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1934 in the United States
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1910s 1920s – 1930s – 1940s 1950s
Years:	1931 1932 1933 – 1934 – 1935 1936 1937
Flag:	48 stars; (1912 – 1959)

Events from the year 1934 in the United States.

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January 24 – Albert Einstein visits the White House.
January 26 – The Apollo Theater opens in Harlem, New York City.
February 22 – Frank Capra's It Happened One Night , starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, is released. It becomes a smash hit and the first of Capra's great screen classics. It becomes the first film to win all 5 of the major Academy Awards – Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. Gable and Colbert receive their only Oscars for this film.
March 3 – John Dillinger escapes from jail in Crown Point, Indiana, using a wooden pistol.
March 13 – John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and their gang rob the First National Bank in Mason City, Iowa.
March 24 – The Philippine Commonwealth becomes established allowing for more self-government from the United States.

April 1 – Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker kill 2 young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.
April 12 – U.S. publication of the novel Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
April 12 – The worlds largest ever recorded surface wind speed of 231 miles per hour (372 km/h) was recorded on the summit of Mount Washington (New Hampshire).
April 14 – Black Sunday: Twenty of the worst dust storms within the Dust Bowl occur.
April 22 – John Dillinger and two others shoot their way out of an FBI ambush in northern Wisconsin.
May 11 – Dust Bowl: A strong 2-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl.
May 15 – The United States Department of Justice offers a $25,000 reward for John Dillinger.
May 23 – A team of police officers, led by Texas Ranger Cordell Walker, ambush bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow near their hide-out in Black Lake, Louisiana, killing them both.
May 24 – The 5-day "Battle of Toledo" occurs during the Auto-Lite strike in Toledo, Ohio.
June 6 – New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

July 1 – The world famous Brookfield Zoo opens in Brookfield, Illinois.
July 1 – The Hays Office censorship code for motion pictures goes into full effect in the United States.
July 17 – The North Dakota Supreme Court declares Lieutenant Governor Ole H. Olson the legitimate governor and tells William Langer to resign. Langer proceeds to declare North Dakota independent. He revokes the declaration after the Supreme Court justices meet him.
July 22 – Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
August 19 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
August 25 – Anti-union vigilantes seize the town of McGuffey, Ohio, during the Hardin County onion pickers strike.
September 8 – Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner Morro Castle kills 134 people.

October 22 – "Pretty Boy" Floyd is shot and killed by FBI agents near East Liverpool, Ohio.
November 20–21 – Business Plot: An alleged coup to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt is investigated by the McCormack-Dickstein Committee and is reported by the Philadelphia Record.
November 21 – Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes, starring Ethel Merman, premieres in New York City.
November 26 – Universal Pictures releases the first film version of Fannie Hurst's novel, Imitation of Life, starring Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers. It gives Beavers, usually featured in small roles as a maid, her best screen role, and features the largest supporting role played by a black person in a Hollywood film up till then. Its storyline is extremely daring for a 1934 film – part of it revolves around a young mulatto girl rejecting her mother and trying to "pass for white". It is the first Hollywood film to seriously deal with this subject. The 1936 film version of Show Boat, also from Universal, will deal with a similar storyline.
November 27 – A running gun battle between FBI agents and bank robber Baby Face Nelson results in the death of one FBI agent and the mortal wounding of special agent Samuel P. Cowley, who was still able to mortally wound Nelson.
December 26 – An American Airlines aircraft crashes in the Adirondack Mountains.
December 29 – Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.

The U.S. Marines leave Haiti.
US Congress makes the Philippines a self-governing commonwealth and schedules independence for 1944. Sugar imports are reduced and immigration is limited to 50 Filipino people per year.