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1934 Calendar

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•  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.
•  May 15, 1934 – Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
•  June 9, 1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
•  July 22, 1934 – Outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, “Public Enemy No. 1” John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
•  September 1, 1934 – SMJK Sam Tet is founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.
•  September 21, 1934 – A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing 3,036 people.
•  October 9, 1934 – Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
•  October 15, 1934 – The Soviet Republic of China collapses when Chiang Kai-shek’s National Revolutionary Army successfully encircles Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.
•  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.

•  January 20, 1934 – Tom Baker, British actor
•  January 23, 1934 – Pierre Bourgault, Quebec politician and essayist (d. 2003)
•  March 9, 1934 – Del Close, American actor, writer and teacher (d. 1999)
•  August 1, 1934 – John Beck, Former New Zealand cricketer (d. 2000)
•  August 2, 1934 – Valery Bykovsky, Soviet cosmonaut
•  August 18, 1934 – Ronnie Carroll, British singer
•  September 30, 1934 – Alan A'Court, English footballer (d. 2009)
•  November 9, 1934 – Ronald Harwood, South African author and playwright
•  December 6, 1934 – Nick Bockwinkel, American professional wrestler