WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MAY 1934
Find out what all happened January to May 1934

The first Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, is released. (5. May 1934)

The Candidate of Sciences degree is established in the Soviet Union. (13. January 1934)

Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia. (15. May 1934)

Alcatraz Island becomes a United States federal prison. (1. January 1934)

The first ski tow in the United States begins operation in Vermont. (28. January 1934)

United States Congress passes the Tydings–McDuffie Act allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth. (24. March 1934)

German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed. (26. January 1934)

The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund. (16. February 1934)

The driving test is introduced in the United Kingdom. (26. March 1934)

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. (23. May 1934)

The Balkan Entente is formed. (9. February 1934)

The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated. (2. February 1934)

In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista decides to merge the movement with the Falange Española. (12. February 1934)

Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria. (19. May 1934)

Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy. (28. May 1934)

The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. (12. April 1934)

Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring". (1. January 1934)

Konstantin Päts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties. (12. March 1934)

Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens. (21. May 1934)

The American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana. (23. May 1934)