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News and Events of 1934

World Events

population by decade

Nobel Peace Prize:
Arthur Henderson (UK)

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Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria is assassinated by Nazis.
Hitler becomes Führer when chancellorship and presidency are united.
U.S.S.R. admitted to League of Nations.
Dionne sisters, first quintuplets to survive beyond infancy, born in Canada. Background: Multiple Births
Mao Zedong begins the Long March north with 100,000 soldiers.

President: Franklin D Roosevelt
Vice President: John N. Garner
Population: 126,373,773

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Securities Exchange Act is passed, establishing the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Federal Communications Commission is established to regulate communications.
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker ambushed by lawmen in Louisiana. John Dillinger is shot outside Chicago movie theater.
Dust storms ruin about 100 million acres and damage another 200 million acres of cropland in Kansas, Texas, Colorado, and Oklahoma ("Dust Bowl").

Federal spending:   $6.54 billion
Consumer Price Index:   13.4
Unemployment:   22.0%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.03

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St. Louis Cardinals d. Detroit (4-3)

Chicago d. Detroit (3-1)

Women: Dorothy Round d. H. Jacobs (6-2 5-7 6-3)
Men: Fred Perry d. J. Crawford (6-3 6-0 7-5)

Cavalcade

Minnesota (8-0-0)

Italy d. Czechoslovakia (2-1 (OT))

Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: Lamb in His Bosom, Caroline Miller
Drama: Men in White, Sidney Kingsley

Oscars awarded in 1934
Academy Award, Best Picture: Cavalcade (Fox)

Nobel Prize for Literature: Luigi Pirandello (Italy)

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The Communications Act of 1934 creates the Federal Communications Commission, which regulates broadcasting.
It Happened One Night sweeps the Academy Awards, winning Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Actress.

Chemistry: Harold C. Urey (US), for discovery of heavy hydrogen

Physics: None awarded

Physiology or Medicine: George H. Whipple, George R. Minot, and William P. Murphy (US), for discovery of liver therapy against anemias

Enrico Fermi works on the creation of new elements through the bombardment of uranium with neutrons.
Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie create the first man-made radioactive substance by bombarding aluminum with alpha particles that create radioactive phosphorus.
Henrik Dam discovers vitamin K.