The first successful helicopter flight is conducted in a craft designed by Heinrich Focke
Jacques Maritain publishes Humanisme integral: problemes temporels et spirituels d’une nouvelle chretienne (Integral Humanism: Temporal and Spiritual Problems of a New Christendom)
American athlete Jesse Owens, a black man, wins four gold medals at the summer Olympic games in Berlin—a bitter pill for Adolf Hitler, who had earlier boasted of the inherent superiority of the “Aryan race” (August 9)
Bernard DeVoto publishes a scathing review of Thomas Wolfe’s The Story of a Novel which outrages the sensitive Wolfe and leads to his leaving his longtime editor, Maxwell Perkins (April 25)
