Timeline Saturday 1 December 1934

Events on Saturday 1 December 1934 2

• 1886 – 1934 Sergei Kirov (1886-1934) Died 1 December 1934, aged 48 Head of the Communist Party in Leningrad, shot dead at the Smolny Institute by Leonid Nikolaev. Stalin used the assassination as a pretext for the repression that became the Great Purge.
• 1934 Lázaro Cárdenas becomes President of Mexico Start of a reforming presidency Lázaro Cárdenas took office as President of Mexico. His government carried out large land reforms and nationalised the oil industry in 1938.