The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public for the first time.

The Museum of Modern Art opens to in New York City.

Meet the Press makes its television debut.

The secret agent Sidney Reilly is executed by the secret police of the Soviet Union.

The Prime Minister of Japan Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.

A fire in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan kills almost 2000 people.

Haile Selassie becomes emperor of Ethiopia.

William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest is first performed at Whitehall Palace in London.