Timeline June 1934

Events in June 1934 15

• 1862 – 1934 Frederick Delius (1862-1934) Died 10 June 1934, aged 72 English composer of works including On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring and A Mass of Life. After he lost his sight, he dictated his late works to his amanuensis Eric Fenby.
• 1862 – 1934 Gustav von Kahr (1862-1934) Died 30 June 1934, aged 71 Bavarian politician who suppressed Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. He was murdered at Dachau during the Night of the Long Knives in revenge.
• 1882 – 1934 Kurt von Schleicher (1882-1934) Died 30 June 1934, aged 52 German general and the last Chancellor of the Weimar Republic before Hitler. SS men shot him and his wife at their home during the Night of the Long Knives.
• 1892 – 1934 Gregor Strasser (1892-1934) Died 30 June 1934, aged 42 Leading early Nazi organiser and head of the party's left wing, who broke with Hitler in 1932. He was murdered in a Gestapo cell during the Night of the Long Knives.
• 1931 – 1934 King's College, Cambridge Mathematics, and room to be himself Turing reads mathematics at King's, graduating with first-class honours. King's in the 1930s is unusually tolerant, and it is the closest thing to a home he has. He runs long distances, works alone, and reads von Neumann on quantum mechanics.
• 1934 1934 FIFA World Cup First European Host The first tournament to feature a qualification stage. Winner: Italy.
• 1934 French Open 1934 Men: Gottfried von Cramm · Women: Margaret Scriven
• 1934 Securities and Exchange Commission created Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Securities Exchange Act, which created the SEC to regulate stock markets after the 1929 crash. Joseph P. Kennedy became its first chairman.
• 1934 Donald Duck debuts Disney's duck first appears in The Wise Little Hen Donald Duck made his first screen appearance in the Silly Symphony cartoon The Wise Little Hen, voiced by Clarence Nash. He became one of Disney's most popular characters.
• 1934 Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice First meeting of the two dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met for the first time at Stra and Venice. The talks went badly, mainly over Austria, and relations stayed cool until 1936.
• 1934 Great Smoky Mountains National Park established Congress authorises full development of the park The Great Smoky Mountains National Park was established on the border of Tennessee and North Carolina. It later became the most visited national park in the United States.
• 1934 Indian Reorganization Act The Indian New Deal reverses allotment policy The Wheeler–Howard Act ended the allotment of Native American tribal lands and encouraged tribal self-government. It was the centrepiece of the Indian New Deal led by Commissioner John Collier.
• 1934 Communications Act creates the FCC Federal regulation of radio, telephone and telegraph The Communications Act of 1934 replaced the Federal Radio Commission with the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC took over regulation of interstate wire and radio communications.
• 1934 Turkish Surname Law All Turkish citizens required to adopt surnames The Grand National Assembly required every Turkish citizen to take a fixed family name and abolished honorifics such as pasha and bey. In November the assembly gave Mustafa Kemal the surname Atatürk.
• 1934 Night of the Long Knives Hitler purges the SA leadership and political rivals Hitler ordered the SS and Gestapo to kill Ernst Röhm and the SA leadership along with conservative opponents, including former chancellor Kurt von Schleicher. At least 85 people were killed. The purge secured the support of the army for the Nazi regime.