LIFE 1934
Historical Highlights from 1934 :
- Hitler becomes Führer when chancellorship and presidency are united.
- Federal Communications Commission is established to regulate communications.
- Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow ambushed and killed by lawmen in Louisiana.
- Dust storms ruin about 100 million acres and damage another 200 million acres of cropland in Kansas, Texas, Colorado, and Oklahoma.
- It Happened One Night sweeps the Academy Awards, winning Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Actress.
- John Dillinger escapes from jail in Crown Point, Indiana, using a wooden pistol.
- “Pretty Boy” Floyd is shot and killed by FBI agents near East Liverpool, Ohio.
- Cole Porter’s musical Anything Goes, starring Ethel Merman, premieres.
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