WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO DECEMBER 1934
Find out what all happened May to December 1934

The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio. (19. August 1934)

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

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

An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis. (23. November 1934)

The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm. (2. July 1934)

Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930. (29. December 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)

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

A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing 3,036 people. (21. 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)

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

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

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

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

Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city. (5. December 1934)

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

The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC). (19. June 1934)

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

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

New Deal: the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Act of 1933 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. (6. June 1934)