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1934 Calendar

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•  February 12, 1934 – In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista decides to merge the movement with the Falange Española.
•  February 14, 1934 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dog in Chinese astrology.
•  April 21, 1934 – The “Surgeon’s Photograph”, the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
•  May 21, 1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
•  May 23, 1934 – The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the “Battle of Toledo”, a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
•  July 2, 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
•  July 4, 1934 – Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
•  August 19, 1934 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
•  September 18, 1934 – The USSR is admitted to League of Nations.
•  November 27, 1934 – Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.

•  January 6, 1934 – Sylvia Syms, English actress
•  January 8, 1934 – Alexandra Ripley, American writer (d. 2004)
•  January 29, 1934 – Branko Miljković, Serbian poet (d. 1961)
•  February 14, 1934 – Neil Davis, Australian cameraman (d. 1985)
•  February 19, 1934 – Carole Eastman, American screenwriter (d. 2004)
•  February 20, 1934 – Bobby Unser, American racing driver
•  February 21, 1934 – Rue McClanahan, American actress (d. 2010)
•  March 4, 1934 – Sandra Reynolds, South African tennis player
•  March 15, 1934 – Kanshi Ram, Indian dalit leader
•  December 13, 1934 – Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer