WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO SEPTEMBER 1934
Find out what all happened April to September 1934

The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax). (21. April 1934)

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

Leo Szilard patented the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb. (4. July 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 All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio. (19. August 1934)

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

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

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

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

SMJK Sam Tet is founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. (1. 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)

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

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

An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers. (22. September 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 first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island. (11. August 1934)

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