Page 15: Historical Events In 1934

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

Dec 01   Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov assassinated, used by Stalin as the excuse to begin the Great Purge of 1934-38.   

Dec 01   Sergei M Kirov, Josef Stalin's collaborator, assassinated in Leningrad   

Dec 02   5.08-m (200") Mt Palomar Observatory mirror is cast   

Dec 03   Italian colonial Tripoli and Cyrenaica annexed to Libya.   

Dec 03   Nicolas Coster, actor (Robert Delaney-Another World).   

Dec 04   Victor French, Santa Barbara Calif, actor (Highway to Heaven)   

Dec 05   Joan Didion, US novelist/journalist (Salvador)   

Dec 07   Wiley Post discovers jet stream.   

Dec 07   Wiley Post discovers the jet stream   

Dec 08   Bernhard Seklas, composer, dies at 62   

Dec 08   Friedrich Wolf's "Professor Mamlock," premieres in Zurich.   

Dec 09   Dame Judi Dench, British actress is born.   

Dec 09   NY Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship.   

Dec 10   Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp   

Dec 11   1935 All-Star Game is assigned to Cleveland   

Dec 11   Salim Durani, cricketer (successful Indian batsman of 60's).   

Dec 13   Mark Hellinger Theater (Warner Bros) opens at 237 W 51st St NYC   

Dec 13   Richard Darryl Zanuck, film producer/executive   

Dec 14   1st streamlined steam locomotive introduced (Albany NY)   

Dec 14   inaugural streamlined steam locomotive introduced, Albany NY   

Dec 14   Turkish women are given the right to vote   

Dec 15   Fokker F18 Snip flies to Neth West Indies   

Dec 15   Maggis Lena Walker, 1st US (black) woman to head a bank, dies at 69.   

Dec 18   Boris Valentinovich Volynov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 21).   

Dec 19   Japan agress to fleet treaty of 1922 and 1930   

Dec 22   1st flight from Netherland to Curacao (Christmas flight 1934)   

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 6180.   

Dec 26   Yomiuri Giants, Japan's 1st professional baseball team forms.   

Dec 27   1st youth hostel in US opens (Northfield, Mass)   

Dec 27   inaugural youth hostel in US opens (Northfield, Mass)   

Dec 27   Larissa Latynina, Ukraine, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956, 60, 64)   

Dec 28   Stalin used the assassination of an aide as an opportunity to execute more than one hundred officials, beginning a series of purges that eliminated most of the old Bolsheviks   

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Jan 03   Bryan george kelly: Composer   

Jan 03   Carla hills: Politician (us pres commission on housing-1982)   

Jan 04   Rudolf schuster: President of slovakia   

Jan 05   William bendeck: Bolivian rally driver   

Jan 06   Bobby lord: Sanford fla, country singer (ozark jubilee)   

Jan 06   Harry m. miller: Australian entrepreneur   

Jan 06   Tassos papadopoulos: President of the republic of cyprus   

Jan 07   Charles lamont jenkins: Nyc, 400m runner (olympic-gold-1956)   

Jan 01   Jakob wassermann: Writer,   

Jan 06   Herbert chapman : Legendary manager of arsenal and huddersfield town (b. 1878)   

Jan 08   Alexandre stavisky: French swindler,    

Jan 10   Marinus van der lubbe: Dutch communist, beheaded in berlin at 24   

Jan 12   Pawel kochanski: Polish violinist, composer and arranger (b. 1887)   

Jan 13   Jean-baptiste marchand: Soldier/explorer (sudan),    

Jan 15   Hermann bahr: Austrian writer (concert),   

Jan 16   Annie patterson: Composer,