1934

Years: 1931 1932 1933 - 1934 - 1935 1936 1937
Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Template:C20YearInTopic

1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar).

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1 Events

Events

May 11 - Dust Bowl: A strong two-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl.
May 15 - The United States Department of Justice offers a $25,000 reward for John Dillinger.
May 15 - Karlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
May 23 - Near their hide-out in Black Lake, Louisiana, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are ambushed and shot dead by lawmen.
May 24 - Tomás Masaryk re-elected president of Czechoslovakia
May 28 - Near Callender, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
June 6 - New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act into law, establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission.
June 9 - Release of the animated short The Wise Little Hen, directed by Bert Gillett for the Silly Symphonies series, featuring the debut of Donald Duck.
June 12 - Political parties banned in Bulgaria
June 27 - Emir of Yemen and ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia form a peace treaty
June 30 - The Nazi SA camp Oranienburg becomes national camp, taken over by the SS.
June 30 - Night of the Long Knives - Nazis purge the SA

July 10 - German social democrat and author Erich Mühsam killed in Otanienurg concentration camp
July 19 - Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (1980; died in office).
July 22 - Outside Chicago, Illinois's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
July 25 - Austrians Nazis assassinate chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss during a failed coup attempt.
August 2 - Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany, becoming head of state as well as Chancellor.
August 19 - The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
September 8 - Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner Morro Castle kills 134 people.
September 19 - Soviet Union joins the League of Nations
September 21 - Hurricane in Honshu, Japan - 4000 dead
November 27 - A running gun battle between FBI agents and bank robber Baby Face Nelson results in the death of one FBI agent and the mortal wounding of special agent Sam Cowley, who is still able to mortally shoot Nelson.
September 28 - Afghanistan joins the League of Nations
September 28 - Trial for the custody of young Gloria Vanderbilt begins - it lasts seven weeks and ends with a compromise

October 2 - Tornado in Osaka and Kyoto and destroys the rice harvest - 1660 dead, 5400 injured
October 6 - Catalonian separatists rebel
October 9 - King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French foreign minister Louis Barthou are assassinated during the king's state visit in Marseilles
October 16 - The Long March of Chinese communists begins
November 13 - Italian government decrees that teachers must use a military or party uniform in a class
November 21 - MCC makes an ultimately controversial decision to alter the lbw rule so a batsman can be lbw to a ball pitching outside off stump. The change is later blamed for many problems developing during the 1950s - primarily negative bowling outside leg stump to a field of short-leg fieldsmen.
December 1 - In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad by Leonid Nikolayev (it is widely thought that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered this murder).
December 14 - Female suffrage in Turkey
December 18 - Low-key fascist conference in Moreaux
December 27 - Persia becomes Iran
December 29 - Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.