1934

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1934 was the 63rd year after the founding of the City of Birmingham. It occurred in the midst of the Great Depression, during which Birmingham was particularly hard-hit.

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  • Miss Alabama:
  • Osburn Zuber's editorial, "Why We Have Lynching in the South", earned honorable mention from the Pulitzer committee.
  • William Warren was elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

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President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Gold Reserve Act and set a statutory price of $35 per ounce. Bruno Hauptman was arrested and charged for kidnaping Augustus Lindbergh Jr. A fabricated photograph, purported to show the Loch Ness Monster, was published in London's Daily Mail. The German Nazi party purged its left-wing membership by murder and Adolf Hitler took the title of Führer, with the nation's military swearing personal allegiance to him. 90% of Germans voting in an August 19 referendum approved of the change, celebrated at the 6th Nuremberg Rally. Persia was renamed Iran.

Arthur Henderson was awarded the Nobel Peace Price for chairing the Geneva Disarmament Conference. Italy won the World Cup over Czechoslovakia. "It Happened One Night" dominated the Academy Awards while the technicolor musical "Kid Millions" led the box office. "Flash Gordon" debuted on comics pages. Notable literary works included Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, I, Claudius by Robert Graves. The St Louis Cardinals defeated the Detroit Tigers in the World Series. Horton Smith won the first Master's golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia.

Notable figures born in 1934 include actors Alan Arkin, Brigitte Bardot, Judi Dench and Florence Henderson; architect Michael Graves; baseball player Roberto Clemente; consumer activist Ralph Nader; cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin; cult leader Charles Manson; fashion designer Giorgio Armani; feminist Gloria Steinem; film director Sydney Pollack; inventor Robert Moog; musicians Pat Boone, Leonard Cohen, Dave Grusin, Del Shannon, and Frankie Valli; Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega; writers Joan Didion and Audre Lorde; and zoologist Jane Goodall.

Notable deaths in 1934 included those of King Albert I of Belgium; King Alexander of Yugoslavia; animator Winsor McCay; composers Louis Gottschalk and Gustav Holst; scientist Marie Curie; and outlaws John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.

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