What happened in 1934

Japan4

• Mar 20The Great Hakodate Fire kills at least 2,166 people in southern Hokkaido, Japan.
• Sep 21The Muroto typhoon in Honshū, Japan kills 3,036 people, and destroys the temple, schools, and other buildings in Osaka.
• Oct 2A typhoon in Osaka and Kyoto, Japan, kills 1,660, injures 5,400, and destroys the rice harvest.
• The Yomiuri Giants, a successful professional baseball club in Japan, is founded in Tokyo.

North America3

• Mar 13John Dillinger and his gang rob the First National Bank in Mason City, Iowa, United States, stealing $52,000.
• Mar 24The Tydings–McDuffie Act is passed, allowing the Philippines a greater degree of self-government from the United States.
• Jun 9Donald Duck makes his film debut in Walt Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon The Wise Little Hen.

Europe17

• Feb 6French political crisis: The French far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon, in an attempted coup d'état against the Third Republic.
• Feb 9Greece, Romania, Turkey and Yugoslavia form the Balkan Pact.
• Feb 12Austrian Civil War: The Fatherland Front consolidates its power in a series of clashes across the country.
• Feb 23King Leopold III of Belgium succeeds to the throne, following the death (February 17) of his father King Albert I.
• May 1The May Constitution of 1934 heralds the beginning of the Austrofascist Federal State of Austria.
• May 19Kimon Georgiev stages a coup d'état in Bulgaria.
• Jun 30Night of the Long Knives in Germany: Nazis purge the Sturmabteilung (SA), the left-wing Strasserist faction of the Nazi Party, and prominent conservative anti-Nazis, in a series of political murders.
• Jul 13Hitler gives a speech to the Reichstag, justifying his purge.
• Jul 25July Putsch: Austrian Nazis assassinate chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, during a failed coup attempt.
• Aug 2Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany, or head of state combined with that of Chancellor, following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
• Aug 8The Wehrmacht swears a personal oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler.
• Aug 191934 German referendum: In a referendum, 90% of the German population approves of Hitler's assumption of presidential powers, as Führer and Reichskanzler.
• Oct 6Events of October the 6th: the President of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, declares the Catalan State of the Spanish Federal Republic, but Spanish troops swiftly crush the Catalan forces, and arrest him and the members of the Catalan government. The autonomy of Catalonia is suspended until 1936.
• Oct 9King Alexander of Yugoslavia is assassinated, while French foreign minister Louis Barthou is accidentally killed by the French police, during the king's state visit in Marseille.
• Oct 20The MacRobertson Air Race is flown from RAF Mildenhall in England to Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate the centenary of the state of Victoria. The overall winner is the British de Havilland DH.88 Comet G-ACSS Grosvenor House, flown by C. W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black.

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Asia2

• Jan 15The 8.0 Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people.
• Oct 16The Long March of the People's Liberation Army of the Chinese Communist Party begins.

Middle East1

• Jun 27Imam Yahya of Yemen and Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia conclude a peace treaty.

Latin America1

• Feb 21Augusto César Sandino is assassinated in Managua, by the National Guard.