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.
- February 12, 1934 – In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista decides to merge the movement with the Falange Española.
- 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.
- March 26, 1934 – The driving test is introduced in the United Kingdom.
- 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 19, 1934 – Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
- 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.
- July 2, 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
- July 25, 1934 – The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
- 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 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.
- 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 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.
- November 27, 1934 – Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
- December 1, 1934 – In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolayev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad.
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