11 events found for 1934
During a strike against the Electric Auto-Lite company in Toledo, a fight began between nearly 10,000 American strikers
The landmark Australian Eastern Mission concluded after a three-month diplomatic tour of East and South-East Asia
German chancellor Adolf Hitler began a purge of the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party and other political rivals, exec
The Blue Lotus, the fifth volume of The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé and noted for its…
A referendum supported the recent merging of the posts of chancellor and president of Germany, consolidating Adolf…
Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust was first published in full.
The Muroto typhoon, the strongest in Japanese history at the time, made landfall on the mainland, killing more than…
Chandrashekhar Agashe established the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd., one of the oldest companies in India.
One of Britain's worst mining accidents took place when an explosion at Gresford Colliery in Wales killed 266 men.
Catalonia's autonomous government, led by Lluís Companys (pictured), declared a general strike, an armed insurgency,…
Jeannette Piccard (pictured) piloted a hot-air balloon flight that reached 57,579 feet (17,550 m), becoming the first…