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1934 Calendar

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•  January 1, 1934 – Alcatraz Island becomes a United States federal prison.
•  January 13, 1934 – The Candidate of Science degree is established in the USSR.
•  January 20, 1934 – Fujifilm, the photographic and electronics company, is founded in Tokyo, Japan.
•  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 12, 1934 – Konstantin Päts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties.
•  May 19, 1934 – Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
•  June 15, 1934 – The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
•  August 3, 1934 – Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer.
•  September 8, 1934 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people.

•  March 2, 1934 – Dottie Rambo, American singer (d. 2008)
•  April 19, 1934 – Dickie Goodman, American producer of novelty songs (d. 1989)
•  May 3, 1934 – Georges Moustaki, Egyptian born Greek-French singer and songwriter
•  June 20, 1934 – Wendy Craig, English actress
•  August 23, 1934 – Sonny Jurgensen, American football player
•  October 18, 1934 – Calvin Lockhart, Bahamian actor (d. 2007)
•  November 17, 1934 – Fenella Fielding, English actress
•  December 4, 1934 – Victor French, American actor (d. 1989)
•  December 5, 1934 – Joan Didion, American writer
•  December 24, 1934 – Stjepan Mesić, president of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement and president of Croatia