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1934 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1934th ... (Extreme), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people. [2] ...
The world-famous Brookfield Zoo opens in Brookfield, Illinois. The Hays Office censorship code for motion pictures goes into full effect. July 5 – 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: Police in San Francisco open fire on a crowd of striking longshoremen, killing two.
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12 March – An intense cyclone crosses the Queensland coast near Innisfail, 75 people were confirmed dead. 21 March to 14 June – The Australian Eastern Mission , led by deputy prime minister John Latham , visited a number of countries in East Asia and South-East Asia, the first Australian diplomatic mission outside the British Empire.
In 1934, a photographer from the Toronto Star, Fred Davis signed a contract stating that the $10,000 (equivalent to $218,194 in 2023) the Newspaper Enterprise Association put into the trust fund disallows anyone else from photographing the quintuplets for a year, including their parents. Each newsreel that Pathé News made meant that a deposit ...
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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 ...
Approximately 150 people were killed in a dynamite explosion in the port of La Libertad, El Salvador. The explosion started a fire that burned down four blocks of buildings. [21] The historical biographical film The House of Rothschild had its world premiere at the Astor Theatre in New York City. [22]