1934 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1934?
- January 1, 1934 – Alcatraz Island becomes a United States federal prison.
- 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 6, 1934 – Far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
- 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.
- February 16, 1934 – The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund.
- 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.
- 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 15, 1934 – The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
- June 19, 1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States’ Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
- July 2, 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
- August 2, 1934 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
- August 3, 1934 – Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.
- 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.
- 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.
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