January 17 » El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
March 14 » Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
June 11 » A group of Serbian officers stormed the royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife, Queen Draga.
June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
August 2 » The Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins.
Day of marriage February 15, 1934
The temperature on February 15, 1934 was between -0.2 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany.
April 21 » The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
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 22 » The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
October 16 » Chinese Communists begin the Long March to escape Nationalist encirclement.
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