WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO SEPTEMBER 1934
Find out what all happened June to September 1934

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

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

Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes. (22. August 1934)

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

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

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

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

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

"Bloody Thursday" – Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco. (5. July 1934)

An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers. (22. September 1934)

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

SMJK Sam Tet is founded by Father Fourgs from the St. Michael Church, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. (1. September 1934)

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

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

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

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

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