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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.
American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge (1834–1837) The American Mercury (1924–1981) The American Museum (1787–1792) American Review (1967–1977) The American Review (1933–1937) The American Review: A Whig Journal (1845–1849) American Thunder (2004) The American Weekly (1896–1966) Amerika (1944–1994) Amiga World ...
August 5 – Wendell Berry, American poet, novelist and activist (died 2019) August 6. Piers Anthony, English-born science fiction and fantasy writer; Diane di Prima, American poet of the Beat Generation and artist (died 2020) August 16 – Diana Wynne Jones, English children's fantasy novelist (died 2011) [22] September 11 – Leon Rooke ...
On October 12, 1492, three Spanish ships under the command of Cristoforo Colombo (Christopher Columbus) landed on the Lucayan island of Guanahani which he names San Salvador (The Savior). On November 14, 1493, a Spanish fleet under the command of Columbus lands on a large inhabited island which he names Santa Cruz (Holy Cross, now Saint Croix).
The Oxford History of the United States book series originated in the 1950s with a plan laid out by historians C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter for a multivolume history of the United States published by Oxford University Press, modeled on the Oxford History of England, that would provide a summary of the political, social, and cultural history of the United States for a general ...
Everett Ruess (March 28, 1914 – c. November 1934) was an American artist, poet, and writer. He carried out solo explorations of the High Sierra, the California coast, and the deserts of the American Southwest. In 1934, he disappeared while traveling through a remote area of Utah; his fate remains unknown.
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1930s, as determined by Publishers Weekly. [1] The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1930 through 1939 . The standards set for inclusion in the lists – which, for example, led to the exclusion of the novels in the Harry Potter series from the lists for the ...