Events Date 1934 | History by KabAstro

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Babe Ruth's Pay Cut

Jan 15 New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth, nearing end of illustrious career, signs a 1-year contract worth $35,000; represents a pay cut of $17,000 for "The Babe"

Dillinger Survives Bank Robbery

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

Carl Hubbell's $18,000 Contract

Jan 17 NY Giants reward NL MVP pitcher Carl Hubbell with a huge $18,000 contract

"Days Without End"

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

Jackson's Appeal Denied

Jan 19 MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis denies Joe Jackson's appeal for reinstatement into baseball; Jackson was banned after 1919 "Black Sox" World Series

1st MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis

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

Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

Jan 22 Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" debuts in Leningrad

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 and banned in the Soviet Union until 1961

Bradman's 128 in 96 Minutes

Jan 26 Australian cricket batting icon Don Bradman scores 128 in just 96 minutes for NSW v Victoria in Sydney; smashes 17 x fours, 4 x sixes

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

Hitler on German Unified States

Jan 30 Adolf Hitler's proclamation on German unified states

FDR Devalues Dollar

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

Feb 1 Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his own right-wing Fatherland Front (Vaterländische Front)
Feb 2 Dutch Roman Catholic 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 MLB Cincinnati Reds purchase contract of 43-year-old pitcher Dazzy Vance from St. Louis Cardinals for $7,500
Feb 7 1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo, Mississippi
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

Merry Mount

Feb 10 Howard Hanson's opera "Merry Mount" premieres in NYC

Feb 12 Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss government bans Social Democrat party
Feb 12 Export-Import Bank of the United States forms
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

It Happened One Night

Feb 22 "It Happened One Night" directed by Frank Capra and starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert opens at NY's Radio City Music Hall (Academy Awards Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay 1935)

In Search of Sheba

Feb 22 André Malraux and Édouard Corniglion-Molinier set out to find the lost capital of the Queen of Sheba, as mentioned in the Old Testament

Baseball History

Feb 23 Casey Stengel becomes manager of Brooklyn Dodgers

Baseball Hall of Fame Manager Casey Stengel

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

Carnera vs Loughran

Mar 1 Italian boxer Primo Carnera beats American challenger Tommy Loughran by unanimous points decision at Madison Square Garden, NYC for the NYSAC and NBA heavyweight titles

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

Hubble's Galaxy Photo

Mar 8 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars

Mar 10 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history ends - 18 games with 15 wins, 3 ties
Mar 12 Acting President Constantine Päts commits coup in Tallinn, Estonia

Tito Freed

Mar 12 Communist revolutionary Josip Broz Tito freed from jail

President of Yugoslavia and Revolutionary Josip Broz Tito

Mathis der Maler

Mar 12 Paul Hindemith's symphony "Mathis der Maler" premieres in Berlin

Mar 15 US Information Service opens

6th Academy Awards

Mar 16 6th Academy Awards: "Cavalcade" and its director Frank Lloyd, Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII), and Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory) win; host Will Rogers announces "Come and get it, Frank" and Frank Capra gets up

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

Protocols of Rome

Mar 17 Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, and Hungarian Prime Minister Gyula Gömbös sign Donau Pact (Protocols of Rome) guaranteeing Austrian independence

Didrikson Zaharias's Hitless Inning

Mar 20 American all-round female super athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias pitches a hitless inning for Philadelphia A's in their exhibition pre-season baseball game against Brooklyn Dodgers

All-Round Athlete and Golfer Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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 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

1st Augusta National Invitation

Mar 25 1st Augusta National Invitation Tournament (Masters) Golf: Horton Smith wins with 20-foot birdie putt at the 17th hole, 1 stroke ahead of Craig Wood

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)

Bonnie and Clyde Murder

Apr 1 Clyde Barrow kills two young highway patrolmen, H. D. Murphy and Edward Bryant Wheeler, at the intersection of Route 114 near Grapevine, Texas. Bonnie Parker's role in the murders helps turn public perception against the gang for good

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

Gandhi Ends Civil Disobedience

Apr 7 In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspends his campaign of civil disobedience

Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi

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 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

Hitler Appoints Ribbentrop

Apr 18 Adolf Hitler names Joachim von Ribbentrop ambassador for disarmament

Foreign Minister of the German Reich Joachim von Ribbentrop

Apr 18 C.A. Tannahill opens 1st US "Washateria" (laundromat) in Fort Worth, Texas; four electric washing machines available for hourly rental - no dryers were available

Shirley Temple's 1st Film

Apr 19 Shirley Temple appears in her 1st feature length film, "Stand Up & Cheer"

Himmler Chief of Police

Apr 20 Heinrich Himmler appointed chief of all German police including the Prussian secret state police

Leading Nazi and Reichsführer of the SS Heinrich Himmler

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

Little Bohemia Lodge Raid

Apr 22 US Division of Investigation (later the FBI) under Melvin Purvis botch an operation to capture the John Dillinger Gang at Little Bohemia Lodge, Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin, with 2 dead and 4 injured

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 baseball city to play a home game on a Sunday, as the Pirates host the Cincinnati Reds
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

Red Sox's Record Inning

May 6 Red Sox score 12 runs in 4th inning including record 4 consecutive triples hit by Carl Reynolds, Moose Solters, Rick Ferrell, & B Walters

May 7 Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region

Juliana Canal

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 11 Great dust bowl storm sweeps across the American and Canadian prairies traveling as far as the East Coast

Cocktails For Two

May 12 "Cocktails For Two" by Duke Ellington hits #1

Jazz Musician and Composer Duke Ellington

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

Bonnie and Clyde Killed

May 23 American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow - Bonnie and Clyde, are killed by police in an ambush near Sailes, Louisiana

FBI photo of the car carrying Bonnie and Clyde after the shootout

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

Cantata Profana

May 25 Béla Bartók's "Cantata Profana - The Nine Enchanted Stags" premieres in London, England, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Wireless Chorus conducted by Aylmer Buesst

May 26 Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago

Hobbs Last 1st Class Century

May 28 Jack Hobbs scores his 197th (or 199th) and last 1st class cricket century at 51 years and 163 days of age [1]

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 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

Frederick Banting Knighted

Jun 4 Dr Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted

Medical Scientist and Physician Frederick Banting

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 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

Boeing Empire Split

Jun 12 Black-McKeller Bill passes causes the break-up of William Boeing's empire into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] and United Airlines

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

Gehrig Beats White Sox

Jun 25 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits for the cycle beating White Sox 11-2

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

W.E.B. Du Bois Resigns

Jun 26 W.E.B. Du Bois resigns position at NAACP

Civil Rights Activist and Sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois

Jun 27 Federal Savings & Loan Association created
Jun 28 Adolf Hitler flies to Essen, Germany for "Night of Long Knives"
Jun 30 Adolf Hitler stages a bloody purge of the Nazi party in the "Night of the Long Knives"
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 reconstituted into a single French colony and 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

Atomic Chain-reaction Patented

Jul 4 Hungarian physicist Leó Szilárd 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 5 Lou Gehrig hits record 17th career grand slam in Yankees 8-3 win v Washington, passes Babe Ruth's total

Ryan Wins 12th Doubles Title

Jul 6 American doubles specialist Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbledon doubles title as she and Simone Mathieu of France defend their crown 6-3, 6-3 vs Dorothy Andrus & Sylvie Henrotin

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 12 Willy de Supervise swims world record 400m (5:16.0)
Jul 13 Babe Ruth hits 700th career home run against Detroit
Jul 14 116°F (47°C), Orogrande, New Mexico (state record, broken on June 27, 1994)
Jul 14 NY Times erroneously declares Babe Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time
Jul 14 Philadelphia Phillies score 11 runs in an inning, beating Cincinnati 18-0
Jul 15 Continental Airlines commences operations.
Jul 17 Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland
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 23 Australian cricket batting legend Don Bradman completes 304 in drawn 4th Test vs England at Leeds; 430 minutes, 43 x fours, 2 x sixes
Jul 24 1st ptarmigan hatched and reared in captivity, Ithaca, NY
Jul 25 Failed Nazi coup in Austria
Jul 27 French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms
Jul 28 118°F (48°C), Orofino, Idaho (state record)
Aug 1 US Amateur Golf Championship format is changed to a 6-day event with no 36-hole stroke-play qualifying, and 36-hole matches for semi-finals and final
Aug 2 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
Aug 2 Adolf Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of German armed forces
Aug 2 William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour
Aug 3 Adolf Hitler merges the offices of German Chancellor and President, declaring himself "Führer" (leader)