1934
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| Centuries: | 19th century - 20th century - 21st century |
| Decades: | 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s |
| Years: | 1931 1932 1933 - 1934 - 1935 1936 1937 |
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[change] Events
- January 1 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison.
- January 1 - Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring."
- January 7 - First Flash Gordon comic strip is published.
- January 10 - Execution of Marinus van der Lubbe
- January 24 - Albert Einstein visits the 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 12 to February 16 - Austrian Civil War
- February 23 - Léopold III becomes King of Belgium.
- March 1 - Manchuria becomes Manchukuo
- March 3 - John Dillinger escapes from jail in Crown Point, Indiana, using a wooden pistol
- 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 - Clyde Barrow and Henry Methvin kill two young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.
- April 6 - Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.
- April 19 - Surgeon R.K. Wilson allegedly takes a photograph of the Loch Ness Monster.
- April 22 - John Dillinger and two others shoot their way out of the FBI ambush in northern Wisconsin
[change] Births
- January 20 - Tom Baker
- February 10 - Barrie Ingham, English actor
- May 28 - Dionne Quintuplets
- July 1 - Jamie Farr
- November 9 - Carl Sagan
- November 13 - Garry Marshall
[change] Deaths
- January 10 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting fire to the Reichstag (executed) (born 1909)
- January 29 - Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1868)
- February 17 - Albert I of Belgium (born 1875)
- February 23 - Edward Elgar, English composer (born 1857)
- March 29 - Otto Hermann Kahn, German-born millionaire philanthropist (born 1867)
- May 23 - Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (shot) (born 1909)
- May 23 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (shot) (born 1910)
- May 25 - Gustav Holst, English composer (born 1874)
- May 30 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (born 1848)
- June 10 - Frederick Delius, English composer (born 1862)
- June 11 - Lev Vygotsky, Russian developmental psychologist (born 1896)
- July 4 - Maria Skłodowska-Curie, Polish-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and physics (born 1867)
- July 8 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (born 1848)
- July 22 - John Dillinger, American criminal (born 1903)
- July 25 - François Coty, French perfume manufacturer (born 1874)
- July 25 - Englebert Dolfuss, Chancellor of Austria (assassinated) (born 1892)
- July 25 - Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist (born 1889)
- July 26 - Winsor McCay, American comic creator and animator (born 1871)
- July 28 - Marie Dressler, Canadian actress (born 1868)
- August 2 - Paul von Hindenburg, German general and politician (born 1847)
- September 2 - Alcide Nunez, American musician (born 1884)
- November 2 - Edmond James de Rothschild, French philanthropist (born 1845)
- November 16 - Alice Liddell, inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (born 1852)
- December 1 - Sergei Kirov, Soviet leader (born 1886)
[change] Films released
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