th - Riots in many cities in Britain provoked by hunger marchers
• November 8th - Landslide victory for Franklin Delano Roosevelt after promise of New Deal
• November - After general elections in Germany, Hitler's National Socialist Party was now the largest in the Reichstag
• December 25th - First Royal Christmas radio broadcast to the Empire by George V
• Aldous Huxley published Brave New World
• Sir Thomas Beecham founded the London Philharmonic Orchestra
• Franklin D Roosevelt elected 32nd US President
• Indian National Congress Party is declared illegal and Gandhi was arrested
• Cockcroft and Walton split the Atom
• The neutron was discovered

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Thank You

January 2nd

• Eros Figure at Piccadilly,
• Bandit-ridden Manchuria,
• Disaster to Vatican Library,
• Potentates of India,
• The Film Kameradschaft,
• French Exhibition at Burlington House,
• Siam’s Shadow puppets

February 13th

• The world disarmament conference at Geneva,
• British Fiscal Policy,
• Miss Europe,
• Naval developments and disarmament,
• Treasures from Seleucia,
• South Africa House in Trafalgar Square
• colour advert for Hillman Wizard Car,
• discoveries at Monte Alban,
• Rasputin movie Holy Devil,
• George Washington Bicentenary,
• Shanghai.

April 2nd

• The Monte Alban Treasures,
• Animal Life,
• world’s largest wind tunnel,
• evolution of the pack of cards,
• The First Royal Maundy,
• Southern Arabia,
• rat kangaroos and Uakari Monkeys,
• Mountains of South Africa, and Zulu Magic.

April 23

• Bertillion Detection in Firearms,
• Burmese Weapons,
• Korean Art,
• The Milky Way photos,
• Sydney Bridge Opening,
• Vasco De Gamma,
• full colour of Ocean Cruise Luxury liners,
• colour ad of Morris Oxford Six car,
• Shakespeare Memorial theatre opening,
• Ocean liner holiday making

June 4th

• The burning of the Georges Phillippar,
• Index to Engravings in Vol. CLXXXI
• War Office Convoy (British cars),
• Royal Tournament: Motor-cycling acrobatics,
• Hindu-Muslim riots,
• Solo man and evolution,
• Owner of Eclipse, the racehorse, The 1932 Derby and Tom Wall’s Victory,
• The Zuider Zee becomes a Lake,
• Floods in England
  

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