WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JUNE 1934
Find out what all happened January to June 1934

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

Leopold III becomes King of Belgium. (23. 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)

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

The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean. (13. February 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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