1934 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1934?
- January 13, 1934 – The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR.
- February 9, 1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed.
- February 12, 1934 – In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista decides to merge the movement with the Falange Española.
- 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.
- March 26, 1934 – The driving test is introduced in the United Kingdom.
- April 12, 1934 – The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
- May 19, 1934 – Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
- May 23, 1934 – The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the “Battle of Toledo”, a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
- June 13, 1934 – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as “a silly little monkey”.
- June 30, 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler’s violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
- July 20, 1934 – 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
- July 22, 1934 – Outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, “Public Enemy No. 1” John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
- September 18, 1934 – The USSR is admitted to League of Nations.
- September 26, 1934 – Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
- October 9, 1934 – Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
- October 22, 1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
- November 11, 1934 – The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
- November 23, 1934 – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
- December 29, 1934 – Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
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