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Key Events and Figures of 1934

This quiz explores significant events and notable figures from the year 1934, providing an engaging way to test your knowledge of history.

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1 January 10 – Marinus van der Lubbe is executed in ________.

2 Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in ________.

3 ________ – Tom Baker, British actor (Doctor Who)

4 May 25 – ________, English composer (The Planets) (b.

5 August 8 – The Wehrmacht swears a personal oath of loyalty to ________.

6 ________ – Anatoli Solonitsyn, Russian actor (d.

7 ________ – Sergei Kirov, Soviet politician (b.

8 ________ – Sophia Loren, Italian actress

9 The world famous ________ opens in Brookfield, Illinois.

10 September 4 – ________, Welsh-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • in 1934 Leonid Nikolaev was executed for the murder of Sergei Kirov, the popular chief of the Leningrad Communist Party.
  • it took thirty railway cars to move the Fersman Mineralogical Museum collections from Saint Petersburg to Moscow in 1934.
  • the 18th century Governor's Palace, originally completed in 1722 and last occupied by Thomas Jefferson in 1780, was carefully reconstructed, opening in 1934 as one of the two larger buildings at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.
  • during the Hardin County onion pickers strike in 1934, anti-union vigilantes seized control of the town of McGuffey, Ohio, for a day.
  • during the "dawn-to-dusk" publicity run for the CB&Q's Pioneer Zephyr on May 26, 1934, the train reached a top speed of 112.5 mph (181 kph).
  • Serge Chermayeff and Erich Mendelsohn designed the De La Warr Pavilion in 1934, and that the Pavilion is a significant work in the British modernist movement of architecture.
  • after former House representative John H. Burke was not a candidate for renomination in 1934, he went back to his home in Long Beach, California and became a real estate broker.
  • Ernst Kitzinger, a historian of Byzantine art, was forced to leave Germany in 1934 and England in 1940 because he was Jewish and German respectively.
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