What Happened In May 1934 In History

Historical Events for May, 1934

• 5th » The first Three Stooges short, 'Woman Haters,' is released.
• 15th » Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
• 21st » Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
• 23rd » The American Bank robbery named bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.
• 23rd » The Auto-Lite strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.
• 28th » Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first Multiple birth or quintuplets to survive Infant called infancy.

Famous Birthdays on May in 1934

• 1st » Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Mexican politician
• 1st » Shirley Horn, American singer and pianist (d. 2005)
• 1st » Phillip King (artist) e.g Phillip King, English sculptor
• 3rd » Henry Cooper, English boxer (d. 2011)
• 3rd » Georges Moustaki, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 3rd » Frankie Valli, American singer and actor (The Four Seasons (group) e.g The Four Seasons and The Wonder Who?)
• 4th » Tatiana Samoilova, Russian actress (d. 2014)
• 5th » Ace Cannon, American saxophonist
• 5th » Victor Garland, Australian politician
• 5th » Johnnie Taylor, American singer (d. 2000)
• 6th » Richard Shelby, American lawyer and politician
• 8th » Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann, South African-English judge
• 8th » Maurice Norman, English footballer
• 8th » David Williamson, Baron Williamson of Horton, English soldier and politician
• 9th » Alan Bennett, English actor, screenwriter, and author
• 9th » Nathan Dean, American politician (d. 2013)
• 9th » Roy Massey (musician) or Roy Massey, English organist and conductor
• 10th » Jeanine Basinger, American historian and educator
• 10th » Sir William Lithgow, 2nd Baronet, Scottish businessman
• 10th » Richard Peck (writer) known as Richard Peck, American author
• 10th » Cliff Wilson, Welsh snooker player (d. 1994)
• 11th » Jim Jeffords, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 2014)
• 11th » Arthur Labatt, Canadian businessman and academic
• 13th » Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist (d. 2010)
• 13th » Leon Wagner, American baseball player and actor (d. 2004)
• 16th » Kenneth O. Morgan, Welsh historian and author
• 16th » Anthony Walker (British Army officer) named Anthony Walker, English general
• 17th » Friedrich-Wilhelm Kiel, German politician
• 17th » Earl Morrall, American football player (d. 2014)
• 17th » Ronald Wayne, American computer scientist, co-founded Apple Inc.
• 18th » Dwayne Hickman, American actor and director
• 19th » Ruskin Bond, Indian author
• 19th » Bill Fitch, American basketball player and coach
• 19th » Jim Lehrer, American journalist and author
• 21st » Jocasta Innes, Chinese-English journalist and author (d. 2013)
• 21st » Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize laureate
• 22nd » Don Cupitt, English priest, philosopher, and theologian
• 22nd » Peter Nero, American pianist and conductor
• 23rd » Robert Moog, American businessman, invented the Moog synthesizer (d. 2005)
• 24th » Jane Byrne, American politician, 50th Mayor of Chicago
• 24th » Barry Rose, English organist and conductor
• 27th » Ray Daviault, Canadian-American baseball player
• 27th » Harlan Ellison, American author and screenwriter
• 28th » Bill Baillie, New Zealand runner
• 29th » Grandma Lee, American comedian
• 29th » Nanette Newman, English actress and author
• 29th » Bill Vander Zalm, Canadian politician, 28th Premier of British Columbia
• 30th » Alexey Leonov, Russian general and astronaut
• 30th » Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and manager (d. 2012)
• 31st » Jim Hutton, American actor (d. 1979)

Famous Deaths for May 1934

• 11th » Blaise Diagne, Senegalese-French politician (b. 1872)
• 11th » Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852)
• 14th » Lou Criger, American baseball player (b. 1872)
• 14th » Baikuntha Shukla, Indian murderer (b. 1907)
• 23rd » Bonnie and Clyde Clyde Barrow named Clyde Barrow, American criminal (b. 1909)
• 23rd » Mihkel Martna, Estonian journalist and politician (b. 1860)
• 23rd » Bonnie and Clyde Bonnie Parker or Bonnie Parker, American criminal (b. 1910)
• 25th » Gustav Holst, English trombonist, composer, and educator (b. 1874)
• 30th » Tōgō Heihachirō, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)

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