What Happened In July 1934 In History

Historical Events for July, 1934

• 2nd » The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
• 4th » Leo Szilard patented the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb.
• 5th » "1934 West Coast waterfront strike e.g Bloody Thursday" Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
• 11th » Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the 'Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft', about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take off.
• 20th » Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking Trucker known as truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
• 20th » 1934 West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle Seattle, Washington, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking stevedore longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland, Oregon Portland docks.
• 25th » The Nazi Germany e.g Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.

Famous Birthdays on July in 1934

• 1st » Claude Berri, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2009)
• 1st » Jamie Farr, American actor and screenwriter
• 1st » Jean Marsh, English actress and screenwriter
• 1st » Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2008)
• 2nd » Tom Springfield, English singer-songwriter and producer (The Springfields)
• 4th » Yvonne B. Miller, American politician (d. 2012)
• 4th » Colin Welland, English actor and screenwriter
• 8th » Raquel Correa, Chilean journalist (d. 2012)
• 8th » Marty Feldman, English actor and screenwriter (d. 1982)
• 8th » Alice Gerrard, American singer and banjo player
• 8th » Ed Lumley, Canadian businessman and politician
• 9th » Michael Graves, American architect, designed the Portland Building and the Humana Building
• 10th » Jerry Nelson, American puppeteer and voice actor (d. 2012)
• 11th » Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer, founded the Armani named Armani Company
• 12th » Van Cliburn, American pianist (d. 2013)
• 13th » Peter Gzowski, Canadian journalist and academic (d. 2002)
• 13th » Gordon Lee (footballer) e.g Gordon Lee, English footballer and manager
• 13th » Wole Soyinka, Nigerian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize in Literature e.g Nobel Prize laureate
• 13th » Aleksei Yeliseyev, Russian engineer and astronaut
• 15th » Harrison Birtwistle, English composer
• 15th » Risto Jarva, Finnish director and producer (d. 1977)
• 16th » Donald M. Payne, American politician (d. 2012)
• 18th » Edward Bond, English director, playwright, and screenwriter
• 18th » Darlene Conley, American actress (d. 2007)
• 18th » Roger Reynolds, American composer and educator
• 19th » Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Portuguese politician, 111th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
• 20th » Uwe Johnson, German author and scholar (d. 1984)
• 20th » Doug Padgett, English cricketer and manager
• 20th » Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress and singer (d. 1996)
• 21st » Chandu Borde, Indian cricketer
• 21st » Jonathan Miller, English actor, director, and author
• 22nd » Louise Fletcher, American actress
• 24th » Sante Kimes, American murderer (d. 2014)
• 24th » P. S. Soosaithasan, Sri Lankan politician
• 25th » Don Ellis, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1978)
• 25th » Claude Zidi, French director and screenwriter
• 26th » Tommy McDonald (American football) known as Tommy McDonald, American football player
• 28th » Lau Kar-leung, Chinese actor, martial artist, and director (d. 2013)
• 30th » Bud Selig, American businessman

Famous Deaths for July 1934

• 2nd » Ernst Röhm, German Stabschef called SA officer (b. 1887)
• 4th » Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 6th » Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian commander (b. 1888)
• 8th » Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer and academic (b. 1848)
• 12th » Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor and businessman, invented the outboard motor (b. 1877)
• 21st » Hubert Lyautey, French general (b. 1854)
• 22nd » John Dillinger, American bank robber (b. 1903)
• 25th » François Coty, French businessman, founded Coty, Inc. (b. 1874)
• 25th » Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician, 14th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1892)
• 26th » Winsor McCay, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1871)
• 28th » Marie Dressler, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1868)
• 28th » Louis Tancred, South African cricketer (b. 1876)
• 29th » Didier Pitre, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1883)

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