WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO OCTOBER 1934
Find out what all happened April to October 1934

Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 135 people. (8. September 1934)

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. (11. July 1934)

Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr.. (19. September 1934)

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

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

Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman. (16. October 1934)

Outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents. (22. July 1934)

Steamship RMS Queen Mary is launched. (26. September 1934)

The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place. (30. June 1934)

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

Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg. (2. August 1934)

Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer. (3. August 1934)

The U.S. Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers. (12. April 1934)

In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd. (22. October 1934)

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

The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt. (25. July 1934)

Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France. (9. October 1934)

The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations. (18. September 1934)

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