January 10 - Tintin, a comic bookcharacter created by Hergé, makes his debut. He went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 40 languages, and loved across the world.
January 15 - First issue of Annales d'histoire économique et sociale published in France by Armand Collin .
June 27 - The first public demonstration of a mechanical color television, by H. E. Ives and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York. The first images are of a bouquet of roses and an American flag. The images are transmitted between New York and Washington.
Milton Berle appears in an experimental television broadcast.
