Events Date 1934 June | History by KabAstro

Scriven French Women's Champion

Jun 2 French Championship Women's Tennis: England's defending champion Margaret Scriven beats American Helen Jacobs 7-5, 4-6, 6-1

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

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 9 66th Belmont: Wayne D Wright aboard Peace Chance wins in 2:29.2

38th US Men's Open

Jun 9 US Open Men's Golf, Merion Cricket Club: Olin Dutra overcomes an 8-stroke deficit after 36 holes to win his second major title by 1 stroke from Gene Sarazen

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

Baer KO's Carnera

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

Hitler Meets Mussolini

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

Public Enemy Number One

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

Federal Credit Union Act

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 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 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