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Events on Tuesday 15 May 1934 2
1934 – 2025Alvin Poussaint (1934-2025)Died 24 February 2025, aged 90American child psychiatrist who wrote on racial identity and health among African Americans and advised The Cosby Show.
1934Latvian coup d'étatKārlis Ulmanis establishes authoritarian rulePrime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis dissolved the Saeima and banned political parties with the support of the army and the Aizsargi militia. He ruled Latvia as an authoritarian leader until the Soviet occupation of 1940.