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May 9 – 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: A general strike is engaged in San Francisco. May 11 – Dust Bowl: A strong 2-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl. The United States Department of Justice offers a $25,000 reward for John Dillinger.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1934. 1934 (MCMXXXIV) 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.
January 5, 1934 (Friday) A huge fire broke out at Fenway Park in Boston, doing $220,000 in damage. [13] The British cargo ship Paris ran aground in the Tsugaru Strait in Japan near Omasake. [14] The drama film Eight Girls in a Boat was released.
Will keep it until 1946. 1930 - Hawley-Smoot Tariff. 1930 - Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto. 1930 - Sinclair Lewis is the first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature. 1931 – Empire State Building opens in New York. 1931 – Japanese invasion of Manchuria, start of World War II in the Pacific.
At least 162 injured. One mill guard death. 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 ...
The 1934 United States elections were held on November 6, 1934. The election took place in the middle of Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt 's first term, during the Great Depression. In a historic midterm election, the Democrats built on the majorities in both houses of Congress they had won in the previous two elections.
September 24, 1934 (Monday) The Detroit Tigers won the American League pennant, their first in 25 years, when the New York Yankees were eliminated by losing to the Boston Red Sox 5–0. The game also proved to be Babe Ruth 's last at Yankee Stadium; he drew a walk in the first inning and was replaced by a pinch-runner.
The 1934 California gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1934. Held in the midst of the Great Depression, the 1934 election was amongst the most controversial in the state's political history, pitting conservative Republican Frank Merriam against former Socialist Party member turned Democratic politician Upton Sinclair, author of The ...