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1934 – Glass–Steagall Act; 1934 – U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission established; 1934 – Dust Bowl begins, causing major ecological and agricultural damage to the Great Plains states; severe drought, heat waves and other factors were contributors. 1934 – Federal Housing Administration; 1934 – Johnson Act; 1934 - Indian ...
1934 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1934th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 934th year of the 2nd millennium, the 34th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1930s decade.
A flood in Montrose, California killed at least 45 people. [1]The International Telecommunication Union was established.; The National Council for Civil Liberties was established in the UK by Ronald Kidd and Sylvia Crowther-Smith.
The "May Constitution" was proclaimed in Austria, making the country a one-party Austrofascist state.[1]Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg became Vice-Chancellor of Austria, replacing his bitter rival Emil Fey.
Mobs in Germany smashed the windows of the American-owned Woolworth department stores in reprisal for American boycotting of German goods. [ 8 ] Born: Monica Dacon , schoolteacher and politician, in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ; Daphne Sheldrick , author and conservationist, in Kenya (d. 2018)
The threatened American auto workers' strike was averted when the Roosevelt Administration created a National Automotive Labor Board to help resolve disputes. [31] Italian general elections were held in the form of a referendum on a single list of Fascist Party candidates.
The United States textile workers' strike of 1934, colloquially known later as The Uprising of '34 [4] [2] [1] was the largest textile strike in the labor history of the United States, involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states, lasting twenty-two days.