Timeline January 1934

Events in January 1934 8

• 1868 – 1934 Fritz Haber (1868-1934) Died 29 January 1934, aged 65 German chemist who won the Nobel Prize for synthesising ammonia, the basis of artificial fertiliser. He also directed Germany's chemical weapons programme in the First World War. He died in exile in Basel after leaving Nazi Germany.
• 1880 – 1934 Andrei Bely (1880-1934) Died 8 January 1934, aged 53 Russian Symbolist poet and novelist. His novel Petersburg is regarded as one of the great works of modernist fiction.
• 1934 Australian Open 1934 Men: Fred Perry · Women: Joan Hartigan
• 1934 – 1987 Jacques Anquetil Maître Jacques The first to win the Tour de France five times; a master of the time trial. Winner: 5x Tour de France.
• 1934 Discovery of artificial radioactivity Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot create radioactive isotopes Irène Joliot-Curie and Frédéric Joliot announced that bombarding light elements such as aluminium with alpha particles produced new radioactive isotopes. The discovery earned them the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake Magnitude 8 quake devastates northern India and Nepal A powerful earthquake struck the border region of Nepal and the Indian province of Bihar. Around 10,000 people were killed, and towns including Munger and Kathmandu suffered severe destruction.
• 1934 Congress of Victors Seventeenth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party The 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party celebrated the successes of collectivisation and industrialisation. Most of its delegates were later killed in the Great Purge.
• 1934 German–Polish Non-Aggression Pact Germany and Poland agree ten years of peace Nazi Germany and Poland signed a declaration renouncing force between them for ten years. The pact weakened the French alliance system in Eastern Europe, and Hitler repudiated it in 1939.