WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 1934
Find out what all happened January to August 1934

Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen. (9. June 1934)

Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes. (22. August 1934)

Leo Szilard patented the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb. (4. July 1934)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions. (26. June 1934)

Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer. (3. August 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)

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

Labor unrest in the U.S.: as police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven. (20. July 1934)

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

The Austrian Civil War begins. (12. February 1934)

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

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

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

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

Leopold III becomes King of Belgium. (23. February 1934)

"Bloody Thursday" – Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco. (5. July 1934)

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

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