December 1934 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1934 In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolayev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad.
• 02 Dec 1934 5.08-m (200) Mt Palomar Observatory mirror is cast
• 03 Dec 1934 KYW-AM in Chicago Ill moves to Philadelphia Penn
• 05 Dec 1934 Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
• 07 Dec 1934 Wiley Post discovers the jet stream.
• 09 Dec 1934 New York Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship.
• 10 Dec 1934 Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite.
• 11 Dec 1934 1935 All-Star Game is assigned to Cleveland, Ohio.
• 13 Dec 1934 Mark Hellinger Theater (Warner Bros) opens at 237 W 51st St, New York City
• 14 Dec 1934 First streamlined steam locomotive introduced (Albany, New York).
• 15 Dec 1934 Fokker F18 Snip flies to the Netherlands West Indies
• 18 Dec 1934 A low-key fascist conference is held in Moreaux.
• 19 Dec 1934 Japan agress to fleet treaty of 1922 and 1930.
• 22 Dec 1934 Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games
• 24 Dec 1934 Grimmett takes 9-180 for SA as Queensland make 430
• 25 Dec 1934 Four centuries for South Africa as they make 7-644 versus Queensland before 6,180.
• 26 Dec 1934 An American Airlines aircraft crashes in the Adirondack Mountains.
• 27 Dec 1934 First youth hostel in US opens (Northfield, Massachusetts).
• 29 Dec 1934 Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
• 31 Dec 1934 Helen Richey becomes 1st woman to pilot an airmail transport

Famous Birthday

• Judi Dench

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• Maggie Smith

  Movie Actress.

• Joan Didion

  American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter.

• Fred Alan Wolf
• Russ Tamblyn

  American dancer, actor of stage, film and radio.

• Tarcisio Bertone

  Italian ecclesiastic, Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of Genoa who condemned Dan Brown's novel, "The DaVinci Code," declaring that...

• Giancarlo Baghetti

  Italian race-car driver in Formula One.

• Del Shannon

  American singer, one of the early rockers who wrote his own material.

• Jimmy Grimes
• Stjepan Mesic

  president of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement and president of Croatia.

• Rudi Carrell

  Dutch entertainer.

• Richard D Zanuck

  American film producer.

• Claudio Scimone

  Italian musician and founder of the chamber music group "Solisti Veneti.

• Marc Rich

  Belgium financier and American fugitive, pardoned by Bill Clinton on his last few hours in office for accusations of fraud.

• Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado
• Ed Flanders

  Actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere), commits suicide at 60.

• Pierre Bouteiller

  French radio and television journalist.

• John McCracken

  American artist and sculptor, an exponent of Minimalism.

• Herb Gardner
• David Pearson

  American stock car racer.

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Famous Deaths

• Bernhard Seklas

  Composer, dies at 62.

• Maggis Lena Walker

  1st US (black) woman to head a bank, dies at 69.

• Sergei Kirov

  Russian revolutionary (Born 1886).

• Charles James O'Donnell

  Irish politician (Born 1849).

• Duke Charles Michael of Mecklenburg

  head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Born 1863).

• Thorleif Haug

  Norwegian Nordic skier (Born 1894).

• Thomas A Watson

  American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell (Born 1854).

• Alma Tell

  American stage and film actress (Born 1898).

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1. Glen Gray & Casa Loma Orchestra - The Object of My Affection
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