Important Historical Events of the year 1934, Year 1934 in History
List of 1934 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1934
What happened in the year 1934?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 1, 1934 | Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay becomes a United States federal prison. |
| January 1, 1934 | A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany. |
| January 15, 1934 | The 8.0 Mw Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people. |
| January 26, 1934 | The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City. |
| January 26, 1934 | German–Polish declaration of non-aggression is signed. |
| February 2, 1934 | The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated. |
| 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 between Greece, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Turkey. |
| February 16, 1934 | The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund. |
| February 21, 1934 | Augusto Sandino is executed. |
| February 23, 1934 | Leopold III becomes King of Belgium. |
| March 22, 1934 | The first Masters Tournament is held at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. |
| March 24, 1934 | The Tydings–McDuffie Act is passed by the United States Congress, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.[41] |
| March 26, 1934 | The United Kingdom driving test is introduced. |
| April 12, 1934 | The strongest surface wind gust in the world at the time of 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. It has since been surpassed. |
| April 12, 1934 | The U.S. Auto-Lite strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers. |
| April 21, 1934 | The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1994, 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 21, 1934 | Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens. |
| May 23, 1934 | American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. |
| May 23, 1934 | The Auto-Lite strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers. |
| May 28, 1934 | Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, 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 Exchange Act of 1934 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. |
| June 15, 1934 | The United States Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded. |
| June 19, 1934 | The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC). |
| June 26, 1934 | United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions. |
| June 30, 1934 | The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place. |
| July 2, 1934 | The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm. |
| July 5, 1934 | "Bloody Thursday": The police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco. |
| July 11, 1934 | Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off. |
| July 20, 1934 | Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven. |
| July 20, 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. |
| July 25, 1934 | The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt. |
| August 2, 1934 | Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg. |
| August 11, 1934 | The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island. |
| August 19, 1934 | The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio. |
| August 19, 1934 | The German referendum of 1934 approves Adolf Hitler's appointment as head of state with the title of Führer. |
| August 22, 1934 | Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only test cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes. |
| September 4, 1934 | Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in full. |
| September 8, 1934 | Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 137 people. |
| September 18, 1934 | The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations. |
| September 21, 1934 | A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than 3,000 people. |
| September 22, 1934 | The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers. |
| September 26, 1934 | The ocean liner RMS Queen Mary is launched. |
| October 9, 1934 | An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille. |
| October 16, 1934 | Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement. |
| October 22, 1934 | In East Liverpool, Ohio, FBI agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd. |
| November 11, 1934 | The Shrine of Remembrance is opened in Melbourne, Australia. |
| 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. |
| December 1, 1934 | Sergei Kirov is assassinated, paving way for the repressive Great Purge, and Vinnytsia massacre by General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin. |
| December 5, 1934 | Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city. |
| December 11, 1934 | Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time. |
| December 21, 1934 | Lieutenant Kijé, one of Sergei Prokofiev's best-known works, premiered. |
| December 29, 1934 | Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.[15] |