The temperature on April 30, 1934 was between 9.6 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay becomes a United States federal prison.
May 21 » Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
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.
September 18 » The Soviet Union is admitted to the League of Nations.
September 22 » The Gresford disaster in Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers.
December 11 » Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time.
Day of death May 14, 1934
The temperature on May 14, 1934 was between 2.6 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
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.
May 19 » Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
June 19 » The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
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.
September 8 » Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SSMorro Castle kills 137 people.
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