Twentieth Century
Release year: 1934
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Starring: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
Country: United States of America
April 1934 calendar
Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in April 1934.
The US president was Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Ramsay MacDonald (Labour), Pope Pius XI was leading the Catholic Church.
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Historical Events
Which were the important events of April 1934?
Events
- 06 Apr 1934 418 Lutheran ministers are arrested in Germany.
- 07 Apr 1934 In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspends his campaign of civil disobedience.
- 12 Apr 1934 The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
- 13 Apr 1934 US Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act.
- 18 Apr 1934 First "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Fort Worth, Texas).
- 19 Apr 1934 Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, Stand Up & Cheer
- 20 Apr 1934 Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector of Prussian secret state police.
- 21 Apr 1934 Moe Berg, Washington Senators' catcher, plays American League record 117th consecutive errorless game.
- 22 Apr 1934 John Dillinger and two others shoot their way out of an FBI ambush in northern Wisconsin.
- 28 Apr 1934 FDR signs Home Owners Loan Act
- 30 Apr 1934 The first S-train line in Copenhagen is opened. The Line started in Klampenborg and ended in Frederiksberg.
Famous Birthday
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American dancer, actress, writer and metaphysician.
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British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace.
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Famous Deaths
Dies at 75.
Composer, dies at 80.
civil rights activist/journalist, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston, Massachusetts.
Italian poet, songwriter, playwright and fascist intellectual, one of the signers of the Manifesto of the Fascvist Intellectuals.
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Movies
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Badge of Honor
Release year: 1934
Directed by: Spencer Gordon Bennet
Starring: Buster Crabbe, Ruth Hall, Ralph Lewis, Betty Blythe
Liliom
Release year: 1934
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Starring: Charles Boyer, Madeleine Ozeray, Robert Arnoux, Roland Toutain
Double Door
Release year: 1934
Directed by: Charles Vidor
Starring: Evelyn Venable, Mary Morris, Anne Revere, Kent Taylor
Viva Villa!
Release year: 1934
Directed by: Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman
Starring: Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, Leo Carrillo, Donald Cook