1934

The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established.

15 – Austrian Civil War: The Fatherland Front consolidates its power in a series of clashes across the country.

Prime Minister Konstantin Päts stages a self-coup by declaring a state of emergency in Estonia, with the approval of the parliament, beginning the country's Era of Silence.

The "surgeon's photograph" of the Loch Ness Monster, taken in Scotland by London gynaecologist Robert Kenneth Wilson and in 1994 admitted to be a hoax, is published in the Daily Mail London national newspaper.

Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne, becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.

The Indian Reorganization Act is enacted.

Hitler gives a speech to the Reichstag, justifying his purge.

1934 German referendum: In a referendum, 90% of the German population approves of Hitler's assumption of presidential powers, as Führer and Reichskanzler.

Bruno Richard Hauptmann is arrested in connection with the Lindbergh kidnapping case in the U.S.

Events of October the 6th: the President of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, declares the Catalan State of the Spanish Federal Republic, but Spanish troops swiftly crush the Catalan forces, and arrest him and the members of the Catalan government. The autonomy of Catalonia is suspended until 1936.

Attempted exclusion of Egon Kisch from Australia begins.

Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.