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1934 Calendar

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•  January 26, 1934 – The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
•  February 14, 1934 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dog in Chinese astrology.
•  March 26, 1934 – The driving test is introduced in the United Kingdom.
•  June 9, 1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
•  June 30, 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler’s violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
•  July 20, 1934 – Labor unrest in the U.S.: as police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
•  October 16, 1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.
•  November 6, 1934 – Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.
•  November 27, 1934 – Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
•  November 30, 1934 – The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.

•  January 5, 1934 – William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (d. 1971)
•  May 28, 1934 – Yvonne Dionne, Dionne quintuplets(d. 2001)
•  July 8, 1934 – Ed Lumley, Canadian corporate executive and politician
•  July 21, 1934 – Chandu Borde, former Indian cricketer
•  August 21, 1934 – Paul Panhuysen, Dutch composer, visual and sound artist
•  September 10, 1934 – Jim Oberstar, American politician
•  September 16, 1934 – George Chakiris, American actor
•  September 25, 1934 – Jean Sorel, French actor
•  September 29, 1934 – Lance Gibbs, Guyanese West Indies cricketer
•  December 19, 1934 – Rudi Carrell, Dutch entertainer (d. 2006)