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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“Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.”
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