Timeline July 1934

Events in July 1934 18

• 1854 – 1934 Hubert Lyautey (1854-1934) Died 27 July 1934, aged 79 Marshal of France and first Resident-General of the French protectorate in Morocco. He was briefly minister of war in 1916 and 1917.
• 1867 – 1934 Marie Curie (1867-1934) Died 4 July 1934, aged 66 Polish-French physicist and chemist who pioneered research on radioactivity and discovered polonium and radium. She was the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two sciences. She died of aplastic anaemia caused by radiation exposure.
• 1867 – 1934 Marie Curie Nobel Pioneer Born Maria Skłodowska, she was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes (Physics and Chemistry).
• 1868 – 1934 Marie Dressler (1868-1934) Died 28 July 1934, aged 65 Canadian-born actress who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Min and Bill in 1931. She was one of the biggest box-office stars of the early sound era.
• 1878 – 1934 Erich Mühsam (1878-1934) Died 10 July 1934, aged 56 German anarchist poet and playwright who took part in the Bavarian Soviet Republic. SS guards murdered him at Oranienburg concentration camp.
• 1887 – 1934 Ernst Röhm (1887-1934) Died 1 July 1934, aged 46 Co-founder and chief of staff of the Nazi SA stormtroopers. He was arrested and shot on Hitler's orders during the Night of the Long Knives.
• 1892 – 1934 Engelbert Dollfuss (1892-1934) Died 25 July 1934, aged 41 Chancellor of Austria who suspended parliament and set up the authoritarian Federal State of Austria. Austrian Nazis killed him during the failed July Putsch.
• 1903 – 1934 John Dillinger (1903-1934) Died 22 July 1934, aged 31 American bank robber whom the FBI named Public Enemy Number One. FBI agents shot him dead outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago.
• 1934 Night of the Long Knives Hitler purges the SA leadership and political rivals Hitler ordered the SS and Gestapo to kill Ernst Röhm and the SA leadership along with conservative opponents, including former chancellor Kurt von Schleicher. At least 85 people were killed. The purge secured the support of the army for the Nazi regime.
• 1934 Roald Dahl joins the Shell Petroleum Company Trained in Britain, then posted to East Africa He chose a job over university and ended up running Shell business in Tanganyika with two colleagues.
• 1934 Wimbledon 1934 Men: Fred Perry · Women: Dorothy Round Fred Perry won the first of three consecutive titles — last British men's champion until Andy Murray 2013.
• 1934 Hollywood Production Code enforced Films require a certificate of approval The Production Code Administration under Joseph Breen began requiring films to receive a seal of approval before release. This ended the Pre-Code era, and the rules on film content stayed in force until the late 1960s.
• 1934 – 2008 Sydney Pollack (1934-2008) Died 26 May 2008, aged 73 American film director and actor whose credits included Tootsie and Out of Africa, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director. He also had a prolific career as a producer and character actor.
• 1934 – 1981 Marty Feldman (1934-1981) Died 2 December 1981, aged 47 British comedian and actor Marty Feldman, known for his bulging eyes and for films including Young Frankenstein, died of a heart attack in Mexico City on 2 December 1981 while filming Yellowbeard. He had earlier made his name as a writer and performer on British television comedy. He co-wrote for shows including The Frost Report and At Last the 1948 Show.
• 1934 NKVD takes over Soviet state security OGPU absorbed into the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs The OGPU secret police was merged into a reorganised all-Union NKVD under Genrikh Yagoda. The NKVD went on to carry out the Great Purge.
• 1934 – 2013 Van Cliburn (1934-2013) Died 27 February 2013, aged 78 Van Cliburn was an American pianist who won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 during the Cold War, becoming a celebrated cultural figure in both the US and Soviet Union. He died at his home in Texas of bone cancer.
• 1934 San Francisco general strike Citywide walkout supports striking longshoremen After police killed two strikers on Bloody Thursday, San Francisco unions called a general strike in support of the West Coast waterfront strike. The strike led to the unionisation of every West Coast port.
• 1934 July Putsch in Austria Austrian Nazis assassinate Chancellor Dollfuss Austrian Nazis stormed the Chancellery in Vienna and fatally shot Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, but the coup failed. Mussolini moved troops to the Brenner Pass to deter German intervention, and Kurt Schuschnigg became chancellor.