Notable Historical Events - 1934
1934 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison |
Jan 1 |
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (US bank guarantor) effective |
Jan 1 |
International Telecommunication Union established |
Jan 1 |
Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring". |
Jan 2 |
1st state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania |
Jan 2 |
Bradman scores 253 NSW v Queensland, 204 mins, 29 fours 4 sixes |
Jan 4 |
1st Dutch talkie movie, Jan Teunissen's "Willem of Orange," premieres |
Jan 5 |
Fenway Park catches fire for 2nd time (May 8th 1926 also) |
Jan 5 |
National & American baseball leagues select a uniform ball |
Jan 7 |
"Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts |
Jan 8 |
Jaap Speyers "Bluejackets" premieres in Amsterdam |
Jan 13 |
The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR. |
Jan 15 |
8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die |
Jan 15 |
Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut) |
Jan 15 |
While robbing the First National Bank in East Chicago, Indianapolis, Dillinger is shot several times by officer William O'Malley, but survives because he is wearing a bullet proof vest. |
Jan 17 |
Carl Hubbell, NL MVP winner, gets $18,000 contract by the NY Giants |
Jan 17 |
Electric Home & Farm Authority incorporated |
Jan 17 |
NY Giants reward MVP pitcher Carl Hubbell with $18,000 contract |
Jan 18 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Days Without End," premieres in NYC |
Jan 19 |
Kenesaw Mountain Landis denies Joe Jackson's appeal for reinstatement |
Jan 20 |
Japan sends Henry Pu Yi as regent to emperor of Manchuria |
Jan 22 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady MacBeth," premieres in Leningrad |
Jan 26 |
Bradman scores 128 NSW v Victoria, 96 mins, 17 fours 4 sixes |
Jan 26 |
Nazi Germany & Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years |
Jan 26 |
The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City. |
Jan 26 |
German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed. |
Jan 27 |
27th Australian Men's Tennis Open: Fred Perry beat Crawford (6-3 7-5 6-1) |
Jan 27 |
French government of Chautemps falls (Stavisky Affair) |
Jan 27 |
VARA refuses to hire after commemoration of Marinus Van de Lubbe |
Jan 28 |
1st US ski tow (rope) begins operation (Woodstock Vermont) |
Jan 30 |
1st theatrical presentation sponsored by US government, NYC |
Jan 30 |
Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 yrs 298 days |
Jan 30 |
Hitler proclamation on German unified states |
Jan 31 |
FDR devalus dollar in relation to gold at $35 per ounce |
Feb 1 |
Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his |
Feb 2 |
Dutch RC Bishops warn against fascism/nazism |
Feb 6 |
Reds purchase 43-year-old Dazzy Vance from the Cards for $7,500 |
Feb 6 |
Far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France. |
Feb 7 |
1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo, Miss |
Feb 8 |
Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington, DC |
Feb 8 |
Gaston Doumergue forms new French government |
Feb 9 |
-14.3°F (-25.7°C), coldest day in New York City |
Feb 9 |
-51°F (-46°C), Vanderbilt, Michigan (state record) |
Feb 9 |
Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey & Romania) |
Feb 10 |
1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine |
Feb 10 |
Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; 1st unperforated ungummed US stamp |
Feb 10 |
Howard Hanson's "Merry Mount," premieres in NYC |
Feb 10 |
Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier" |
Feb 10 |
Thomson/Gertrude Steins opera premieres in NYC |
Feb 12 |
Export-Import Bank incorporates |
Feb 12 |
France hit by a general strike against fascists & royalists |
Feb 12 |
The Austrian Civil War begins. |
Feb 13 |
Austrian Dollfuss government bans socialist party |
Feb 13 |
The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean. |
Feb 14 |
NHL Ace Bailey Benefit Game: Toronto beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto |
Feb 16 |
Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund. |
Feb 16 |
Commission of Government is sworn in as form of direct rule for the Dominion of Newfoundland. |
Feb 17 |
1st high school auto driving course offered (State College, Penn) |
Feb 19 |
US contract air mail service canceled, replaced by US army for 6 months |
Feb 20 |
Virgil Thomson's opera "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens in NYC |
Feb 21 |
Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by Natl Guard |
Feb 22 |
"It Happened One Night," opens at NY's Radio City Music Hall |
Feb 23 |
Casey Stengel becomes manager of Brooklyn Dodgers |
Feb 23 |
Coronation of King Leopold III of Belgium |
Mar 1 |
Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria |
Mar 1 |
Primo Carnera beats Tommy Loughran in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Mar 2 |
Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha |
Mar 3 |
John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol |
Mar 4 |
Easter Cross on Mt Davidson (SF) dedicated |
Mar 5 |
Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo, Tx) |
Mar 6 |
Sidney Howard & Paul de Kruif's "Yellowjacket" premieres in NYC |
Mar 8 |
Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars |
Mar 10 |
Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games) |
Mar 10 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Suzanne Davis |
Mar 10 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
Mar 11 |
Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer |
Mar 12 |
Acting Pres Constantine Päts commits coup in Tallinn Estonia |
Mar 12 |
Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail |
Mar 12 |
Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler" premieres in Berlin |
Mar 15 |
US Information Service opens |
Mar 16 |
Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act |
Mar 16 |
6th Academy Awards - "Cavalcade", Charles Laughton & Katharine Hepburn wins |
Mar 17 |
Dollfuss, Mussolini & Gombos sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome) |
Mar 20 |
Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar in Kiel Germany |
Mar 20 |
Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless inning for Phila A's in exhibition game against Brooklyn Dodgers |
Mar 21 |
Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500 |
Mar 21 |
Babe Didrikson pitches an inning in an A's-Dodgers exhibition game Walks 1, hits the next guy, 3rd guy hits into triple-play |
Mar 22 |
1st Masters golf championship began in Augusta, Ga |
Mar 22 |
Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000) |
Mar 23 |
US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945 |
Mar 24 |
U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, declaring the Philippines independent after a period of 10 years |
Mar 25 |
1st Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 284 |
Mar 26 |
Driving tests introduced in Britain |
Mar 29 |
Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist workers' movement bankrupt |
Mar 31 |
Netherlands Indies BC Ltd begins radio transmission (Indonesia) |
Apr 1 |
Bonnie & Clyde kill 2 police officers |
Apr 1 |
Clyde Barrow kills two young highway patrolmen, H. D. Murphy and Edward Bryant Wheeler, at the intersection of Route 114 and Dove Road near Grapevine, Texas. Bonnie Parker's role in the murders was greatly exaggerated, but helped turn public perception against the gang for good |
Apr 6 |
418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany |
Apr 7 |
In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience |
Apr 10 |
Stanley Cup: Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 3 games to 1 |
Apr 12 |
Second highest ever wind spped of 372 km/h (231 mph) recorded on Mt Washington |
Apr 12 |
The US Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers. |
Apr 13 |
4.7 million US families report receiving welfare payments |
Apr 13 |
US Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act |
Apr 17 |
New Fenway Park opens, Washington Senators beat Red Sox 6-5 |
Apr 18 |
1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Fort Worth, Tx) |
Apr 18 |
Hitler names Joachim von Ribbentrop ambassador for disarmament |
Apr 19 |
38th Boston Marathon won by Dave Komonen of Canada in 2:32:53.8 |
Apr 19 |
Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up & Cheer" |
Apr 20 |
Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police |
Apr 21 |
Moe Berg, Senators catcher, plays AL record 117th cons errorless game |
Apr 28 |
FDR signs Home Owners Loan Act |
Apr 28 |
Soccer team Blue White '34 forms |
Apr 28 |
Spanish government of Samper forms |
Apr 28 |
Tigers' Goose Goslin grounds into 4 straight double plays |
Apr 29 |
Pitts is last major league city to play a home game on a Sunday |
Apr 30 |
Austria gets "Austrian facist" constitution |
May 1 |
Austria signs pact with Vatican |
May 1 |
Philippine legislature accepts US proposal for independence |
May 1 |
Water state kingdom dismisses NSB-leader Anton Mussert |
May 2 |
Nazi-Germany begins People's court |
May 2 |
Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev, Russian Chemist (commercial synthetic rubber), dies at 59 |
May 3 |
Bradman scores 206 Aust v Worcestershire, 210 mins, 27 fours |
May 5 |
60th Kentucky Derby: Mack Garner aboard Cavalcade wins in 2:04 |
May 6 |
Red Sox score 12 runs in 4th inning including record 4 consecutive triples hit by Carl Reynolds, Moose Solters, Rick Ferrell, & B Walters |
May 7 |
Princess Juliana of the Netherlands opens Juliana Canal |
May 7 |
Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region |
May 7 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White) |
May 7 |
World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines |
May 9 |
Bradman out for a Cricket duck against Cambridge University! |
May 12 |
"Cocktails For Two" by Duke Ellington hits #1 |
May 12 |
60th Preakness: Robert Jones aboard High Quest wins in 1:58.2 |
May 13 |
Great dustbowl storm sweeps across US prairies |
May 15 |
US Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive |
May 15 |
Karlis Ulmanis names himself fascist dictator of Latvia |
May 18 |
Academy Award 1st called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky) |
May 18 |
Congress approves "Lindbergh Act" making kidnapping a capital offense |
May 18 |
Jimmie Foxx hits 1st HR in Comiskey Park center field bleachers |
May 18 |
TWA began commercial service |
May 19 |
Military coup by Col Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria |
May 19 |
Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Sat Review of Lit" Males who solved puzzle became members of Baker Street Irregulars |
May 21 |
Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes first US city to fingerprint its citizens |
May 23 |
The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers. |
May 24 |
Colombia & Peru sign accord about harbor city Leticia |
May 25 |
Béla Bartòk's "Enchanted Deer" premieres |
May 26 |
Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago |
May 28 |
Bradman gets 160 Aust v Middlesex, 124 mins, 27 fours, 1x6, 1x5 |
May 28 |
Hobbs scores his 197th & last FC cricket ton at 51 years 163 days |
May 28 |
Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy. |
May 28 |
The Glyndebourne festival in Sussex, England, is inaugurated. |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Bill Cummings wins in 4:46:05.254 (168.761 km/h) |
Jun 1 |
AFC '34 soccer team forms in Alkmaar |
Jun 3 |
Dr Frederick Banting co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted |
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 Donald Duck cartoon, Wise Little Hen, released |
Jun 9 |
38th US Golf Open: Olin Dutra shoots a 293 at Merion Cricket Club PA |
Jun 9 |
66th Belmont: Wayne D Wright aboard Peace Chance wins in 2:29.2 |
Jun 10 |
Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome |
Jun 10 |
USSR & Romania re-establish diplomatic relations |
Jun 11 |
Disarmament conference in Geneva fails |
Jun 12 |
Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] & United Air Lines |
Jun 14 |
Hitler & Benito Mussolini meet in Vienna |
Jun 14 |
Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City |
Jun 14 |
WOQ-AM in KC Missouri goes off the air |
Jun 15 |
Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated |
Jun 18 |
US Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized |
Jun 19 |
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created |
Jun 22 |
John Dillinger is informally named America's first Public Enemy Number One |
Jun 25 |
Hedley Verity takes 15 wickets v Australia (7-61 & 8-43) |
Jun 25 |
NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits for the cycle beating White Sox 11-2 |
Jun 25 |
Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times |
Jun 26 |
FDR signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions |
Jun 26 |
Germany & Poland sign non-aggression treaty |
Jun 26 |
W.E.B. Du Bois resigns position at NAACP |
Jun 27 |
Federal Savings & Loan Association created |
Jun 28 |
Hitler flies to Essen (Night of Long Knifes) |
Jun 29 |
69th British Golf Open: Henry Cotton shoots a 283 at Royal St George's Golf Club |
Jun 30 |
"Night of Long Knives" - Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party |
Jun 30 |
French Equatorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit |
Jun 30 |
NFL's Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions |
Jul 1 |
1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, NY |
Jul 2 |
General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico |
Jul 3 |
FDIC pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria IL |
Jul 4 |
Jordanians revolt in Amsterdam after reduction in employment |
Jul 4 |
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb. |
Jul 5 |
"Bloody Thursday" - Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco. |
Jul 6 |
47th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Dorothy Little beats H Jacobs (6-2 5-7 6-3) |
Jul 6 |
54th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J Crawford (6-3 6-0 7-5) |
Jul 7 |
Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbledon doubles championship |
Jul 9 |
SS-Reichsfuehrer Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps |
Jul 10 |
1st sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia |
Jul 10 |
2nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-7 at Polo Grounds, New York |
Jul 10 |
Carl Hubbell strikes out Ruth, Gehrig & Foxx in All star game |
Jul 11 |
FDR became 1st US president to travel through Panama Canal |
Jul 12 |
US Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned |
Jul 12 |
Willy de Supervise swims world record 400m (5:16.0) |
Jul 13 |
Babe Ruth hits HR #700 (against Detroit) |
Jul 14 |
116°F (47°C), Orogrande NM (state record, broken on June 27, 1994) |
Jul 14 |
NY Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time |
Jul 14 |
Phillies score 11 runs in an inning, beats Cincinnati 18-0 |
Jul 14 |
Ruth hits 700th career home run |
Jul 15 |
Continental Airlines commences operations. |
Jul 16 |
Bradman scores 140 Aust v Yorkshire, 120 mins, 22 fours 2 sixes |
Jul 17 |
Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland |
Jul 20 |
118°F (48°C), Keokuk, Iowa (state record) |
Jul 21 |
113°F (45°C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record) |
Jul 22 |
Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents. |
Jul 23 |
Bradman completes 304 at Headingley, 430 mins, 43 fours 2 sixes |
Jul 24 |
1st ptarmigan hatched & reared in captivity, Ithaca, NY |
Jul 25 |
Failed nazi coup in Austria |
Jul 27 |
French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms |
Jul 28 |
118°F (48°C), Orofino, Idaho (state record) |
Jul 29 |
17th PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Park CC Williamsville NY |
Jul 31 |
29th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats USA in Wimbledon (4-1) |
Jul 31 |
St Louis Cards defeat Cin Reds 8-6 in 18 innings, pitchers Dizzy Dean & Tony Freitos go the distant |
Aug 2 |
1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it |
Aug 2 |
Adolf Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of German armed forces |
Aug 2 |
William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour |
Aug 3 |
Adolf Hitler merges the offices of chancellor and president, declaring himself 'Führer ' (leader). |
Aug 4 |
NY Giants Mel Ott sets record of 6 runs in game & beats Phillies 21-4 |
Aug 6 |
US troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915 |
Aug 7 |
US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses" |
Aug 10 |
Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player |
Aug 11 |
1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in SF Bay |
Aug 16 |
US ends occupation of Haiti (been there since 1915) |
Aug 16 |
US explorer William Beebe descends 3,028' (923 m) in Bathysphere |
Aug 18 |
48th US Women's Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H Cooke (6-1 6-4) |
Aug 18 |
Bradman scores 244 in 5th Test Cricket, 316 mins, 32 fours 1 six |
Aug 18 |
Ponsford & Bradman make 451 partnership in 316 minutes v Eng |
Aug 19 |
48th US Women's Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H P Fabyan (6-1 6-4) |
Aug 19 |
Paul Runyan wins PGA golf tournament |
Aug 19 |
The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio. |
Aug 20 |
Ponsford out for 266 in his final Test Cricket match |
Aug 22 |
Australia beat England by 562 runs to regain Cricket Ashes |
Aug 22 |
Red Sox pitcher Wes Ferrell hits 2 HRs to beat White Sox 3-2 in 12 |
Aug 27 |
Arlen, Ira Gershwin & Harburgs musical premieres in NYC |
Aug 31 |
1st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 0, All-Stars 0 (79,432) |
Sep 1 |
Spelling-Marchand Laws enforced |
Sep 1 |
SMJK Sam Tet was founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. |
Sep 3 |
Tunisia began its move for independence |
Sep 4 |
Bradman scores 149* Aust v Eng XI, 104 mins, 17 fours 4 sixes |
Sep 8 |
54th US Men's Tennis: Fred Perry beats Wilmer L Allison (6-4 6-3 1-6 8-6) |
Sep 8 |
Bradman scores 132 v Leveson-Gower XI, 90 mins, 24 fours 1 six |
Sep 8 |
Luxury passenger ship Morro Castle bound for NJ catches fire, 133 die |
Sep 9 |
Armas Toivonen becomes 1st European marathoner (2:52:29.0) |
Sep 9 |
G Kaufman & M Hart's "Merrily We Roll Along," premieres in NYC |
Sep 12 |
Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania signs Baltic Entente, against USSR |
Sep 13 |
Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000 |
Sep 17 |
RCA Victor re leases 1st 33 1/3 rpm recording (Beethoven's 5th) |
Sep 17 |
USSR joins League of Nations (Netherland, Switz & Portugal vote no) |
Sep 18 |
St Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1 |
Sep 18 |
USSR admitted to League of Nations |
Sep 19 |
Bruno Haptmann arrested for kidnapping Lindbergh baby |
Sep 21 |
St Louis Card Paul Dean no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 3-0 |
Sep 21 |
Typhoon strikes Honshu Island Japan, kills 4,000 |
Sep 22 |
An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers. |
Sep 24 |
2,500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium |
Sep 24 |
Idle Detroit wins pennant, as Red Sox beat Yankees 5-0 |
Sep 25 |
John Van Druten's "Distaff Side" premieres in NYC |
Sep 25 |
Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,500th consecutive game |
Sep 25 |
Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup |
Sep 26 |
British liner Queen Mary is launched |
Sep 30 |
Babe Ruth's final game as a Yankee, goes 0 for 3 |
Sep 30 |
St Louis Card clinch pennant as Dizzy Dean wins his 30th of year |
Oct 1 |
Adolf Hitler expands German army & navy & creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles |
Oct 8 |
Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Charles Lindbergh's son |
Oct 9 |
St Louis Cards beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3 in 31st World Series |
Oct 9 |
Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France. |
Oct 14 |
"Lux Radio Theatre" premieres |
Oct 16 |
Mao Zedong & 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March |
Oct 17 |
"The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio |
Oct 20 |
All-Star team led by Babe Ruth & Connie Mack sails to Hawaii & Japan |
Oct 20 |
Richard Strauss completes his opera "Die Schweigsame Frau" |
Oct 22 |
In East Liverpool, Ohio, notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd is shot and killed by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents. |
Oct 23 |
Jean Piccard & Jeanette Ridlen attain balloon height of 17.341 m (rec) |
Oct 26 |
While Wash player-mgr Joe Cronin honeymoons with Mildred Robertson owner Clark Griffith's niece & adopted daughter, he is sold to Red Sox |
Oct 28 |
Brooklyn & Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game |
Nov 2 |
Babe Ruth tours Tokyo, Japan |
Nov 3 |
Although Lou Gehrig wins Triple Crown, Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP |
Nov 3 |
Dizzy Dean chosen as NL MVP |
Nov 4 |
Pitts ends Detroit Lions' shutout streak at 7 games but loses 40-7 |
Nov 6 |
NFL Philadelphia Eagles beat Cincinnati Reds 64-0 |
Nov 7 |
Arthur L Mitchell, becomes first black Democratic US congressman (Illnois) |
Nov 8 |
Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president |
Nov 11 |
1st penalty shot vs Toronto Maple Leafs, Mondou (Mont) unsuccessful |
Nov 11 |
WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa splits from WHO-WOC & becomes KICK-AM |
Nov 15 |
Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C Urey (deuterium) |
Nov 20 |
Eiji Sawamura, 17, gives up 1 hit, Lou Gehrig's HR, US beats Japan 1-0 |
Nov 20 |
Lillian Hellman's "Children's Hour" premieres in NYC |
Nov 20 |
New Belgian government of Theunis, Francqui & Gutt (3 bankers) |
Nov 20 |
Tornoto Maple Leaf Harvey Jackson is 1st to score 4 goals in 1 period |
Nov 21 |
"Uiver" returns from Schiphol in London-Melbourne air race |
Nov 21 |
NY Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio from SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) |
Nov 22 |
"Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" 1st heard on Eddie Cantor's show |
Nov 23 |
An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, which lay well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis. |
Nov 24 |
CFL Grey Cup: Sarnia beats Regina, 20-12 at Toronto |
Nov 24 |
SN Behrman's "Rain from Heaven" premieres in NYC |
Nov 26 |
German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to Nazis |
Nov 26 |
Turkish regiment decrees importing family names |
Nov 27 |
Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI. |
Nov 28 |
Winston Churchill tells British Premier Stanley Baldwin not to under estimate German air power |
Nov 29 |
Chic Bears beat Detroit (19-16) in 1st NFL game broadcast nationally |
Dec 1 |
Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov assassinated, used by Stalin as the excuse to begin the Great Purge of 1934-38. |
Dec 2 |
5.08-m (200") Mt Palomar Observatory mirror is cast |
Dec 3 |
Italian colonial Tripoli & Cyrenaica annexed to Libya |
Dec 3 |
KYW-AM in Chicago Ill moves to Phila Penn |
Dec 7 |
Wiley Post discovers jet stream |
Dec 8 |
Friedrich Wolf's "Professor Mamlock" premieres in Zurich |
Dec 9 |
NY Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship |
Dec 10 |
Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp |
Dec 10 |
NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of season |
Dec 10 |
Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite |
Dec 11 |
1935 All-Star Game is assigned to Cleveland |
Dec 11 |
1st Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher unsuccessful vs Rangers |
Dec 11 |
Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League |
Dec 11 |
NL votes to permit night baseball (up to 7 games per home team) |
Dec 13 |
Mark Hellinger Theater (Warner Bros) opens at 237 W 51st St NYC |
Dec 14 |
1st streamlined steam locomotive introduced (Albany NY) |
Dec 15 |
Fokker F18 Snip flies to Neth West Indies |
Dec 19 |
Japan agrees to naval treaty of 1922 & 1930 |
Dec 22 |
1st flight from Netherland to Curacao (Christmas flight 1934) |
Dec 22 |
Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games |
Dec 24 |
Grimmett takes 9-180 for SA as Queensland make 430 |
Dec 25 |
Four centuries for SA as they make 7-644 v Qld before 6,180 |
Dec 25 |
Samson Raphaelson's "Accent on Youth" premieres in NYC |
Dec 26 |
Yomiuri Giants, Japan's 1st professional baseball team forms |
Dec 27 |
1st youth hostel in US opens (Northfield, Mass) |
Dec 27 |
Shah of Persia declares Persia now Iran |
Dec 27 |
Vernon Duke & James Hanley's musical premieres in NYC |
Dec 29 |
1st collegiate basketball doubleheader (Madison Square Garden) |
Dec 29 |
Federico Garcia Lorca's "Yerma," premieres in Madrid |
Dec 29 |
Japan renounces Wash Naval Treaty of 1922 & London Treaty of 1930 |
Dec 31 |
Helen Richey becomes 1st woman to pilot an airmail transport |
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