1934

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s

Years: 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 - 1934 - 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939

• January 1 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison
• January 26 - The Apollo Theatre[?] opens in Harlem, New York City.
• February 12 - The Export-Import Bank[?] is incorporated.
• February 23 - Leopold III becomes King of Belgium
• April 1 - Bonnie and Clyde kill two young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.
• 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 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 28 - Near Callender, Ontario[?], the Dionne quintuplets[?] are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
• August 2 - Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
• December 29 - Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

• Discovery of the sonoluminescence effect.
• First Flash Gordon comic strip published
• First Jay Gordon[?] record

Art, Culture & Fashion

• 1934 in film
  • January 26 - Samuel Goldwyn[?] (of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) finally purchased the film rights to The Wizard of Oz from Frank J. Baum[?] for $40,000.00.
  • It Happened One Night
  • Cleopatra
  • The Thin Man
• 1934 in literature
• 1934 in music
• 1934 in sports[?]
• July 4 - Boxer Joe Louis wins his first professional boxing match.
  • Italy wins Football World Cup on home ground.
  • British Empire Games held in London, United Kingdom.
  • December 29 - The first college basketball game is played, between Notre Dame University[?] and New York University at Madison Square Garden in New York City
• 1934 in television
  • December - Philo Farnsworth demonstrates a non mechanical television system

Births

• January 8 - Bart Starr[?], American football star
• January 11 - Jean Chrétien, Prime Minister of Canada
• January 22 - Bill Bixby, television actor (+ 1993)
• February 5 - Hank Aaron, Baseball Hall of Famer
• February 11 - Francesco Pennisi[?], composer.
• February 11 - John Surtees, British race car driver.
• February 11 - Patrick Holmes Sellors[?], ophthalmologist.
• February 11 - Mary Quant, fashion designer.
• February 11 - Tina Louise[?], actress.
• February 12 - Bill Russell[?], basketball star
• February 13 - George Segal[?], actor
• February 14 - Florence Henderson, actress
• February 17 - Alan Bates, actor
• February 17 - Barry Humphries[?] (aka "Dame Edna Everage"), actor, comedian
• February 18 - Paco Rabanne[?], fashion designer
• February 20 - Bobby Unser[?], automobile racer
• February 24 - Bettino Craxi[?], Prime Minister of Italy (+ 2000)
• February 27 - Ralph Nader, consumer activist
• March 4 - Janez Strnad, Slovene physicist.
• March 9 - Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut, first human in space (+ 1968)
• March 11 - Sam Donaldson[?], reporter
• March 16 - Ray Hnatyshyn, former Canadian Governor-General
• March 20 - Willie Brown[?], mayor of San Francisco, California
• March 22 - Orrin Hatch, politician (Senator from Utah)
• March 26 - Alan Arkin, actor
• March 31 - Shirley Jones, singer, actress
• April 2 - Brian Glover[?], British actor, wrestler (+ 1997)
• April 2 - Paul Joseph Cohen[?], mathematician.
• April 3 - Jane Goodall, zoologist
• April 26 - Alan Akrin[?], actor
• May 13 - Adolf Muschg[?], author
• May 14 - Siân Phillips, actress
• May 15 - Alvin F. Poussaint[?], physicist, psychiatrist, educator
• May 19 - James Lehrer[?], journalist, co-anchor
• May 22 - Peter Nero[?], musician
• May 23 - Dr. Robert Moog, inventor of Moog synthesizer
• May 28 - world's first surviving quintuplets, the Dionne quintuplets[?], born at Corbeil[?], Ontario, Canada
• May 30 - Aleksei Leonov, cosmonaut and first person to walk in space
• June 6 - Albert II of Belgium.
• July 13 - Aleksei Yeliseyev, cosmonaut
• July 15 - Harrison Birtwistle, composer
• August 2 - Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut
• August 18 - Roberto Clemente, Baseball Hall of Famer.
• September 17 - Maureen Connolly, tennis star (+ 1969)
• September 20 - Sophia Loren, Italian actress.
• November 9 - Carl Sagan, US astronomer.
• December 3- Viktor Gorbatko, cosmonaut
• December 18 - Boris Volynov, cosmonaut
• December 27 - Larissa Latynina, USSR gymnast.
• Harlan Ellison, US science-fiction writer.

Deaths

• February 17 - Albert I of Belgium.
• February 23 - Edward Elgar, composer
• May 25 - Gustav Holst, composer
• July 4 - Marie Sklodowska-Curie, co-discoverer of radium and polonium
• July 25 - Englebert Dolfuss, Austrian Chancellor, is assassinated.
• July 28 - Marie Dressler, Academy Award winning actress
• August 2 - Paul von Hindenburg, general and politician

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - not awarded.
• Chemistry - Harold Clayton Urey[?].
• Medicine - George Hoyt Whipple, George Richards Minot[?], William Parry Murphy[?].
• Literature - Luigi Pirandello.
• Peace - Arthur Henderson[?].