defeat of Labour Party, in the country's greatest ever electoral landslide. November November 7 The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed by Mao Zedong. Red China News Agency (a predecessor of the Xinhua News Agency) is officially founded, and news wire service start in Ruijin, Jiangxi Province, China. November 8 French police launch a large-scale raid against Corsican bandits. The Panama Canal is closed for a couple of weeks, due to damage caused by earthquakes. November 26 – Heavy hydrogen, later named deuterium, is discovered by American chemist Harold Urey. December December 5 – The original Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow (1883) is dynamited, by order of Joseph Stalin. December 8 – Carl Friedrich Goerdeler is appointed Reich Price Commissioner, in Germany to enforce the deflationary policies of the Brüning government. December 9 – The Spanish Constituent Cortes approves the Spanish Constitution of 1931, effectively establishing the Second Spanish Republic. December 10 – Niceto Alcalá-Zamora is elected president of the Spanish Republic. December 11 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom enacts the Statute of Westminster, which establishes a status of legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, Canada, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand and the Union of South Africa. December 13 – Wakatsuki Reijirō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan. December 19 – The UAP/Country Coalition, led by Joseph Lyons, defeats the Australian Labor Government, led by Prime Minister James Scullin. Coming in the aftermath of two splits in the Labor Party, the election comes about due to the defeat of the Scullin Government on the floor of the House of Representatives – to date, it is the last federal election where a one-term government was defeated. Lyons will be sworn in January 6th the following year, but not before disbanding the Coalition, after the UAP wins enough seats to form a government in its own right. Births January January 1 Mona Hammond, Jamaican-born British actress (d. 2022) Mohammad Ali Samatar, 5th Prime Minister of Somalia (d. 2016) January 2 – Toshiki Kaifu, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2022) January 4 Guido Messina, Italian road and track cyclist (d. 2020) William Deane, 22nd Governor-General of Australia Cleopa Msuya, 3rd Prime Minister of Tanzania January 5 Alvin Ailey, American choreographer (d. 1989) Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist Robert Duvall, American actor and director Dave Peterson, American ice hockey coach January 6