WORLD HISTORY · 1934 日本語
Events of 1934Showa 9 (Japan) · Year of the Dog
What happened in 1934?
In 1934, the Great Hakodate Fire and the Muroto Typhoon caused heavy damage in Japan, and the Tanna Tunnel opened. Abroad, Puyi, the last Qing emperor, became emperor of Manchukuo, and Hitler became Führer of Germany.
- Puyi becomes emperor of ManchukuoAsia
- Great fire breaks out in HakodateAsia
- Night of the Long Knives purgeEurope
- Hitler becomes FührerEurope
- Soviet Union joins League of NationsEurope
- Muroto Typhoon makes landfall, damaging western JapanAsia
- Tanna Tunnel opensAsia
- Japan gives notice to end Washington Naval TreatyNorth America
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1934 at a glance
| Japanese era | Showa 9 |
|---|---|
| Chinese zodiac | Year of the Dog |
| Age of people born in 1934 | Turn 92 in 2026 |
| Previous / next year | 1933 (Showa 8) ／ 1935 (Showa 10) |
| Events | 56 |
| AP World History | Unit 7 (Global Conflict) |
| AP U.S. History | Period 7 |
Famous people born in 1934
Our birthday pages list 583 people born in 1934. Here are some of them.
- Bart StarrBorn January 9 · turns 92 this year · Hall of Fame quarterback who led the Green Bay Packers to five NFL titles and w…
- Hank AaronBorn February 5 · turns 92 this year · American baseball Hall of Famer who hit 755 career home runs and broke Babe Rut…
- Bill RussellBorn February 12 · turns 92 this year · Basketball Hall of Famer who won 11 NBA championships with the Boston Celtics a…
- Daniel KahnemanBorn March 5 · turns 92 this year · Israeli-born psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics for research on…
- Yuri GagarinBorn March 9 · turns 92 this year · Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to travel into space, orbiting Eart…
- Gloria SteinemBorn March 25 · turns 92 this year · American journalist and feminist activist who co-founded Ms. magazine and becam…
- Jane GoodallBorn April 3 · turns 92 this year · British primatologist whose decades of chimpanzee research in Tanzania changed…
- Shirley MacLaineBorn April 24 · turns 92 this year · American actress, dancer, and author who won an Oscar for Terms of Endearment a…
- Giorgio ArmaniBorn July 11 · turns 92 this year · Italian fashion designer who founded the Giorgio Armani company and popularized…
- Roberto ClementeBorn August 18 · turns 92 this year · Puerto Rican baseball star for the Pittsburgh Pirates and the first Latino play…
- Sophia LorenBorn September 20 · turns 92 this year · Italian film star who became the first actress to win an Oscar for a performanc…
- Leonard CohenBorn September 21 · turns 92 this year · Canadian poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter whose songs include Suzanne, Bir…
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- Carl SaganBorn November 9 · turns 92 this year · American astronomer and science communicator who hosted the TV series Cosmos an…
- Brigitte BardotBorn September 28 · turns 92 this year
- Manuel NoriegaBorn February 11 · turns 92 this year
- Charles MansonBorn November 12 · turns 92 this year
- Alan BergBorn January 1 · turns 92 this year
- Lakhdar BrahimiBorn January 1 · turns 92 this year
- John HollowbreadBorn January 2 · turns 92 this year
- Carla Anderson HillsBorn January 3 · turns 92 this year
- Marpessa DawnBorn January 3 · turns 92 this year
- Rudolf SchusterBorn January 4 · turns 92 this year
- Murli Manohar JoshiBorn January 5 · turns 92 this year
- Phil RamoneBorn January 5 · turns 92 this year
- Harry M. MillerBorn January 6 · turns 92 this year
- Sylvia SymsBorn January 6 · turns 92 this year
- Jean CorbeilBorn January 7 · turns 92 this year
- Tassos PapadopoulosBorn January 7 · turns 92 this year
- Jacques AnquetilBorn January 8 · turns 92 this year
- Roy KinnearBorn January 8 · turns 92 this year
- Leonid KravchukBorn January 10 · turns 92 this year
- Jean ChrétienBorn January 11 · turns 92 this year
- Mitchell RyanBorn January 11 · turns 92 this year
- Alan SharpBorn January 12 · turns 92 this year
- Mick SullivanBorn January 12 · turns 92 this year
- Alberto Rodríguez LarretaBorn January 14 · turns 92 this year
- Pierre DarmonBorn January 14 · turns 92 this year
- Richard BriersBorn January 14 · turns 92 this year
- V. S. RamadeviBorn January 15 · turns 92 this year
- Bob BogleBorn January 16 · turns 92 this year
Events of 1934 (timeline · 56)
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A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany.
The 8.0 Mw Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people.
Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
The Commission of Government is officially sworn in; ending 79 years of responsible government in Newfoundland.
The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund.
The landmark Australian Eastern Mission led by John Latham departs on its three-month tour of East and South-East Asia.
The Tydings–McDuffie Act is passed by the United States Congress, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
The U.S. Auto-Lite strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
The strongest surface wind gust in the world at the time of 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. It has since been surpassed.
The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1994, it is revealed to be a hoax).
A self coup by prime minister Kārlis Ulmanis succeeds in Latvia, suspending its constitution and dissolving its Saeima.
Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
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.
Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The landmark Australian Eastern Mission returns from its three-month tour of East and South-East Asia.
The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
"Bloody Thursday": The police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
The rigid airship USS Macon surprises the USS Houston near Clipperton Island with a mail delivery for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, demonstrating its potential for tracking ships at sea.
West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
The German referendum of 1934 approves Adolf Hitler's appointment as head of state with the title of Führer.
Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only test cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 137 people.
Revolution of 1934: The President of the autonomous government of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, proclaims the Catalan State with the support of the Worker's Alliance.
An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.
In East Liverpool, Ohio, FBI agents shoot and kill the notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
Sergei Kirov is assassinated, paving way for the repressive Great Purge, and Vinnytsia massacre by General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin.
Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time.
Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
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FAQ
What year was 1934 in the Japanese calendar?
1934 was Showa 9 in the Japanese era system.
What Chinese zodiac animal is 1934?
1934 is the Year of the Dog.
How old is someone born in 1934?
They turn 92 on their birthday in 2026.
What happened in 1934?
In 1934, the Great Hakodate Fire and the Muroto Typhoon caused heavy damage in Japan, and the Tanna Tunnel opened. Abroad, Puyi, the last Qing emperor, became emperor of Manchukuo, and Hitler became Führer of Germany.
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