1934 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1934?
- January 1, 1934 – Alcatraz Island becomes a United States federal prison.
- January 20, 1934 – Fujifilm, the photographic and electronics company, is founded in Tokyo, Japan.
- January 26, 1934 – German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
- 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.
- May 23, 1934 – American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.
- June 9, 1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
- June 15, 1934 – The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
- 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.
- September 1, 1934 – SMJK Sam Tet is founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
- September 8, 1934 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.
- September 18, 1934 – The USSR is admitted to League of Nations.
- September 22, 1934 – An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers.
- September 26, 1934 – Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched.
- 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 22, 1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
- December 11, 1934 – Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time.
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