1934 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1934?
- January 13, 1934 – The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR.
- January 20, 1934 – Fujifilm, the photographic and electronics company, is founded in Tokyo, Japan.
- February 2, 1934 – The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
- February 9, 1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed.
- February 13, 1934 – The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
- February 14, 1934 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dog in Chinese astrology.
- February 23, 1934 – Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
- 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 19, 1934 – Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
- June 6, 1934 – New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
- June 30, 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler’s violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
- July 5, 1934 – “Bloody Thursday” – Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
- July 20, 1934 – Labor unrest in the U.S.: as police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
- August 22, 1934 – Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
- 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.
- October 16, 1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
- November 11, 1934 – The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
- November 30, 1934 – The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.
- December 29, 1934 – Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
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