January 1934

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The following events occurred in January 1934:

January 1, 1934 (Monday)

January 2, 1934 (Tuesday)

  • The Warka Vase was found at Uruk, as a collection of fragments, by German Assyriologists in their sixth excavation season.[5]
  • Cuban President Ramón Grau signed a decree setting April 22 as the date for the election of a constitutional assembly. Grau also said that he would not be continuing in the presidency beyond May 20.[6]

January 3, 1934 (Wednesday)

January 4, 1934 (Thursday)

  • The Henschel Hs 121 aircraft made its maiden flight.[9]
  • A new station building was opened at Leigh-on-Sea railway station, UK.[10]
  • A bomb was thrown at the Yugoslavian consulate in Klagenfurt, Austria, damaging the building and blowing out windows of nearby buildings but not causing any injuries. Officials suspected Austrian Nazis were to blame due to recent articles in a government newspaper alleging that the Nazis promised to give Carinthia to Yugoslavia in the event of a German annexation of Austria.[11]
  • Born: Rudolf Schuster, President of Slovakia 1999–2004, in Košice

January 5, 1934 (Friday)

January 6, 1934 (Saturday)

January 7, 1934 (Sunday)

January 8, 1934 (Monday)

January 9, 1934 (Tuesday)

January 10, 1934 (Wednesday)

January 11, 1934 (Thursday)

January 12, 1934 (Friday)

January 13, 1934 (Saturday)

January 14, 1934 (Sunday)

January 15, 1934 (Monday)

January 16, 1934 (Tuesday)

January 17, 1934 (Wednesday)

  • Carlos Hevia resigned as President of Cuba on just his third day in office.[40]
  • The Jonker diamond was found at the Elandsfontein mine in South Africa by Johannes Jacobus Jonker.
  • The Prussian Economic and Labour Ministry ordered miners to accompany their traditional greeting of "Glück auf" with a raising of the right hand.[41]
  • Born: Cedar Walton, jazz pianist, in Dallas, Texas (d. 2013)

January 18, 1934 (Thursday)

  • Manuel Márquez Sterling became the new President of Cuba for a few hours and was then replaced by Carlos Mendieta.
  • Engelbert Dollfuss made a speech implicitly warning Germany not to meddle in Austrian affairs, saying that "it is perhaps not an entirely safe game when a country, whose importance in central Europe and, indeed, all Europe is generally understood and recognized, continues to be constitutionally threatened in its independence and freedom by a great power – which unfortunately is also a country inhabited by brother folk."[42]
  • German cargo ship MV Leverkusen collided with Danish ship SS Frederiksborg at Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands, and was beached.
  • British cargo ship SS Oakford ran aground off Vlieland, Friesland, Netherlands and was wrecked with the loss of nine crew.
  • Australian airlines Qantas and Imperial Airways joined forces and establish "Qantas Empire Airways".
  • Born: Raymond Briggs, illustrator and author, in Wimbledon, London, England

January 19, 1934 (Friday)

January 20, 1934 (Saturday)

January 21, 1934 (Sunday)

January 22, 1934 (Monday)

January 23, 1934 (Tuesday)

January 24, 1934 (Wednesday)

January 25, 1934 (Thursday)

January 26, 1934 (Friday)

January 27, 1934 (Saturday)

January 28, 1934 (Sunday)

January 29, 1934 (Monday)

January 30, 1934 (Tuesday)

  • On the first anniversary of Hitler's appointment as chancellor, the Reichstag passed the "Law on the Reconstruction of the Reich" (Gesetz über den Neuaufbau des Reiches), transferring sovereignty rights of the states to the federal government. Hitler appeared before the Reichstag and gave a lengthy speech listing his government's accomplishments.[66]
  • Soviet pilots Pavel Fedosenko, Andrey Vasenko, and Ilya Usyskin took the hydrogen-filled high-altitude balloon Osoaviakhim-1 on its maiden flight to a record-setting altitude of 22,000 meters (72,000 ft), where it remained for twelve minutes. The 7-hour 14-minute flight—during which the balloon traveled 470 kilometers (290 mi) from its launch site—ended in tragedy when the crew loses control of the balloon during its descent and the gondola disintegrates and crashes near the village of Potizh-Ostrog in Insarsky District of Mordovian Autonomous Oblast in the Soviet Union, killing the crew.[67]
  • Over 6,000 dances and parties were held across the United States on the occasion of President Roosevelt's 52nd birthday as a fundraiser for the Warm Springs Foundation and polio rehabilitation. Over $1 million was raised.[68][69]
  • President Roosevelt signed the Gold Reserve Act into law.
  • Artist Salvador Dalí and his muse Gala were married in a simple civil ceremony in Paris.[70]
  • Born: Tammy Grimes, US actress and singer, in Lynn, Massachusetts (d. 2016)

January 31, 1934 (Wednesday)

  • Édouard Daladier became Prime Minister of France for the second time.
  • Police in Chicago apprehended bank robber and kidnapper Verne Sankey in a barber shop.[71]
  • Italy announced its support for negotiations that would allow rearmament for Germany, expressing confidence that Germany was not thinking of "war-like moves outside her borders" and that guarantees would be provided that the increased armaments would not be used to infringe upon the security of other nations.[72]
  • Sir Philip Whistler Street completed his term of office as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, to be replaced by Sir Frederick Richard Jordan.
  • Born: Bob Turner, ice hockey player, in Regina, Saskatchewan (d. 2005), Grahame Woods, cinematographer, television playwright and novelist

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