1934
Unsorted 1934 Events [Bottom]
JANUARY
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01 - Germany ? begins a crash program to create a
4,000 aircraft Luftwaffe by the end of 1935.
01 - Prohibition ends in United States
24 - |Holocaust ?+|
Jews are banned from the German Labor Front.
31 - Britain's ambassador to Germany warned the Foreign Office that
sanctions should've been imposed on Germany after the reoccupation of the Rhineland.
FEBRUARY
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12,13 - General strike in France.
17 - Albert I of Belgium dies.
MARCH
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01 - |China ?+|
Henry Pu-yi was crowned emperor of Manchukuo. Skirmishes continue
between Japanese and Chinese troops.
mar 24 - US Act declares that the Philippines will be independent from 1945.
APRIL
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10 - Tokyo objects to credits and loans of $55 million from Britain
and the United States to China.
20 - |Spain ?| General Jose Sanjurjo granted amnesty.
MAY
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may 17 - |Germany ?
|Holocaust ?+| Jews not allowed national health insurance.
19 - A military coup occurs in Bulgaria.
JUNE
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jun 30 - |GERMANY|
'The Night of Long Knives' occurs as Hitler ?+, Göring and Himmler
conduct a purge. The SS murders over 1000 of Hitler's most dangerous opponents within
and outside of the Nazi Party. [u.jul 02]
JULY
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04 - Marie Curie dies
20 - |GERMANY| The SS (Schutzstaffel) is made an independent organization from the SA.
22 - |Germany ?
|Holocaust ?+| Jews are prohibited from getting legal
qualifications.
23 - Austria's Chancellor Dollfuss is assassinated in an unsuccessful
Nazi coup attempt.
AUGUST
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00 - Chinese Nationalist forces launch a large offensive against Chinese Communist troops located south of the Yangtze River. [u.sep]
02 - President von Hindenburg dies and Adolf Hitler ?+ proclaims
himself Fuehrer and Chancellor. The armed forces are compelled to swear an oath to him
personally.
16 - The American explorer, William Beebe descends 3,028 feet in
his bathysphere into the ocean near Bermuda.
19 - Hitler receives a 90 percent 'Yes' vote from German voters
approving his new powers.
SEPTEMBER
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18 - The Soviet Union joins the League of Nations +.
OCTOBER
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07 - |Spain ?| Manuel Azańa is arrested and interned in Barcelona.
09 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and the French foreign minister are
assassinated in Marseilles by Croatian and Macedonian extremists.
NOVEMBER
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22 - Yugoslavia claims the assassinations were organized in Hungary.
28 - Winston Churchill +¢ tells Parliament that Germany is
building a modern air force which threatened Britain.
DECEMBER
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01 - Stalin confidant Serge Kirov is assassinated. As a consequence,
Stalin orders a purge of the Communist Party.
05 - Fighting breaks out between Ethiopia and Italy inside Ethiopia near
the border of Italian Somaliland.
05 - Yugoslavia begins deporting Hungarians.
29 - Japan renounces the 1922 Washington Naval treaty.
30 - Mussolini + ordered the "total conquest of
Ethiopia".
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