WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO AUGUST 1934
Find out what all happened May to August 1934

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

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

The U.S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded. (15. June 1934)

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

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

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

Outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents. (22. July 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 Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place. (30. June 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)

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

1934 West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, Washington, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks. (20. July 1934)

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

The creation of the position Führer is approved by the German electorate with 89.9% of the popular vote. (19. August 1934)

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