1934 in the United Kingdom

1934 in the United Kingdom:
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Events from the year 1934 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Monarch - George V
Prime Minister - Ramsay MacDonald (national coalition)

Events

1 January - Establishment of The National Council for Civil Liberties by Ronald Kidd and Sylvia Crowther-Smith.^[1]
21 January - Ten thousand people attend a British Union of Fascists rally in Birmingham, organised by Oswald Mosley.^[2] ***16. Jan. Paul brittain piano player first radio broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke on trent regional
27 March - The 1934 Betting and Lotteries Act is passed. Part 1 (betting) is designed to restrict betting on racecourses and tracks to a maximum of 104 days.^[3] Part 2 (lotteries) prohibits the sale of lottery tickets, primarily directed against the Irish Free State Hospitals' Sweepstake.^[4]^[5]
April
- Meccano Ltd introduce the first Dinky Toys.
- David Low's cartoon character Colonel Blimp first appears in the London Evening Standard.^[6]
3 April - Percy Shaw patents the cat's eye road-safety device.^[7]
6 April - Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.
21 April - The "surgeon's photograph" of the Loch Ness Monster, much later admitted to be a hoax, is published in the Daily Mail.^[8]
4 May - Fifty-four-year-old grandmother Mrs G. E. Alington becomes the first woman in Britain to complete a parachute jump, skydiving from 1500 feet over Brooklands Aerodrome:
8 may. Bbc Droitwich national transmitter 200KHTZ. Starts test tx
28 May - Opening of first Glyndebourne Festival Opera season.
29 May - First regular domestic airmail service, inaugurated by Highland Airways between Inverness and Kirkwall.^[9]
12 July - Petroleum (Production) Act vests ownership of all U.K. subterranean oil and natural gas in the Crown.
18 July - Opening of the Queensway Tunnel beneath the River Mersey by King George V.^[10]
19 July - 41 squadrons added to the Royal Air Force as part of a new air defence program.^[2]
4–11 August - British Empire Games held at White City, London.
6 September - The BBC's most powerful long-wave transmitter, Droitwich Transmitting Station, starts transmitting at 200 kilohertz.^[11]
10 September - The British Graham Land Expedition sets out to explore Graham Land in Antarctica.
22 September - Gresford Disaster: A gas explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wrexham, north-east Wales, which leads to the death of 266 miners and rescuers,^[10] one of the worst tragedies in Welsh mining history.
26 September - Launching of the liner RMS Queen Mary^[10] at Clydebank.
29 September - Stanley Matthews makes his debut for the England national football team, beginning a record 23-year international career.
29 November - Marriage of Prince George, Duke of Kent, to Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, the first this century, and last, foreign-born princess to marry into the British royal family; the wedding is the first to be broadcast live on radio.^[10]
30 November - London and North Eastern Railway steam locomotive Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first officially to exceed 100 miles per hour (160.9 km/h) on test in England.^[12]
10 December - Arthur Henderson wins the Nobel Peace Prize.^[13]

Undated

Special Areas Act provides grants from central government funds to assist regions with high unemployment.^[14]
The "British Committee for Relations with Other Countries", which will become the British Council, is set up to foster cultural relations.^[15]
The London Zoo penguin pool, designed by Berthold Lubetkin's Tecton Architectural Group with Ove Arup, one of the most significant examples of modern architecture in Britain.^[16]
EKCO introduces its distinctive round bakelite radio cabinets.

Publications

John Betjeman's guidebook Cornwall, first of the Shell Guides.
Agatha Christie's novels Murder on the Orient Express (featuring Hercule Poirot) and Why Didn't They Ask Evans?.
Robert Graves' novel I, Claudius.
James Hilton's novel Goodbye, Mr. Chips.
George Orwell's memoir Burmese Days.
J. B. Priestley's travelogue English Journey.^[17]
Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey novel The Nine Tailors.
Dylan Thomas' first collection 18 Poems, including "The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower".
[Geoffrey Trease]]'s children's story Bows against the Barons.
Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust.
P. G. Wodehouse's Thank You, Jeeves and Right Ho, Jeeves, the first Jeeves stories written as full-length novels.
V. M. Yeates' war novel Winged Victory.

Births

8 January - Roy Kinnear, actor (died 1988)
14 January - Richard Briers, actor (died 2013)
18 January - Raymond Briggs, writer and illustrator
20 January - Tom Baker, actor
11 February - Mary Quant, fashion designer
11 February - John Surtees, race car driver
17 February - Alan Bates, actor (died 2003)
25 February - Bernard Bresslaw, actor (died 1993)
28 March - Laurie Taitt, Olympic sprint hurdler (died 2006)
2 April - Brian Glover, actor and wrestler (died 1997)
3 April - Jane Goodall, zoologist
7 April - Ian Richardson, actor (died 2007)
16 April
- Richard Kershaw, journalist (died 2014)
- Geoffrey Owen, journalist, academic, and businessman
3 May - Henry Cooper, boxer (died 2011)
8 May - David Williamson, Baron Williamson of Horton, English soldier and politician
9 May
- Alan Bennett, actor and writer
- David Plastow, English businessman
15 May - George Roper, comedian (died 2003)
24 May - Barry Rose, choir director and organist
26 May - Mike Rawson, track and field athlete (died 2000)
21 June - Ken Matthews, race walker
26 June - Jeremy Wolfenden, journalist and spy (died 1965)
1 July - Jean Marsh, actress
5 July - Philip Madoc, actor (died 2012)
8 July - Marty Feldman, writer, comedian and actor (died 1982)
14 July - John Tyndall, politician (died 2005)
15 July - Harrison Birtwistle, composer
6 August - Chris Bonington, mountaineer
19 August - Ronald Jones, track and field athlete
4 September - Clive Granger, economist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)
8 September - Peter Maxwell Davies, composer (died 2016)
19 September - Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles (died 1967)
21 September - David J. Thouless, Scottish-born condensed-matter physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
24 September - Tommy Anderson, footballer
20 October - Timothy West, actor
9 December - Judi Dench, actress
28 December
- Alasdair Gray, writer and artist
- Maggie Smith, actress

Deaths

6 January - Herbert Chapman, football manager (born 1878)
23 January - Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway, politician and jurist (born 1850)
23 February - Sir Edward Elgar, composer (born 1857)
11 April - John Collier, writer and painter (born 1850)
25 May - Gustav Holst, composer (born 1874)
10 June - Frederick Delius, composer (born 1862)
10 September - George Henschel, musician (born 1850)
3 November - Sir Robert McAlpine, builder (born 1847)
16 November - Alice Hargreaves, who, as Alice Liddell, was the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (born 1852)

References

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1 2 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 378–379. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ "Betting and Lotteries Act, 1934" (PDF). Legislation.gov.uk.
↑ Coleman, Marie (2005). ""A terrible danger to the morals of the country": The Irish hospitals' sweepstake in Great Britain, 1930–87". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Section C. 105 (5). Retrieved 2010-07-08.
↑ Coleman, Marie (2009). The Irish Sweep — A History of the Irish Hospitals Sweepstake, 1930-87. University College Dublin Press. ISBN 978-1-906359-41-6.
↑ "David Low". British Cartoon Archive. Retrieved 2012-06-29.
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↑ Martin, David; Boyd, Alastair (1999). Nessie – the Surgeon's Photograph Exposed. East Barnet: authors. ISBN 0-9535708-0-0.
↑ Blake, Richard. The Book of Postal Dates, 1635-1985. Caterham: Marden. p. 29.
1 2 3 4 Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ Phillips, John (December 2006). "Droitwich Calling". Retrieved December 3, 2015.
↑ "No. 4472 Flying Scotsman". The Heritage Trail. Retrieved 2014-11-30.
↑ "The Nobel Peace Prize 1934". Archived from the original on 27 January 2007. Retrieved 6 February 2007.
↑ The History Today Companion to British History. London: Collins & Brown. 1995. p. 709. ISBN 1-85585-178-4.
↑ "1930s and 1940s". British Council. Retrieved 2011-02-17.
↑ "Berthold Lubetkin". Design Museum. Archived from the original on 25 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
↑ Marr, Andrew (2008). A History of Modern Britain. Macmillan. p. xxii. ISBN 978-0-330-43983-1.

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