Historical Events in 1934

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• Jan 1 20th Rose Bowl: Columbia beats Stanford, 7-0
• Jan 1 Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison
• Jan 1 Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (US bank guarantor) effective

• Jan 1 International Telecommunication Union established
• Jan 1 Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring".
• Jan 2 1st state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania
• Jan 4 1st Dutch talkie movie, Jan Teunissen's "Willem of Orange" premieres
• Jan 5 Boston's Fenway Park catches fire for 2nd time (May 8th 1926 also)
• Jan 5 National & American baseball leagues select a uniform ball
• Jan 7 "Flash Gordon" comic strip created and drawn by Alex Raymond debuts
• Jan 8 Jaap Speyers "Bluejackets" premieres in Amsterdam
• Jan 13 The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR
• Jan 15 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die

• Jan 17 Electric Home & Farm Authority incorporated

• Jan 20 Japan sends Henry Pu Yi as regent to emperor of Manchuria
• Jan 21 Parisian baker and "student of medieval life" Henri Littière appears in court charged with forcing his adulterous wife Juliette to wear a chastity belt. Having committed the same offence in 1932, he was sentenced to three months in prison and fined 50 francs for cruelty to his wife

• Jan 23 New York Rangers' left wing Murray Murdoch plays his 400th straight NHL game in a 5-2 win over Ottawa Senators at Madison Square Garden, NYC; streak reaches 508 consecutive games
• Jan 24 Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" is performed in Moscow; roundly criticized by the Communist Party, it was banned in the Soviet Union until 1961

• Jan 26 Nazi Germany & Poland sign 10-year non-aggression treaty
• Jan 26 The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.

• Jan 27 Australian Championships Women's Tennis, Sydney: Joan Hartigan Bathurst retains title; beats Margaret Molesworth 6-1, 6-4
• Jan 27 French government of Chautemps falls (Stavisky Affair)
• Jan 27 VARA refuses to hire after commemoration of Marinus Van de Lubbe
• Jan 28 1st US ski tow (rope) begins operation (Woodstock, Vermont)
• Jan 30 1st theatrical presentation sponsored by US government, NYC

• Jan 30 Former Australian cricket spin bowler Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 years 298 days as Victoria draws with NSW at the Sydney Cricket Ground

• Feb 1 Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his own right-wing Fatherland Front (Vaterländische Front)
• Feb 2 Dutch RC Bishops warn against fascism and Nazism
• Feb 6 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
• Feb 6 Reds purchase 43-year-old Dazzy Vance from the Cards for $7,500
• Feb 7 1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo, Miss
• Feb 8 Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington, D.C.
• Feb 8 Gaston Doumergue forms new French government
• Feb 9 -14.3°F (-25.7°C), coldest day in New York City
• Feb 9 -51°F (-46°C), Vanderbilt, Michigan (state record)
• Feb 9 Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey & Romania)
• Feb 10 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine
• Feb 10 Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; 1st unperforated ungummed US stamp

• Feb 12 Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss government bans Social Democrat party
• Feb 12 Export-Import Bank incorporates
• Feb 12 France hit by a general strike against fascists & royalists
• Feb 12 The four-day February Uprising, sometimes called the Austrian Civil War, begins.
• Feb 13 The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.
• Feb 14 NHL Ace Bailey Benefit Game: Toronto beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto
• Feb 16 Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund
• Feb 16 Commission of Government is sworn in as form of direct rule for the Dominion of Newfoundland
• Feb 17 1st high school auto driving course offered (State College, Pennsylvania)
• Feb 19 US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 months
• Feb 20 Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein's opera "Four Saints in Three Acts" opens on Broadway at the 44th Street Theatre, NYC
• Feb 21 Nicaraguan patriot Augusto César Sandino and three others kidnapped and assassinated by the National Guard in Larreynaga

• Feb 23 Coronation of King Leopold III of Belgium
• Mar 1 Henry Pu Yi crowned Emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria

• Mar 2 Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha
• Mar 3 John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol
• Mar 4 Easter Cross on Mt. Davidson (San Francisco) dedicated
• Mar 5 Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo, Texas)
• Mar 6 Sidney Howard & Paul de Kruif's "Yellowjacket" premieres in NYC

• Mar 10 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history ends - 18 games with 15 wins, 3 ties
• Mar 10 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Suzanne Davis
• Mar 12 Acting President Constantine Päts commits coup in Tallinn, Estonia

• Mar 15 US Information Service opens

• Mar 16 Academy Award gold statuette 1st called Oscar in print by Sidney Skolsky
• Mar 16 US Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act

• Mar 17 England beats Scotland, 6-3 at Twickenham, London to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship and Triple Crown

• Mar 20 Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar in Kiel Germany
• Mar 21 Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500
• Mar 22 Fire destroys Hakodate, Japan, kills 1,500, injures 1,000
• Mar 23 93rd Grand National: Gerry Wilson wins aboard 8/1 Golden Miller in race record 9:20.04; becomes only horse to win both UK's premier steeplechases with Cheltenham Gold Cup victory 1934
• Mar 24 Dmitri Shostakovich's Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1 premieres in Leningrad, USSR
• Mar 24 U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, declaring the Philippines independent after a period of 10 years

• Mar 26 Driving tests introduced in Britain
• Mar 29 Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist workers' movement bankrupt
• Mar 31 Netherlands Indies BC Ltd begins radio transmission (Indonesia)

• Apr 5 Baseball superstar Babe Ruth agrees to do three 15-minute broadcasts a week over NBC for a fee of $39,000 for 13 weeks; $4,000 more than his NY Yankees playing contract
• Apr 6 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany

• Apr 10 Stanley Cup Final, Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL: Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 1-0 in double OT for a 3-1 series win; Black Hawks' first Stanley Cup
• Apr 12 Second highest ever wind speed of 372 km/h (231 mph) recorded on Mt Washington
• Apr 12 The US Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
• Apr 13 4.7 million US families report receiving welfare payments
• Apr 13 US Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act
• Apr 16 38th Boston Marathon won by Dave Komonen of Canada in 2:32:53.8
• Apr 17 Fenway Park in Boston re-opens after a major renovation including a hand-operated electronic scoreboard, though it didn't help the Red Sox who lost to the Washington Senators 6-5
• Apr 18 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Fort Worth, Texas)

• Apr 21 Moe Berg, Senators catcher, plays AL record 117th cons errorless game

• Apr 28 Soccer team Blue White '34 forms
• Apr 28 Spanish government of Ricardo Samper forms
• Apr 28 Tigers' Goose Goslin grounds into 4 straight double plays
• Apr 28 US President FDR signs Home Owners Loan Act
• Apr 29 Pittsburgh is last major league city to play a home game on a Sunday
• Apr 30 Austria gets "Austrian fascist" constitution
• May 1 Austria signs pact with Vatican
• May 1 Philippine legislature accepts US proposal for independence
• May 1 Water state kingdom dismisses NSB-leader Anton Mussert
• May 2 Nazi Germany begins People's Court
• May 5 60th Kentucky Derby: Mack Garner aboard Cavalcade wins in 2:04

• May 7 Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region
• May 7 Princess Juliana of the Netherlands opens Juliana Canal between Maastricht and Maasbracht
• May 7 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley for his play "Men in White"
• May 7 World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines

• May 12 59th Preakness: Robert Jones aboard High Quest wins in 1:58.2
• May 13 Great dustbowl storm sweeps across US prairies
• May 15 Karlis Ulmanis names himself fascist dictator of Latvia
• May 15 US Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive
• May 18 Trans-Word Airlines (TWA) begins commercial service
• May 19 Military coup by Colonel Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria
• May 19 Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Saturday Review of Literature"; males who solved puzzle became members of Baker Street Irregulars [1]
• May 21 Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes first US city to fingerprint its citizens

• May 23 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 24 Colombia & Peru sign accord about harbor city Leticia

• May 26 Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago

• May 28 Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy
• May 28 The Glyndebourne festival in Sussex, England, inaugurated
• May 30 Indianapolis 500: Indianapolis native Bill Cummings accompanied by riding mechanic Earl Unversaw wins race where only 12 of 33 entrants finish
• May 31 The Barmen Declaration is published by a group of church leaders in Germany including Karl Barth to help Christians withstand the challenges of the Nazi party

• Jun 2 French Championships Men's Tennis: Gottfried von Cramm of Germany wins 1st of 2 French titles; beats Australian Jack Crawford 6-4, 7-9, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3

• Jun 5 1st formal meeting of Baker Street Irregulars (NYC)
• Jun 6 Securities & Exchange Commission established
• Jun 6 Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game
• Jun 9 1st appearance of Donald Duck in a cartoon, "The Wise Little Hen"
• Jun 9 66th Belmont: Wayne D Wright aboard Peace Chance wins in 2:29.2

• Jun 10 FIFA World Cup Final, Stadio Nazionale PNF, Rome, Italy: Angelo Schiavio scores the winner in extra time as Italy beats Czechoslovakia, 2-1
• Jun 10 USSR & Romania re-establish diplomatic relations
• Jun 11 Disarmament conference in Geneva fails

• Jun 14 American boxer Max Baer KO's defending champion Primo Carnera of Italy in 11th round at Madison Square Garden for the lineal world heavyweight title
• Jun 14 European despots Adolf Hitler, of Germany, and Benito Mussolini, of Italy, meet in Vienna, Austria
• Jun 14 WOQ-AM in Kansas City Missouri goes off the air
• Jun 15 Great Smokey Mountains National Park on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee is dedicated
• Jun 18 US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized
• Jun 19 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created
• Jun 22 John Dillinger is informally named America's first Public Enemy Number One
• Jun 25 Hedley Verity takes 15 wickets for England v Australia (7-61 & 8-43)
• Jun 25 NY Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times

• Jun 25 Previously unknown Winchester Manuscript of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" (1485) announced discovered in the library of Winchester College, England
• Jun 26 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions
• Jun 26 Germany & Poland sign non-aggression treaty

• Jun 27 Federal Savings & Loan Association created
• Jun 28 Adolf Hitler flies to Essen, Germany for "Night of Long Knives"
• Jun 29 British Open Men's Golf, Royal St. George's GC: Henry Cotton of England wins wire-to-wire by 5 shots from South African Sid Brews
• Jun 30 "Night of Long Knives" - Adolf Hitler stages a bloody purge of the Nazi party
• Jun 30 Detroit radio executive George Richards pays $7,952.08 to buy NFL's Portsmouth Spartans; moves team to Detroit and rebrands it to 'Lions'
• Jun 30 French Equatorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit
• Jul 1 1st x-ray photo of entire body, taken by Arthur Fuchs of Eastman-Kodak Company in Rochester, New York
• Jul 1 Brookfield Zoo opens in Chicago, Illinois
• Jul 2 General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico
• Jul 3 FDIC pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria, Illinois

• Jul 4 Jordanians revolt in Amsterdam after reduction in employment
• Jul 5 "Bloody Thursday" - Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco
• Jul 5 Lou Gehrig hits record 17th career grand slam in Yankees 8-3 win v Washington, passes Babe Ruth's total

• Jul 6 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Home favourite Fred Perry beats Australian Jack Crawford 6-3, 6-0, 7-5 for the first of 3 straight Wimbledon titles
• Jul 7 Mary Hirsch, daughter of 3-time Kentucky Derby winning trainer Max Hirsch, becomes first woman to be licensed to train thoroughbred horses in the United States
• Jul 7 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Dorothy Round Little of England beats American Helen Jacobs 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 for her first Wimbledon singles title
• Jul 9 SS-Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps
• Jul 10 1st sitting US President to visit South America, FDR in Colombia
• Jul 10 2nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-7 at Polo Grounds, NYC
• Jul 10 NL pitcher Carl Hubbell strikes out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons and Joe Cronin for MLB All Star game record for consecutive strikeouts; AL still win, 9-7
• Jul 11 FDR became 1st US President to travel through Panama Canal
• Jul 12 US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned
• Jul 12 Willy de Supervise swims world record 400m (5:16.0)
• Jul 13 Babe Ruth hits 700th career home run against Detroit

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