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1934 Calendar

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•  February 9, 1934 – The Balkan Entente is formed.
•  February 14, 1934 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dog in Chinese astrology.
•  February 16, 1934 – The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund.
•  March 12, 1934 – Konstantin Päts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties.
•  May 21, 1934 – Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
•  June 6, 1934 – New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
•  June 13, 1934 – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as “a silly little monkey”.
•  August 19, 1934 – The creation of the position Führer is approved by the German electorate with 89.9% of the popular vote.
•  September 19, 1934 – Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr.
•  November 30, 1934 – The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.

•  March 4, 1934 – Sandra Reynolds, South African tennis player
•  June 1, 1934 – Pat Boone, American singer
•  June 22, 1934 – James Bjorken, American theoretical physicist
•  July 28, 1934 – Jacques d'Amboise, American choreographer
•  July 30, 1934 – Bud Selig, American Commissioner of Baseball
•  August 5, 1934 – Gay Byrne, Irish broadcaster
•  August 16, 1934 – John Standing, English actor
•  September 16, 1934 – Elgin Baylor, American basketball player
•  October 15, 1934 – N. Ramani, Indian flutist
•  December 3, 1934 – Viktor Gorbatko, Soviet cosmonaut