July 1934 in History

Events in History

Jul 4 Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb

Jul 4 Jordanians revolt in Amsterdam after reduction in employment
Jul 5 "Bloody Thursday" - Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco

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 11 FDR became 1st US President to travel through Panama Canal
Jul 12 US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned
Jul 14 116°F (47°C), Orogrande, New Mexico (state record, broken on June 27, 1994)
Jul 15 Continental Airlines commences operations.
Jul 20 118°F (48°C), Keokuk, Iowa (state record)
Jul 21 113°F (45°C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record)

Jul 22 Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents

Jul 3 Manfred Bieler, German writer (The Rabbit is Me), born in Zerbst, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (d. 2002)
Jul 7 Robert McNeill Alexander, British zoologist (estimated speed of dinosaurs, born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland (d. 2016)
Jul 8 Ed Lumley, Canadian corporate executive and former politician

Jul 9 American postmodernist architect and designer, born in Indianapolis, Indiana

Jul 11 Italian fashion designer (American Gigolo), born in Piacenza, Italy

Jul 13 Nigerian playwright and poet (Road, Kongi's Harvest-Nobel 1986), born in Abeokuta, near Ibadan, Nigeria

Jul 14 Leo Koury, American murderer (FBI Most Wanted List), born in Pittburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1991)
Jul 14 Trevor Fancutt, South African tennis player (Australian C'ships mixed doubles [Jan Lehane]), born in Kokstad, South Africa (d. 2022)
Jul 15 Simon Gournlay, president (British National Farmer's Union)
Jul 16 Donald Payne, New Jersey Congressman (1989-2012), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2012)
Jul 17 Lucio Tan, Chinese Filipino businessman (Philippine Airlines), in Amoy China
Jul 17 Rainer Kisch, German writer, born in Döbeln
Jul 19 Francisco Sá Carneiro, 109th Prime Minister of Portugal, born in Porto, Portugal (d. 1980)
Jul 20 Ralph C RInzler, folklorist (Greenbriar Boys)
Jul 20 Uwe Johnson, German writer
Jul 21 Edolphus Towns, American politician (Rep-D-New York, 1983-2013), born in Chadbourn, North Carolina
Jul 23 Nicholas Barrington, British high commissioner (Pakistan) and author (A passage to Nuristan: exploring the mysterious Afghan hinterland)
Jul 24 Sante Kimes, American convicted con artist and murderess
Jul 24 Thomas Ambler, CEO (Texaco)
Jul 27 John Pardoe, British businessman and CEO (Sight & Sound Education) and Liberal Party politician
Jul 28 Norman D. Shumway, American politician (Rep-R-California, 1979-91), born in Phoenix, Arizona

Jul 3 Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Prince consort of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1901-34), dies at 58
Jul 4 Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Jewish poet, dies at 61

Jul 4 Polish-French scientist who discovered radium and the 1st woman to win a Nobel Prize (1903, 1911), dies at 66

Jul 6 Edward Vermeulen, Flemish writer, dies at 73
Jul 8 Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer, dies at 86
Jul 12 Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American industrialist and inventor (outboard marine engine), dies at 57

Jul 13 New Zealand suffragette and the most prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage movement, dies at 87

Jul 15 Jules Renkin, Belgian politician (28th Prime Minister of Belgium 1931-32), dies at 71
Jul 16 Alaska P. Davidson, America's first female FBI agent, dies at 66

Jul 22 Notorious American bank robber, shot dead at 31 by federal agents at the Biograph Theater in Chicago

Jul 24 Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician, dies at 54
Jul 25 Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian Fascist chancellor, assassinated by Nazis at 41
Jul 25 François Coty, French perfume manufacturer, dies at 60
Jul 25 Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist Insurrectionary leader, dies at 45
Jul 26 Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (Little Nemo), dies at 63
Jul 27 Louis HG Lyautey, French minister of Defense (1916-17), dies at 79