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Red Simpson, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2016) March 7. Gray Morrow, American comic book artist, book illustrator (d. 2001) Willard Scott, American television weather reporter (The Today Show) (d. 2021) March 9. Del Close, American actor, improviser, writer and teacher (d. 1999) Joyce Van Patten, American actress
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.
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 ...
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 plot planned to install retired Major General Smedley Butler as dictator of the United States.. The Business Plot, also called the Wall Street Putsch [1] and the White House Putsch, was a political conspiracy in 1933, in the United States, to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and install Smedley Butler as dictator.
Twenty-three-year-old American music student Isobel Lillian Steele was arrested in Berlin on suspicion of espionage. During her four months of captivity her case became a cause célèbre in the American media as the U.S. government worked to free her. [20] [21] Born: James Tenney, composer and musical theorist, in Silver City, New Mexico (d. 2006)
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...
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)