January 1934 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Jan 15 While robbing the First National Bank in East Chicago, Indianapolis, John Dillinger is shot several times by officer William O'Malley, but survives because he is wearing a bullet proof vest.

Jan 17 Electric Home & Farm Authority incorporated

Event of Interest

Jan 18 Eugene O'Neill's "Days Without End" premieres in NYC

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

Event of Interest

Jan 30 Adolf Hitler's proclamation on German unified states

Event of Interest

Jan 31 FDR devalues US dollar in relation to gold at $35 per ounce

Birthdays in History

Jan 3 Carla Hills, American lawyer and politician (Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1975-77), born in Los Angeles, California
Jan 4 Rudolf Schuster, President of Slovakia
Jan 6 Harry M. Miller, Australian entrepreneur, born in Auckland, New Zealand (d. 2018)
Jan 6 Tassos Papadopoulos, Cypriot politician & barrister (President, 2003–2008), born in Nicosia, Cyprus (d. 2008)
Jan 7 Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (d. 2002)
Jan 8 Alexandra Ripley, American writer, born in Charleston, South Carolina (d. 2004)
Jan 8 Piet Dankert, Dutch politician (PvdA), born in Stiens, Netherlands (d. 2003)
Jan 10 Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician and 1st President of Ukraine (1991-94), born in Żytyń, Poland (now Ukraine)

Jean Chretien (89 years old)

Jan 11 20th Prime Minister of Canada (Liberal: 1993-2003), born in Shawinigan, Quebec

Jan 11 Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, Computer scientist
Jan 16 William Vollie Alexander Jr., American politician (Rep-D-AR, 1969-93), born in Memphis, Tennessee
Jan 22 Graham Kerr, English-born chef (Galloping Gourmet), born in London, England
Jan 23 Pierre Bourgault, Quebec politician & essayist, born in East Angus, Canada (d. 2003)
Jan 24 Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish poet, born in Leszno, Poland (d. 1976)
Jan 26 Roger Landry, Quebec businessman and newspaper publisher
Jan 27 Donald Spiers, controller (Aircraft MoD)
Jan 27 Edithe Cresson, premier of France (1991-92)
Jan 27 Federico Mayor Zaragoza, UNESCO director (1987- ), born in Barcelona, Spain
Jan 27 Julian Ogilvie Thompson, CEO (De Beers)
Jan 27 Raymond Boudon, French sociologist, born in Paris, France (d. 2013)
Jan 28 BR White, principal (Regent's Park College-Oxford)

Weddings in History

Jan 7 Dutch Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld

Salvador Dali

Jan 30 Painter Salvador Dali (30) weds Gala Dali (39) in a civil ceremony in Paris

Deaths in History

Jan 1 Jakob Wassermann, German writer and novelist (My Life as German and Jew), dies of a heart attack at 60
Jan 8 Alexandre Stavisky, French swindler, dies
Jan 8 Andrei Bely [Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev], Russian writer (Petersburg), dies at 53

Marinus van der Lubbe (1909-1934)

Jan 10 Dutch communist, beheaded by the Nazis for setting fire to the German Reichstag at 24

Jan 12 Surya Sen "Master Da", Indian activist for independence (Chittagong armoury raid), hanged at 39
Jan 13 Jean-Baptiste Marchand, soldier/explorer (Sudan), dies at 70
Jan 13 Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist who discovered gamma rays, dies at 73
Jan 15 Patrick O'Malley, US policeman, killed by John Dillinger
Jan 29 Fritz Haber, German physicist and chemist (Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1918 for process to synthesize ammonia), dies at 65
Jan 30 Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (founder of Doubleday & Co), dies at 72