October 1934 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1934 Adolph Hitler expands German army and navy and creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles
• 02 Oct 1934 A tornado in Osaka and Kyoto kills 1,660, injures 5,400, and destroys the rice harvest.
• 05 Oct 1934 Miners rebel in Asturias, Spain (see Asturian miners' strike of 1934).
• 06 Oct 1934 Catalonian separatists rebel in Spain.
• 08 Oct 1934 Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son.
• 09 Oct 1934 Regicide at Marseille: The assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France.
• 14 Oct 1934 Lux Radio Theatre premieres
• 15 Oct 1934 The Soviet Republic of China collapses when Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army successfully encircles Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.
• 16 Oct 1934 Mao Tse-tung and 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March
• 17 Oct 1934 The Aldrich Family premieres on radio
• 18 Oct 1934 Chinese Red leader under Mao Tse Tung begins Long March
• 20 Oct 1934 All-Star team led by Babe Ruth and Connie Mack sails to Hawaii and Japan
• 22 Oct 1934 In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
• 23 Oct 1934 Jean Piccard and Jeanette Ridlen attain balloon height of 17.341 m
• 31 Oct 1934 The Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago closes. Over the two years, there were 38,867,000 visitors.

Famous Birthday

• Nana Mouskouri

  Greek singer and politician.

• Umberto Agnelli

  Italian noted family, the grandson of Giovanni, the founder of Fiat and the son of Edoardo who was killed in an aircraft accident...

• Sylvie Joly

  French actress and humorist, she often has performed in one-woman shows.

• Ulrike Meinhof

  Lead Germany Red Army Faction.

• Richard Meier

  American architect, winner of the Pritzker Prize, the highest accolade of architecture on 4/17/1984.

• Michiko Shoda
• Inger Stevens

  Swedish-American actress noted for her role in the TV series, "The Farmer's Daughter," in which she looked wholesome, fresh and warm.

• Pierre Fédida

  French psychoanalyst, who studied under Gilles Deleuze.

• Sean O'Donnell

  Irish parapsychologist who was involved in psychic research and the study of ESP from 1967.

• Jacqueline Dulac
• Alphee Lavoie

  American astrologer, programmer and author with 34 years experience by 1998.

• Marshall Rosenberg

  American psychologist and author (d. 2015).

• Barclay Twins

  British millionaire twins: David born at 6:00 PM and Frederick at 6:10 PM.

• Julio Jimenez
• Michael Dunn

  Shattuck, Oklahoma -- Actor (House of the Damned, Ship of Fools).

• Angelo Buono Jr
• Amiri Baraka

  American playright and Separatist Black leader, he was born to a social worker mom and a postal worker dad.

• Timothy West

  British actor known for masterful performances in which he portrayed such historic figures as Churchill, Stalin and Edward VII.

• Serge Kampf
• Nola Williams

  American astrologer, a consulting professional astrologer for "Contemporary Astrology" magazine and an international speaker.

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Famous Deaths

• Jean Vigo

  French film director, a creative genius known as film's Rimbaud.

• Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd

  Gangster, shot dead at 30 by FBI in Ohio.

• Gustavo Emilio Campa

  Composer, dies at 71.

• J-Louis-F Barthou

  French writer / Premier / foreign minister, murdered.

• King Alexander

  Of Yugoslavia, killed by Georgief (Croatian terrorist).

• Johan J Arch

  Graphic artist (houtgravures), dies at 63.

• Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Spanish histologist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1852).

• Pretty Boy Floyd

  American gangster (Born 1904).

• Louis Barthou

  French politician, a foreign minister and lawyer, he served as Prime Minister of the Third Republic in 1913.

• Raymond Poincare

  French statesman (Born 1860).

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