1934 - What happened in 1934 ?

January 1934

Monday 01:

Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring".

Friday 26:

The Apollo Theater opens in Harlem, New York City.

February 1934

Sunday 04:

Asteroid 2824 Franke discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth.

Monday 12:

1934 - The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.

Tuesday 13:

The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.

Friday 16:

Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund

Friday 23:

Léopold III becomes King of Belgium.

April 1934

Sunday 01:

Bonnie and Clyde kill two young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.

Saturday 07:

The U.S. Congress passes the Jones-Connally Farm-Relief Act.

Wednesday 18:

The first washateria opens in Fort Worth, Texas.

Thursday 19:

Shirley Temple debuts in Stand Up and Cheer.

May 1934

Friday 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 in North America.

Tuesday 15:

K?rlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.

Monday 21:

Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint each of its citizens.

Wednesday 23:

Near their hideout in Black Lake, Louisiana, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are ambushed and shot dead by police.

Monday 28:

The Glyndebourne festival in England is inaugurated.

June 1934

Wednesday 06:

New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Saturday 09:

Donald Duck debuts in The Wise Little Hen.

Friday 15:

The U.S.'s Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.

Tuesday 19:

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is established. The FCC regulates radio and television broadcasts. (see the Communications Act of 1934.)

Saturday 30:

The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.

July 1934

Wednesday 04:

Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.

Thursday 05:

Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.

Sunday 22:

Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.

Wednesday 25:

Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.

August 1934

Thursday 02:

Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.

Saturday 11:

Federal prison opened at Alcatraz Island

Sunday 19:

The creation of the position Führer approved by the German electorate with 89.9% of the popular vote.

September 1934

Saturday 08:

Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.

Wednesday 19:

Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the murder of Charles Lindbergh Junior.

Wednesday 26:

Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.

October 1934

Tuesday 16:

Chinese Communists under Mao Zedong begin their Long March

Sunday 21:

Mao Tse-tung and his followers begin the Long March.

Monday 22:

In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.

November 1934

Wednesday 07:

Premiere of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini at Baltimore, Maryland

Monday 12:

The musical Babes in Toyland debuts, featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as comic relief (see Laurel and Hardy).

Wednesday 21:

primarily negative bowling outside leg stump to a field of short-leg fieldsmen.

Tuesday 27:

Death of bank robber Baby Face Nelson in a gun battle with the FBI.

December 1934

Saturday 01:

In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad by Leonid Nikolayev.

Wednesday 05:

Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Ethiopia (it took four days to capture the city).

Tuesday 11:

A fire at the Hotel Kerns in Lansing, Michigan kills 34 people.

Saturday 29:

Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.