Timeline October 1934

Events in October 1934 10

• 1852 – 1934 Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) Died 17 October 1934, aged 82 Spanish neuroscientist who showed that the nervous system is made up of individual neurons. He shared the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Camillo Golgi.
• 1852 – 1934 Santiago Ramón y Cajal Father of Neuroscience Nobel Prize winner who discovered the individual structure of neurons.
• 1860 – 1934 Raymond Poincaré (1860-1934) Died 15 October 1934, aged 74 President of France during the First World War and prime minister several times. In 1923 he ordered the occupation of the Ruhr, and in 1926 he stabilised the franc.
• 1862 – 1934 Louis Barthou (1862-1934) Died 9 October 1934, aged 72 French foreign minister and former prime minister who worked to build an alliance against Nazi Germany. He was fatally wounded during the assassination of King Alexander I in Marseille.
• 1888 – 1934 Alexander I of Yugoslavia (1888-1934) Died 9 October 1934, aged 45 King of Yugoslavia who imposed a royal dictatorship in 1929. A Bulgarian gunman working with the Ustaše and IMRO assassinated him in Marseille, and the killing was one of the first filmed on newsreel.
• 1904 – 1934 Pretty Boy Floyd (1904-1934) Died 22 October 1934, aged 30 American bank robber who was named Public Enemy Number One after Dillinger's death. FBI agents and local police shot him dead near East Liverpool, Ohio.
• 1934 Revolution of 1934 in Spain Asturian miners' uprising and Catalan revolt A general strike against the entry of CEDA into the government became an armed uprising of miners in Asturias, and Catalonia declared a Catalan State. Troops under General Franco's direction crushed the Asturian revolt, killing well over 1,000 people.
• 1934 – 1976 Ulrike Meinhof (1934-1976) Died 9 May 1976, aged 41 Ulrike Meinhof, a founding member of the West German militant group the Red Army Faction, was found hanged in her cell at Stammheim Prison. Her death was ruled a suicide, though it was disputed by supporters who alleged foul play. She had been on trial for a series of bombings and other attacks.
• 1934 MacRobertson Air Race England to Melbourne air race won in under three days The race from RAF Mildenhall to Melbourne marked the centenary of Melbourne. It was won by the de Havilland DH.88 Comet Grosvenor House, flown by C. W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black, in about 71 hours.
• 1934 Fermi discovers the effect of slow neutrons Slowed neutrons greatly increase nuclear reactions Enrico Fermi's team in Rome found that neutrons slowed by paraffin were far more effective at inducing radioactivity. The discovery was essential to later nuclear reactors and won Fermi the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics.