- January 26
- Germany and Poland sign a ten-year Declaration of Non-Aggression. [10]
- January 27
- French government of Chautemps falls (Stavisky Affair). [1]
- VARA refuses to hire after commemoration of Marinus Van de Lubbe. [1]
- January 30
- Adolf Hitler makes proclamation on German unified states. [1]
- In Moscow, Russia, the USSR launches the Osoaviakhim balloon, reaching record 72,178 feet, but crashes on landing 70 miles from Moscow, killing the crew. [985.341]
- January 31
- US President Franklin Roosevelt devalues the dollar by 40.94 percent in relation to gold by raising price to $35 per ounce (was $20.67 since 1837). [1] [500.F7] [656.65] [682.36] [772.52]
- February 1
- Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his own. [1]
- February 2
- Dutch Roman Catholic Bishops warn against fascism/Nazism. [1]
- February 8
- Gaston Doumergue forms new French government. [1]
- February 9
- Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, and Romania). [1]
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- February 10
- First Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine. [1]
- Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier". [1]
- February 12
- France hit by a general strike against fascists and royalists. [1]
- February 13
- Austrian Engelbert Dollfuss government bans socialistic party. [1]
- February 16
- Over Texas, USA, a pilot swerves to avoid crashing with a fireball. [521]
- February 17
- Albert I LCMM von Saksen-Coburg, King of Belgium (1909-34), dies at age 58. [1]
- February 18
- In Seville, Spain, a house is struck by a falling meteorite and burns. [521]
- February 21
- Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by National Guard. [1]
- February 23
- Coronation of King Leopold III of Belgium. [1]
- March 1
- Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria. [1]
- March 8
- Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars. [1]
- March 12
- Acting President Constantine Päts commits coup in Tallinn Estonia. [1]
- March 17
- Austrian Engelbert Dollfuss, Italian Benito Mussolini and Gömbös sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome). [1]
- March 20
- Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Kiel, Germany. [1]
- March 22
- Fire destroys Hakodate, Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000). [1]
- March 23
- US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945. [1]
- March 26
- The automobile driving test is first introduced in the United Kingdom. [1] [5]
- March 29
- Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's movement, goes bankrupt. [1]
- April 6
- 418 Lutheran ministers are arrested in Germany. [1]
- April 7
- In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspends his campaign of civil disobedience. [1]
- April 18
- Adolf Hitler names Joachim von Ribbentrop ambassador for disarmament. [1]
- April 20
- Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector of Prussian secret state police. [1]
- April 28
- Spanish government of Samper forms. [1]
- April 30
- Austria gets "Austrian fascist" constitution. [1]
- May 1
- Austria signs pact with Vatican. [1]
- Philippine legislature accepts US proposal for independence. [1]
- May 5
- The 1932 non-aggression pact betwen the Soviet Union and Poland is extended to the end of 1945. [10]
- May 7
- Netherlands' Princess Juliana opens Juliana Canal. [1]
- Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autonomous Region. [1]
- Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White). [1]
- World's largest pearl (6.4kg) found at Palawan, Philippines. [1]
- May 10
- Cunard Line and White Star Line are amalgamated as the Cunard White Star Line. [274.7]
- May 11
- Over two days, the most severe dust storm to date in the USA sweeps an estimated 350 million tons of topsoil from the Great Plains across to the eastern seaboard. [129]
- May 15
- Karlis Ulmanis names himself fascist dictator of Latvia. [1]
- May 19
- Military coup by Colonel Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria. [1]
- May 23
- Texas and Louisiana state police shoot to death notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow near Sailes, Louisiana. The Barrow Gang was believed responsible for the deaths of 13 people, including nine police officers. [1] [129]
- Wallace Carothers manufactures first nylon (polymeer 66). [1]
- May 24
- Colombia and Peru sign accord about harbor city Leticia. [1]
- June 3
- Dr Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted. [1]
- June 9
- The Walt Disney Silly Symphony film The Wise Little Hen is released to theaters in the USA. Donald Duck makes his film debut, with a voice supplied by Clarence Nash. [1] [6]
- June 19
- US Congress pases the Silver Purchase Act, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase silver until market price reaches $1.2929 per ounce, or until value of silver stock reaches one-third of gold stock. [588.72]
- June 24
- In Germany, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Reinhard Heydrich begin planning the murders of opponents to prevent a supposed putsch by the SA. [10]
- June 30
- In Germany, two days of officially instigated murders begin. Between 100 and 2000 opponents of Adolf Hitler are killed. Heinrich Himmler's Schutzstaffel (SS) kill mostly Sturm Abteilung (SA) leaders, including head Ernst Roehm. The period becomes known as the "Night of the Long Knives". [10] [861.21]
- French Equitorial Africa constitutes a single administrative unit. [1]
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- The Rumuruti meteorite falls in Kenya. [523.93]
- July 1
- First x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, New York. [1]
- July 4
- Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design for the atomic bomb. [5]
- July 10
- First sitting US president to visit South America, Franklin Roosevelt in Colombia. [1]
- July 11
- Franklin Roosevelt becomes first US president to travel through Panama Canal. [1]
- July 25
- Nazis assassinate Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria. [10]
- August 2
- First airplane train, plane tows three mail gliders behind it. [1]
- In Germany, following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Adolf Hitler assumes the office of Reich President as well. The Wehrmacht oath of allegiance is changed to be directly to Adolf Hitler. [10]
- August 15
- US ends occupation of Haiti (been there since 1915). [1144.246] [1166.247]
- August 16
- US explorer William Beebe descends 3,028 feet (1922 m) in Bathysphere. [1]
- August 19
- Plebiscite in Germany approves sole executive power to Adolf Hitler. [1]
- September 3
- Tunisia begins its move for independence. [1]
- September 8
- Ward Line's American luxury liner Morro Castle (11,500 tons) burns off New Jersey, killing 133-137 of 547 total passengers and crew. On September 7, Captain Robert R. Wilmott was found dead in his cabin of an apparent heart attack. The fire, which started in a locker, may have been started by wireless operator George White Rogers. The burned out hulk runs aground near the boardwalk of Asbury Park, New Jersey. 50 years earlier, the Daily Spray newspaper of Asbury Park suggested the city needed a shipwreck as a tourist attraction. [1] [260.99] [809.50] [1097.838]
- September 12
- Baltic Pact signed by Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia. [1]
- September 17
- First 33 1/3 rpm recording released (Beethoven's 5th Symphony). [1]
- September 21
- Typhoon strikes Honshu Island, Japan, kills 4,000. [1]
- September 26
- British ocean liner RMS Queen Mary is launched; 80,700 tons, 1018-foot hull, 2139 passengers. The launch ceremony is performed by Queen Mary. [1] [5] [260.60] [274.13,37]
- September 28
- Over California, USA, a pilot escapes a fireball shower. [521]
- October 9
- While being driven through the streets of Marseilles, France, King Alexander of Yugoslavia is shot and killed by Georgief, an ethnic Bulgarian. The chauffeur is also killed, and the French Foreign Minister is wounded. [1] [1268.86]
- October 31
- The Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago closes. Over the two years, there were 38,867,000 visitors. [410.84]
- November 1
- In Great Britain, Winston Churchill speaks to his constituency: "Germany is arming, secretly, illegally, and rapidly.". [10]
- November 30
- The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph. [5]
- December 1
- Sergei M Kirov, Josef Stalin's collaborator, is assassinated in Leningrad. [1]
- December 3
- Italian colonial Tripoli and Cyrenaica annexed to Libya. [1]
- December 7
- Wiley Post discovers the jet stream. [1]
- December 10
- Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp. [1]
- Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite. [1]
- December 19
- Japan agress to fleet treaty of 1922 and 1930. [1]
- December 22
- First flight from Netherlands to Curaçao (Christmas flight 1934). [1]
- December 27
- Shah of Persia declares Persia now Iran. [1]
- December 29
- Japan renounces Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and London Treaty of 1930. [1]
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