February 1934

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The following events occurred in February 1934:

February 1, 1934 (Thursday)

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  • Greece failed to deport the American fugitive businessman Samuel Insull by January 31 as pledged, leaving the condition of the case unclear.[1] The United States government had the invalidated passport of Insull, who was reportedly ill, renewed in order to expedite his departure.[2]

February 2, 1934 (Friday)

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  • 100,000 farmers paraded in Vienna in support of Chancellor Dollfuss.[3]
  • Monarchist organizations were banned in Germany.[4]
  • In Needham, Massachusetts, Abraham Faber and Murton and Irving Millen, who had committed multiple robberies in Massachusetts during the previous six months, robbed the Needham Trust Company bank and took hostages. While escaping in a vehicle, the robbers shot and killed Patrolman Forbes A. McLeod of the Needham Police Department. The robbers entered Needham Heights, where they saw Patrolman Francis Oliver Haddock speaking with a uniformed firefighter at the fire station. Upon seeing two men in uniform, one of the robbers fired a machine gun, mortally wounding Haddock, the first person ever killed with a machine gun in Massachusetts. Faber and the Millens were subsequently convicted of murder and executed.[5][6][7]
  • Born: Khalil Ullah Khan, film actor, in Sylhet, British India (d. 2014)

February 3, 1934 (Saturday)

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  • The German airline Lufthansa began air mail service to South America.[8]
  • French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier dismissed three cabinet ministers as well as Prefect of Police for Paris Jean Chiappe.[9]
  • 12,000 New York City taxicab drivers went on strike over the distribution of the proceeds from a discontinued five-cent tax on their fares.[10]
  • North of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, law enforcement officers approached a house where three armed robbers, Aussie Elliott, Eldon Wilson and Dupert Carolin, were hiding out. Sapulpa Chief of Police Thomas Jefferson Brumley was shot and killed as he approached the rear of the house by Carolin, who was hiding in the cellar. Other officers shot and killed Elliott and mortally wounded Wilson as they came out the front door. Carolin tried to escape and engaged in a running gun battle with the police, shooting and killing Sapulpa Officer Charles P. Lloyd and himself being shot to death by Lloyd and other officers.[11][12][13]
  • Died:

February 4, 1934 (Sunday)

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  • Demonstrators in Paris began protesting against Daladier's removal of Jean Chiappe.[14]
  • Cuba adopted a new provisional constitution.[15]

February 5, 1934 (Monday)

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  • Mounted French troops clashed with thousands of angry war veterans enraged by the removal of popular police prefect Jean Chiappe.[16]
  • Lord Ashley filed suit for divorce from wife Sylvia, naming Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. as co-respondent.[17]
  • Rioting broke out in the streets of New York over the cab driver strike as strikers fought with police and burned independent cabs.[10]
  • In Paris, the Surrealist group led by André Breton put Salvador Dalí on "trial" for his troubling interest in Hitler as well as his painting The Enigma of William Tell. The painting depicted a deformed, semi-nude figure bearing the facial features of Vladimir Lenin, something that failed to amuse the Surrealists as many of them were communists. Dalí made a mockery of the proceedings by showing up with a thermometer in his mouth and seven thick sweaters on, which he proceeded to remove one at a time and put on again while taking his temperature. With one sweater left, Dalí told Breton that if he dreamed that night of the two of them making love to each other, he would not hesitate to paint the scene the next morning in great detail ("I don't advise it, my friend", was all Breton managed to say in response.) Then, stripping to the waist, Dalí knelt on the carpet and swore that he was no enemy of the proletariat, ending the bizarre event.[18][19][20]
  • Born: Hank Aaron, baseball player, in Mobile, Alabama (d. 2021)

February 6, 1934 (Tuesday)

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February 7, 1934 (Wednesday)

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February 8, 1934 (Thursday)

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February 9, 1934 (Friday)

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February 10, 1934 (Saturday)

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February 11, 1934 (Sunday)

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  • The prison terms of 140,000 convicts in Japan were commuted. Death sentences were changed to life imprisonment and life sentences were cut down to 20 years, among other reductions. The birth in December of Crown Prince Akihito was one reason for the amnesty.[25]
  • The United Kingdom and Yemen signed a treaty of friendship.[26]
  • Canada defeated the United States 2-1 in overtime in the World Ice Hockey Championship Final.
  • Born: Tina Louise, actress and singer, in New York City; John Surtees, racer, in Tatsfield, Surrey, England (d. 2017)

February 12, 1934 (Monday)

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February 13, 1934 (Tuesday)

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February 14, 1934 (Wednesday)

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February 15, 1934 (Thursday)

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February 16, 1934 (Friday)

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February 17, 1934 (Saturday)

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  • Britain, France and Italy released a joint statement guaranteeing Austria's "independence and integrity in accordance with the relevant treaties." A German spokesperson responded, "The prerequisite of independence is that people shall have a government which they themselves desire. It logically follows that independence is in danger if and when attempts are made to prevent people from having a government they want. Austria should have a government which has the nation behind it."[36]
  • Born: Alan Bates, actor, in Allestree, Derbyshire, England (d. 2003); Barry Humphries, actor and comedian, in Kew, Melbourne, Australia (d. 2023)
  • Died: Albert I of Belgium, 58, King of the Belgians (mountaineering accident)

February 18, 1934 (Sunday)

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February 19, 1934 (Monday)

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February 20, 1934 (Tuesday)

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February 21, 1934 (Wednesday)

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February 22, 1934 (Thursday)

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February 23, 1934 (Friday)

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February 24, 1934 (Saturday)

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February 25, 1934 (Sunday)

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  • Over 1 million Nazi leaders and sub-leaders swore allegiance to Hitler over the radio in a ceremony presided over by Rudolf Hess.[49]
  • Died: John McGraw, 60, American baseball player and manager

February 26, 1934 (Monday)

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  • 5 were killed and 40 injured in Pittsburgh when a train plummeted off a 30-foot (9.1 m) high viaduct.[50]

February 27, 1934 (Tuesday)

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February 28, 1934 (Wednesday)

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  3. ^ Darrah, David (February 3, 1934). "100,000 Farmers Hail Dolfuss; Parade in Vienna". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 4.
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  24. ^ "Lithuania Jails 20 in Memel as Nazi Plotters". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 11, 1934. p. 6.
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