1934 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1934?
- January 1, 1934 – Alcatraz Island becomes a United States federal prison.
- January 26, 1934 – German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
- January 28, 1934 – The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont.
- February 9, 1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed.
- February 14, 1934 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dog in Chinese astrology.
- March 12, 1934 – Konstantin Päts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties.
- April 12, 1934 – The U.S. Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
- April 21, 1934 – The “Surgeon’s Photograph”, the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
- May 15, 1934 – Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
- May 28, 1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
- August 3, 1934 – Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.
- August 19, 1934 – The creation of the position Führer is approved by the German electorate with 89.9% of the popular vote.
- September 19, 1934 – Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr.
- September 21, 1934 – A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing 3,036 people.
- October 15, 1934 – The Soviet Republic of China collapses when Chiang Kai-shek’s National Revolutionary Army successfully encircles Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.
- November 6, 1934 – Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.
- November 27, 1934 – Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
- November 30, 1934 – The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.
- December 5, 1934 – Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
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