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1934 Calendar

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•  February 12, 1934 – The Austrian Civil War begins.
•  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 21, 1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
•  May 28, 1934 – Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
•  June 15, 1934 – The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
•  July 2, 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
•  July 5, 1934 – “Bloody Thursday” – Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
•  July 22, 1934 – Outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater, “Public Enemy No. 1” John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
•  September 8, 1934 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.

•  January 22, 1934 – Graham Kerr, British-born chef
•  March 5, 1934 – Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist, Nobel laureate
•  March 25, 1934 – Gloria Steinem, American feminist and publisher
•  May 28, 1934 – Annette Dionne, Dionne quintuplets
•  July 1, 1934 – Sydney Pollack, American film director (d. 2008)
•  August 5, 1934 – Karl Johan Åström, Control engineer and theorist
•  August 15, 1934 – Bobby Byrd, American soul/funk singer (d. 2007)
•  September 23, 1934 – Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan
•  November 13, 1934 – Jimmy Fontana, Italian actor, composer and singer
•  November 22, 1934 – Rita Sakellariou, Greek singer (d. 1999)