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Events on Tuesday 9 October 1934 2
1862 – 1934Louis Barthou (1862-1934)Died 9 October 1934, aged 72French 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 – 1934Alexander I of Yugoslavia (1888-1934)Died 9 October 1934, aged 45King 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.