1934

Years: 1931 1932 1933 - 1934 - 1935 1936 1937
Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1934 in art 1934 in aviation 1934 in film 1934 in literature 1934 in music 1934 in radio 1934 in science 1934 in sports 1934 in television 1934 state leaders 1934 in Canada

Events

January 1 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison.
January 7 - First Flash Gordon comic strip is published.
January 10 - Execution of Marinus van der Lubbe
January 24 - Einstein visits White House
January 26 - The Apollo Theater opens in Harlem, New York City.
February 9 - Gaston Boumerque forms a new government in France
February 12 - The Export-Import Bank is incorporated.
February 23 - Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
March 1 - Manchuria becomes Manchukuo
March 8 - Prince Sigvard of Sweden loses his titles because of his marriage
March 20 - All the police forces in Germany come under command of Heinrich Himmler
April 1 - Bonnie and Clyde kill two young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.
April 19 - Surgeon R.K. Wilson allegedly takes a photograph of the Loch Ness Monster.

May 11 - Dust Bowl: A strong two-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl.
May 15 - The United States Department of Justice offers a $25,000 reward for John Dillinger.
May 15 - Karlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
May 23 - Near their hide-out in Black Lake, Louisiana, bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are ambushed and shot dead by Texas Rangers.
May 24 - Tomás Masaryk re-elected president of Czechoslovakia
May 28 - Near Callender, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
June 6 - New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act into law, establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission.
June 9 - Release of the animated short The Wise Little Hen, directed by Bert Gillett for the Silly Symphonies series, featuring the debut of Donald Duck.
June 12 - Political parties banned in Bulgaria
June 27 - Emir of Yemen and ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia form a peace treaty
June 30 - The Nazi SA camp Oranienburg becomes national camp, taken over by the SS.
June 30 - Night of the Long Knives - Nazis purge the SA

July 10 - German social democrat and author Erich Mühsam killed in Otanienurg concentration camp
July 19 - Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (1980; died in office).
July 22 - Outside Chicago, Illinois's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
July 25 - Austrians Nazis assassinate chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss during a failed coup attempt.
August 2 - Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany, becoming head of state as well as Chancellor.
August 19 - The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
September 8 - Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner Morro Castle kills 134 people.
September 19 - Soviet Union joins the League of Nations
September 21 - Hurricane in Honshu, Japan - 4000 dead
November 27 - A running gun battle between FBI agents and bank robber Baby Face Nelson results in the death of one FBI agent and the mortal wounding of special agent Sam Cowley, who is still able to mortally shoot Nelson.
September 28 - Afghanistan joins the League of Nations
September 28 - Trial for the custody of young Gloria Vanderbilt begins - it lasts seven weeks and ends with a compromise

October 2 - Tornado in Osaka and Kyoto and destroys the rice harvest - 1660 dead, 5400 injured
October 6 - Catalonian separatists rebel
October 9 - King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French foreign minister Louis Barthou are assassinated during the king's state visit in Marseilles
October 16 - The Long March of Chinese communists begins
November 13 - Italian government decrees that teachers must use a military or party uniform in a class
December 1 - In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad by Leonid Nikolayev (it is widely thought that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered this murder).
December 14 - Female suffrage in Turkey
December 18 - Low-key fascist conference in Moreaux
December 27 - Persia becomes Iran
December 29 - Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.