Historical Events In 1934

Feb 22 It Happened One Night, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Feb 08 Gaston Doumergue forms new French government

Feb 23 Coronation of King Leopold III of Belgium

Feb 10 Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; first unperforated ungummed US stamp

Feb 02 Dutch Roman Catholic Bishops warn against fascism/Nazism

Feb 13 The birth of George Segal, American actor

Feb 19 Bob &Dolores Hope marry

Feb 21 Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by National Guard

Feb 01 Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his own

Feb 10 Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier"

Feb 21 The birth of Nina Simone, American singer

Feb 09 -51ºF (-46ºC), Vanderbilt MI (state record)

Feb 08 Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington DC

Feb 09 Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey &Romania)

Feb 17 The birth of Alan Bates, English actor

Feb 10 First Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine

Feb 17 The birth of Barry Humphries, Australian actor

Apr 12 Winds gust to 231 MPH on Mount Washington NH

Apr 18 The first "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Ft Worth, Tx)

Apr 13 4.7 million US families report receiving welfare payments

Apr 19 Shirley Temple appears in her first movie, "Stand Up & Cheer"

Apr 23 In first Navy movement through Panama Canal over 100 ships transitted

Apr 04 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1716 Peter

Apr 24 Laurens Hammond announced the development of the pipeless organ

Apr 07 William Monroe Trotter dies at 62 in Boston

Apr 24 The birth of Shirley MacLaine, American actress

Apr 18 The first Laundromat opened -- in Fort Worth.

Apr 18 First Laundromat opens in the United States. Now you can wash your dirty laundry in public

Apr 12 Highest velocity wind ever recorded on Mt Washington, NH, 231 mph

Apr 20 One of America’ s most beloved child stars made her debut. Shirley Temple debuted in " Stand Up and Cheer", which opened in New York City. Moviegoers would rave about her song and dance routine, " Baby, Take a Bow", for many years.

Nov 29 Chicago Bears beat Detroit in first NFL game broadcast nationally

Nov 09 The birth of Carl Sagan, American astrophysicist and author

Nov 17 Lyndon B Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor

Sep 08 134 die in a fire aboard the liner Morro Castle off NJ

Sep 18 Soviet Union admitted to the League of Nations

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