1934 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1934?
- January 26, 1934 – German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
- February 2, 1934 – The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
- February 9, 1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed.
- February 12, 1934 – The Austrian Civil War begins.
- 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 strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
- June 15, 1934 – The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
- July 2, 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
- July 5, 1934 – “Bloody Thursday” – Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
- 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.
- 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 1, 1934 – SMJK Sam Tet is founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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