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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.
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.
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. [2] The Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring went into effect in Nazi Germany. [3]
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 ...
100,000 farmers paraded in Vienna in support of Chancellor Dollfuss. [3]Monarchist organizations were banned in Germany. [4]In Needham, Massachusetts, Abraham Faber and Murton and Irving Millen, who had committed multiple robberies in Massachusetts during the previous six months, robbed the Needham Trust Company bank and took hostages.
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]
In 1934, he set the world record for the mile run at 4:06.8, which stood for three years. He also set world records in the 800 m in 1936 and in the indoor mile in 1938. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] Also in 1938, Cunningham set a personal best time in the mile run at 4:04.4 testing Dartmouth College 's Alumni Gymnasium indoor track, engineered to allow faster ...
22 September – Gresford disaster: a gas explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wrexham, north-east Wales, which leads to the death of 266 miners and rescuers, [11] one of the worst tragedies in Welsh mining history. 26 September – Launch of the liner RMS Queen Mary [11] at Clydebank.