Max Ernst affair with Leonor Fini who was invited to exhibit in Milan alongside Giorgio de Chirico Jean Arp breaks with the Surrealists Victor Brauner paints Self-portrait with enucleated eye Salvador Dali paints -> The Persistence of Memory Julien Levy opens his gallery in New York. Ithell Colquhoun first visits Paris. The release of the movie City Lights starring Charlie Chaplin. The original film version of Dracula with Bela Lugosi is released. The Second Spanish Republic is proclaimed in Madrid. In an attempt to stop the banking crisis in Central Europe from causing a worldwide financial meltdown, President Herbert Hoover issues the -> Hoover Moratorium. Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia Geli Raubal is found in Hitler's apartment Dick Tracy, a comic strip detective character created by cartoonist Chester Gould, made its debut appearance in the Detroit Mirror newspaper. First exhibition of Surrealist art in the United States, Newer Super-Realism, opens at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut. Back to 1930 Forward to 1932 Back to Timeline