1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). 1934 - Events. January 1 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison. January 1 - Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring." January 7 - First Flash Gordon comic strip is published. January 10 - Execution of Marinus van der Lubbe January 24 - Einstein visits White House January 26 - The Apollo The ...

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1934 in rail transport - February events. February - General Motors Electro-Motive Division completes construciton on Union Pacific Railroad's M-10000 streamlined passenger trainset. February 12 - Union Pacific takes delivery of M-10000, later known as the “City of Salina”. 1934 in rail transport - April events. April 9 - The Budd Company completes construction of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad's Pioneer Zephyr. April ...

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of Chinese Astrology: Recent birth-years for the zodiacal Dog with associated five elements are (inclusively): February 10, 1910 to January 29, 1911: Metal January 28, 1922 to February 15, 1923: Water February 14, 1934 - February 03, 1935: Wood February 02, 1946 - January 21, 1947: Fire February 18, 1958 - February 07, 1959: Earth February 06, 1970 - January 26, 1971: Metal January 25, 1982 - February 12, 1983: Water February 10, 1994 - January 30, 1995: Wood 29 January, 2006 - 17 February, 2007: Fire 20 ...

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January Soviet pilots Fedossenko, Wassenko and Usyskin take the stratosphere-balloon Ossoaviachim I to 22,000 m (72,160 ft). January 10-11 - A flight of six US Navy Consolidated P2Y flying boats set a new distance record for formation flying, 2,400 miles (3,862 km) between San Francisco and Pearl Harbor, also setting a new speed record for this crossing of 24 hours 35 mintues. February February 3 - Lufthansa begins the first regular airmail service across the Atlantic Ocea ...

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Sir Bernard Katz (March 26, 1911 – April 20, 2003) was a German-born biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry. He shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1970 with Julius Axelrod and Ulf von Euler. He was knighted in 1970. Born in Leipzig, Germany, he was educated at the König-Albert-Gymnasium in that city from 1921 to 1929 and went on to study medicine at the University of Leipzig. He graduated in 1934 and fled to Britain in February 1935, the rise of Hitler having made his mixed Russian-Jewish her ...

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William Felton Russell (born February 12, 1934) is a former American basketball player remembered for his central role in the Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in the 13 seasons that he played. His major contribution to the sport was raising defensive play to a new level; he is commonly considered the greatest defensive center to ever play the game. Born in Monroe, Louisiana and raised in Oakland, California, the 6-foot 9-inch (2.06 m) tall Russell played college basketball at the University of San Francisco, whi ...

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2000 - January. January 2 - Patrick O'Brian, English writer (b. 1914) January 15 - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916) January 19; Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934) Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (b. 1913) 2000 - February. February 9 - Beau Jack, American boxer (b. 1921) February 10 - Jim Varney, Actor (b. 1949) February 11 - Roger Vadim, French film director (b. 1928) Feb ...

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Albert Hackett (February 16, 1900 – March 16, 1995) was an American dramatist and screenwriter. He almost always collaborated with his wife Frances Goodrich (December 21, 1890 – January 29, 1984). The Hacketts came to Hollywood in the late 1920s to write the screenplay for their stage success Up Pops the Devil for Paramount Pictures. In 1933 they signed a contract with MGM and remained with them until 1939. Among their earliest assignments was writing the screenplay for The Thin Man (1934). They were en ...

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Abelardo L. Rodríguez (12 May 1889 – 13 February 1967) was the interim president of Mexico from 1932-1934, completing the term of Pascual Ortiz Rubio after his resignation. Born in San Jose de Guaymas, Sonora, to a poor family, he worked early in his life in a hardware store, in a copper mine, and as a professional baseball player. His did not finish his primary studies in Nogales, Sonora. He joined the Mexican revolution in 1913 and began moving up the ranks soon after. He became a Colonel in 1916, and following his involve ...

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Elijah Muhammad (October 7, 1897–February 25, 1975) led the largely African-American spiritual and political organization, the Nation of Islam from 1934 to 1975. Elijah Muhammad - Muhammad's Rise. Elijah was born Elijah Poole in Sandersville, Georgia as one of 13 children of tenant farmers (share croppers) who were former slaves. At the age of 16 he left home and traveled about America, and in 1917 would be wedded to Clara Evans, later to be known as Mother Clara Muhammad. In 1923 he finally settled in De ...

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Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин; listen ▶ (help·info)) (born February 1, 1931) was President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. Boris Yeltsin - Early life. Boris Yeltsin was born to a peasant family in Butka village, Talitsa district, Sverdlovsk region. His father, Nikolai Yeltsin, was convicted of anti-Soviet agitation in 1934 and served in a gulag for three years. After his release he r ...

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Audre Geraldine Lorde (February 18, 1934 in Harlem, New York City - 1992) was a multi-faceted writer and activist. Audre Lorde - Life. Lorde was born in New York City to parents of West Indian heritage; Frederick Byron Lorde and Linda Gertrude Belmar Lorde. Lorde was nearsighted and legally blind. The youngest of five children, she grew up in Harlem during the Depression, hearing her mother's stories about the West Indies. She learned to talk while she learned to read, at the age of four. Her mother taught ...

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The fire of the Justizpalast ("Palace of Justice") in 1927 after a judicial error following violent demonstrations, the collapse of the largest bank of the country, and finally the dissolution of parliament in 1933 marked the way to the Civil War in February of 1934. After Engelbert Dollfuß, who had been Chancellor of Austria and foreign minister since 1932, had forbidden the Nazi Party, the Communist Party and the Schutzbund in 1933, this ban began to cover the Social Democratic Party in 1934 after the February Uprising. Only the Va ...

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1984 - January-April. January 7 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) January 20 - Johnny Weissmuller, Austrian-born swimmer and actor (b. 1904) January 21 - Jackie Wilson, American singer (b. 1934) January 30 - Luke Kelly, Irish folk singer (b. 1940) February 8 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (b. 1903) February 9 - Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1914) February 12 - Julio Cortázar ...

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First staged on February 20, 1934, the opera was notable in that it defied many traditional aspects of opera. Stein's libretto focused more on an affinity for the sounds of words than on presenting a narrative. The plot of the opera focuses on two sixteenth century Spanish saints—Ignatius of Loyola and Teresa of Avila—as well as their followers, St. Settlement and St. Chavez. The cast also includes St. Teresa's alter ego, "St. Teresa II", and the master and ...

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Four Saints in Three Acts, Four Saints in Three Acts - Overview, Four Saints in Three Acts - Productions

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Hugh O'Flaherty was born in Cahersiveen, Ireland on February 28th 1898. He studied theology in Killarney seminary. He was posted to Rome in 1922, to finish his studies and was ordained December 20, 1925. He stayed to work for the Holy See. O'Flaherty served as a Vatican diplomat in Egypt, Haiti, Santo Domingo and Czechoslovakia. In 1934 O'Flaherty received the title of Monsignor. In additio ...

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Bonnie and Clyde were ambushed and killed May 23, 1934, on a desolate road near their Bienville Parish, Louisiana, hideout. They were shot by a posse of four Texas and two Louisiana officers (the Louisiana pair added solely for jurisdictional reasons — an aspect of pre-FBI America that Clyde had exploited to its fullest when selecting robbery and hideout locations). The posse was led by former Texas Ranger captain Frank Hamer, who had never before seen Bonnie or Clyde. He had begun tracking the pair on February 10, 1934, after being specif ...

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With his AMR 33 not yet being delivered to the French army, Louis Renault used two production vehicles to improve the type. In the middle of February 1934 he sent the first to the testing commission, refitted with a much more powerful engine. To his dismay the commission did not allow the whole production run to be converted to the new type; but a subsequent order of 92 for the second vehicle with its more reliable four-cylinder engine was made on 3 July 1934 . This was to have the name AMR 35. Also eight command tanks were to be produced, with a much larger superstructure but without a turret, which would be called AMR 35 ADF. Renau ...

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1984 - January-April. January 7 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) January 20 - Johnny Weissmuller, Austrian-born swimmer and actor (b. 1904) January 21 - Jackie Wilson, American singer (b. 1934) January 30 - Luke Kelly, Irish folk singer (b. 1940) February 8 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (b. 1903) February 9 - Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1914) February 12 - Julio Cortázar ...

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