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May 5 – The first Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, is released. 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. May 15.
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.
Progressive gain Farmer–Labor hold. 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 ...
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.
The 1934 West Coast waterfront strike (also known as the 1934 West Coast longshoremen's strike, as well as a number of variations on these names) lasted 83 days, and began on May 9, 1934, when longshoremen in every US West Coast port walked out. Organized by the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), the strike peaked with the death of ...
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-two days.
Jo Byrns. Democratic. The 1934 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives to elect members to serve in the 74th United States Congress. They were held for the most part on November 6, 1934, while Maine held theirs on September 10. They occurred in the middle of President ...
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.