Major Events
- May 13 Great dustbowl storm sweeps across US prairies
- May 23 American outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow - Bonnie and Clyde, are killed by police in an ambush near Sailes, Louisiana
- Jun 30 "Night of Long Knives" - Adolf Hitler stages a bloody purge of the Nazi party
- Jul 4 Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb
- Aug 3 Adolf Hitler merges the offices of German Chancellor and President, declaring himself "Führer" (leader)
- Oct 16 Mao Zedong and 25,000 troops begin their 6,000 mile Long March from the south of China to the north and west
- Dec 1 Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov is assassinated, Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great Purge of 1934-38
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1934 in Film & TV
- Feb 22 "It Happened One Night" directed by Frank Capra and starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert opens at NY's Radio City Music Hall (Academy Awards Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay 1935)
- Mar 16 6th Academy Awards: "Cavalcade" and its director Frank Lloyd, Charles Laughton (The Private Life of Henry VIII), and Katharine Hepburn (Morning Glory) win; host Will Rogers announces "Come and get it, Frank" and Frank Capra gets up
- Apr 19 Shirley Temple appears in her 1st feature length film, "Stand Up & Cheer"
- Jun 9 1st appearance of Donald Duck in a cartoon, "The Wise Little Hen"
1934 in Sport
Did You Know?
Parisian baker and "student of medieval life" Henri Littière appears in court charged with forcing his adulterous wife Juliette to wear a chastity belt. Having committed the same offence in 1932, he was sentenced to three months in prison and fined 50 francs for cruelty to his wife
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Fun Fact About 1934
Academy Award gold statuette 1st called Oscar in print by Sidney Skolsky
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Articles About 1934
Bonnie and Clyde Killed
FBI photo of the car carrying Bonnie and Clyde after the shootoutMay 23And God Created Brigitte Bardot . . .
Brigitte Bardot, a leading sex symbol of the 1950s and 1960s, was born on this day. Such was her fame that she became widely known simply by her initials – BB.September 28
Famous Weddings in 1934
- Jan 7 Dutch Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld
- Jan 30 American comedian and actor Lou Costello (27) weds American burlesque dancer Anne Battler (21)
- Jan 30 Painter Salvador Dali (30) weds Gala Dali (39) in a civil ceremony in Paris
Famous Divorces in 1934
- May 23 First wife Marguerite Van Kessel divorces NFL player Curly Lambeau (36) after 14 years of marriage
- Nov 7 Actress Gloria Swanson (35) divorces Michael Farmer after 3 years of marriage
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