The temperature on February 8, 1934 was between 3.0 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
February 23 » Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
March 24 » United States Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
July 5 » "Bloody Thursday": Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
July 25 » The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
September 21 » A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than three thousand people.
Day of death February 9, 1934
The temperature on February 9, 1934 was between -0.5 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany.
March 24 » United States Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
April 12 » The U.S. Auto-Lite strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
May 15 » Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
July 20 » West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
October 16 » Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement.
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