![]() ![]() This conference condones the use of birth control in limited circumstances, a move away from the Christian views on contraception expressed by the Sixth Conference a decade earlier. 5 July – the Seventh Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops opens.It gives its first concert on 22 October at the Queen's Hall, London. 28 May – the BBC Symphony Orchestra is formed as a permanent full-scale ensemble under the directorship of Adrian Boult.5–24 May – Yorkshire-born Amy Johnson becomes the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (11,000 miles to landing at Darwin).5 May – an explosion on the eleventh floor of Bibby's oil cake mill in Liverpool leaves five dead and almost one hundred injured.30 April – first section of the 132 kV AC National Grid, the Central Scotland Electricity Scheme, is switched on in Edinburgh.22 April – the United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.18 April – BBC radio listeners uniquely hear the announcement "Good evening. ![]() 1 April – Poor law unions and workhouses abolished under the Local Government Act 1929, responsibility for public assistance transferring to local authorities and workhouses becoming hospitals or public assistance institutions under their control.April – John Gielgud plays the title role of Hamlet for the first time, at The Old Vic in London.9 March – the British Broadcasting Corporation opens its second high-power medium-wave transmitter at Brookmans Park, north of London, and with it launches its "Regional Scheme" which sees station 5XX renamed as the National Programme while 2LO becomes the London Regional Programme.March – fitness organisation the Women's League of Health and Beauty set up by Mary Bagot Stack by 1939 it will have over 100,000 members.1 February – The Times publishes its first crossword.1 January – the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain begins publishing a newspaper, the Daily Worker. ![]()
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