What Happened in June 1934

Historical Events

Scriven French Women's Champion

Jun 2 French Championship Women's Tennis: England's defending champion Margaret Scriven beats American Helen Jacobs 7-5, 4-6, 6-1

Jun 2 French Championships Men's Tennis: Gottfried von Cramm of Germany wins 1st of 2 French titles; beats Australian Jack Crawford 6-4, 7-9, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3

Frederick Banting Knighted

Jun 4 Dr Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted

Medical Scientist and Physician Frederick Banting

Jun 5 1st formal meeting of Baker Street Irregulars (NYC)
Jun 6 Securities & Exchange Commission established
Jun 6 Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game
Jun 9 1st appearance of Donald Duck in a cartoon, "The Wise Little Hen"
Jun 9 66th Belmont: Wayne D Wright aboard Peace Chance wins in 2:29.2

38th US Men's Open

Jun 9 US Open Men's Golf, Merion Cricket Club: Olin Dutra overcomes an 8-stroke deficit after 36 holes to win his second major title by 1 stroke from Gene Sarazen

Jun 10 FIFA World Cup Final, Stadio Nazionale PNF, Rome, Italy: Angelo Schiavio scores the winner in extra time as Italy beats Czechoslovakia, 2-1
Jun 10 USSR & Romania re-establish diplomatic relations
Jun 11 Disarmament conference in Geneva fails

Boeing Empire Split

Jun 12 Black-McKeller Bill passes causes the break-up of William Boeing's empire into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] and United Airlines

Baer KO's Carnera

Jun 14 American boxer Max Baer KO's defending champion Primo Carnera of Italy in 11th round at Madison Square Garden for the lineal world heavyweight title

Hitler Meets Mussolini

Jun 14 European despots Adolf Hitler, of Germany, and Benito Mussolini, of Italy, meet in Vienna, Austria

Jun 14 WOQ-AM in Kansas City Missouri goes off the air
Jun 15 Great Smokey Mountains National Park on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee is dedicated
Jun 18 US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized
Jun 19 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created

Public Enemy Number One

Jun 22 John Dillinger is informally named America's first Public Enemy Number One

Jun 25 Hedley Verity takes 15 wickets for England v Australia (7-61 & 8-43)
Jun 25 NY Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times

Gehrig Beats White Sox

Jun 25 NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits for the cycle beating White Sox 11-2

Jun 25 Previously unknown Winchester Manuscript of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" (1485) announced discovered in the library of Winchester College, England

Federal Credit Union Act

Jun 26 FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions

Jun 26 Germany & Poland sign non-aggression treaty

W.E.B. Du Bois Resigns

Jun 26 W.E.B. Du Bois resigns position at NAACP

Civil Rights Activist and Sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois

Jun 27 Federal Savings & Loan Association created
Jun 28 Adolf Hitler flies to Essen, Germany for "Night of Long Knives"
Jun 29 British Open Men's Golf, Royal St. George's GC: Henry Cotton of England wins wire-to-wire by 5 shots from South African Sid Brews
Jun 30 "Night of Long Knives" - Adolf Hitler stages a bloody purge of the Nazi party
Jun 30 Detroit radio executive George Richards pays $7,952.08 to buy NFL's Portsmouth Spartans; moves team to Detroit and rebrands it to 'Lions'
Jun 30 French Equatorial Africa reconstituted into a single French colony and administrative unit

Events in 1934

Famous Birthdays

Jun 1 (Charles) "Pat" Boone, American singer ("Tutti Frutti"), actor (April Love; The Cross and The Switchblade; No More Mr. Nice Guy) and TV personality (The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom), born in Jacksonville, Florida
Jun 1 Peter Masterson, actor (Ambush Bay), born in Houston, Texas
Jun 1 Willy Roggeman, Flemish writer (Goldfish, Nardis)
Jun 2 Johnny Carter, American singer (The Flamingos, The Dells), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2009)
Jun 3 Jim Gentile, American MLB player, "Diamond Jim", born in San Francisco, California
Jun 3 Rolland D. McCune, American theologian
Jun 4 Carl Fredrik Reutersward, Swedish artist (knotted-gun sculpture), born in Stockholm (d. 2016)
Jun 4 Seamus Elliott, Irish road bicycle racer (first English speaker to win stages in all Grand Tours), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1971)
Jun 4 William Elliott, American actor (Bridget Loves Bernie - "Otis"; Adam-12- "Officer Grant"), and jazz drummer, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1983)
Jun 5 Bill Moyers, American news commentator (Bill Moyers' Journal) and White House Press Secretary, born in Hugo, Oklahoma
Jun 5 Curt Michel, American astrophysicist and NASA astronaut, born in LaCrosse Wisconsin (d. 2015)
Jun 5 Gwen Swire, British social worker (BASW) (d. 1961)
Jun 5 Vilhjálmur Einarsson, Icelandic athlete (Olympic silver triple-jump 1956; Iceland's first ever Olympic medal), born in Reyðarfjörður, Iceland (d. 2019)
Jun 6 Albert II, King of Belgium (1993-2013), born in Stuyvenberg Castle, Laeken, Brussels, Belgium
Jun 6 Roy Innis, American activist, leader of the Congress of Racial Equality, born in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands (d. 2017)
Jun 7 Beverly Wills, American actress (I Married Joan - "Beverly"; Some Like It Hot), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1963)

Jun 7 Philippe Entremont, French pianist and conductor (Vienna Chamber Orchestra, 1976-91), born in Reims, France
Jun 7 Samuel Lipman, American pianist and music critic, born in Los Gatos, California (d. 1994)
Jun 8 Millicent Martin, English actress (Alfie, Nothing but the Best), born in Romford, Essex
Jun 9 Donald Duck, famous fowl
Jun 9 Helga Haase, East German 500m speed skater (Olympic gold 1960), born in Danzig, Germany (d. 1989)

Jackie Wilson (1934-1984)

Jun 9 American soul singer-songwriter and performer ("Lonely Teardrops"; "Higher And Higher": "I Get the Sweetest Feeling"), born in Detroit, Michigan

Jun 9 Michael Mates, British politician (C) resigned during Asil Nadir scandal, born in Brentford, Middlesex
Jun 9 Paul Karolyi, Hungarian composer, born in Budapest (d. 2015)
Jun 9 Wild Jimmy Spruill, American blues guitarist, born in Fayetteville, North Carolina (d. 1996)
Jun 10 Nicolas Roussakis, American composer, born in Athens, Greece (d. 1994)
Jun 11 Henrik [Henri Marie Jean André de Laborde de Monpezat], Prince Consort of Denmark, born in Talence, Gironde, France (d. 2018)
Jun 11 Lady Annabel Goldsmith, English socialite, born in Westminster, London
Jun 11 Thornton James "Pookie" Hudson, American vocalist (The Spaniels - "Goodnite Sweetheart Goodnite"), born in Des Moines, Iowa (d. 2007)
Jun 12 John A. Alonzo, American cinematographer (pioneered handheld work, lighting techniques and HD video development), born in Dallas, Texas (d. 2001)
Jun 13 Dick Mann, American motorcycle racer (A.M.A. Grand National C'ship 1963, 71; Motorcycle Hall of Fame 1998), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2021)
Jun 13 Janet Pilgrim, American early playmate model for Playboy (July 1955, Dec 1955, Oct 1956), born in Wheaton, Illinois (d. 2017)
Jun 13 Uriel Jones, American jazz and session drummer (Motown's Funk Brothers), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2009)
Jun 15 Ruby Nash Curtis [Garnett], American pop and R&B singer (Ruby and the Romantics - "Our Day Will Come"; "Hey There Lonely Boy"), born in Akron, Ohio
Jun 16 Bill Cobbs [Wilbert], American actor (Night at the Museum, The Color of Money), born in Cleveland, Ohio
Jun 16 Eileen Atkins, English actress (Equus, Devil Within Her), born in London, England
Jun 16 Elvira Vinogradova, Russian TV persona
Jun 16 Little Caesar [Carl Burnett], American pop and R&B vocalist (Little Caesar & the Romans - "Those Oldies but Goodies (Remind Me of You)"), born in the USA
Jun 16 Lucia Dlugoszewski, Polish-American composer (Fire Fragile Flight), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2000)
Jun 16 William Forsyth Sharpe, American economist, Nobel laureate
Jun 18 Brian Kenny, British Army officer, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander (Europe), born in Aldershot, England (d. 2017)
Jun 18 Carl de Winter, sect-gen (Federation of British Artists)
Jun 18 Gladstone "Gladdy" Anderson, Jamaican ska and reggae session keyboard player, and bandleader ("The Liquidator"), born in Jones Town, Jamaica (d. 2015)
Jun 18 Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese manga artist (d. 2004)
Jun 19 Hammond Furlonge, cricketer (WI batsman in 3 Tests 1955-56)
Jun 19 Terence Clark, British diplomat
Jun 20 Alain Bancquart, French contemporary classical composer, born in Dieppe, France
Jun 20 Brian Barder, British high commissar (Australia)
Jun 20 Cornel Țăranu, Romanian composer (Garlands), born in Cluj. Romania
Jun 20 Horst Mahseli, Polish soccer striker (9 caps; Legia Warsaw), born in Bytom, Poland (d. 1999)
Jun 20 José Villegas, Mexican soccer defender (6 caps; CD Guadalajara), born in La Experiencia, Mexico (d. 2021)
Jun 20 Rossana Podestà, Italian actress (Helen of Troy), (d. 2013)
Jun 20 Wendy Craig, English actress (Butterflies), born in Sacriston, England
Jun 21 Wulf Kirsten, German writer, born in Klipphausen, Meissen
Jun 23 Marino H. Casem, American College Football Hall of Fame coach (Alabama State, Alcorn State, Southern) and athletic administrator (Alcorn State, Southern), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 2020)
Jun 24 Carl Hall [Caldwell], American soul singer ("You Don't Know Nothing About Love"; "What About You"), and session vocalist, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1999)
Jun 25 Willy Rodriguez, West Indian cricketer (occasional leg-spin bat for WI in 60's), born in St Clair, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Jun 26 Dave Grusin, American jazz pianist and Academy and Grammy Award-winning composer specializing in film scores (The Milagro Beanfield War; Ishtar), born in Littleton, Colorado
Jun 26 Filipe Pires, Portuguese pianist, composer (Portugaliae Genesis), and educator, born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 2015)
Jun 26 Jeremy Wolfenden, British journalist and spy, born in England (d. 1965)
Jun 26 John V Tunney, American politician (Rep/Sen-D-California), born in New York City (d. 2018)
Jun 26 Josef Sommer, German-American actor (Witness; Target; Iceman; Forced March), born in Greifswald, Germany
Jun 28 Carl Levin, American attorney and politician (U.S. Senator from Michigan, 1979-2015), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2021)
Jun 28 Roy Gilchrist, West Indian cricket fast bowler (13 Tests, 57 wickets; Jamaica, Hyderabad), born in St Thomas, Jamaica (d. 2001)
Jun 29 Henning Kronstam, Danish dancer, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1995)
Jun 30 Harry Blackstone, Jr., American stage magician (Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion), born in Three Rivers, Michigan (d. 1997)

Born in 1934

Famous Weddings

Byron Nelson

Jun 24 American professional golfer Byron Nelson (22) weds American Louise Shofner (21), until her death in 1985

Kenneth Patchen

Jun 28 Novelist Kenneth Patchen (22) weds Miriam Patchen in nearby Sharon, Pennsylvania

Famous Deaths

Jun 3 Frank J. Corr, American lawyer and politician (acting Mayor of Chicago for 6 weeks in 1933), dies at 57
Jun 6 Charles Francis Jenkins, American Inventor and early television pioneer (also invented the altimeter and automobile self-starter), dies at 66
Jun 6 Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and writer (b. 1864)
Jun 6 Max Pallenberg [Pollack], Austrian extempore farce actor (Morn to Midnight), husband of operetta star Fritzi Massary, dies in air crash at 56
Jun 8 Dorothy Dell [Goff], American child actress (Little Miss Marker, Wharf Angel), dies in a road accident at 19
Jun 10 Frederick Delius, British composer (A Mass of Life, Brigg Fair; In a Summer Garden), dies at 72

Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)

Jun 11 Russian psychologist, dies at 37

Jun 15 Alfred Bruneau, French composer (Léda), dies at 77
Jun 18 Francisco Lacerda, Portuguese composer, conductor, and musicologist, dies at 65
Jun 21 Thorne Smith, American sci-fi author (Stray Lamb, Topper, Turnabout), dies at 42
Jun 30 Erich Klausener, Catholic politician killed in the Night of the Long Knives murders (b. 1885)
Jun 30 Ernst Röhm, German army officer and chief organizer of Adolf Hitler’s Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung, or SA; Brownshirts), executed at 46
Jun 30 Gregor Strasser, German political activist and NSDAP-Reich organization leader, murdered during the Night of the Long Knives at 42
Jun 30 Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Prime Minister of Bavaria killed during the Night of the Long Knives murders (b. 1862)
Jun 30 Karl Ernst, German SA-leader, murdered during the Night of the Long Knives at 29
Jun 30 Kurt von Schleicher, German politician (German Chancellor 1932-33), murdered by the Nazi SS during the Night of the Long Knives at 52

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