1934 in the United Kingdom

1934 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936

Sport

1934 English cricket season

Football England | Scotland

Events from the year 1934 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Ramsay MacDonald, national coalition

Events

• 21 January - 10,000 people attend a British Union of Fascists rally in Birmingham, organised by Oswald Mosley.^[1]
• 3 April - Percy Shaw patents the cat's eye road-safety device.
• 6 April - Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.
• 19 April - Surgeon R.K. Wilson allegedly takes a photograph of the Loch Ness Monster.
• 18 July - opening of the Queensway Tunnel beneath the River Mersey by King George V.^[2]
• 19 July - 41 squadrons added to the Royal Air Force as part of a new air defence program.^[1]
• 4–11 August - 1934 British Empire Games held in London.
• 22 September - Gresford Disaster: A gas explosion took place at Gresford Colliery in Wrexham, north-east Wales which led to the death of 266 miners and rescuers.^[2] This was one of the worst tragedies in Welsh mining history.
• 26 September - Launching of the liner RMS Queen Mary.^[2]
• 29 November - Marriage of Prince George, Duke of Kent to Princess Marina; the wedding is the first to be broadcast live on radio.^[2]
• 10 December - Arthur Henderson wins the Nobel Peace Prize.^[3]

Undated

• The British Graham Land Expedition sets out to explore Graham Land in Antarctica.

Publications

• 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.
• Dorothy L. Sayers' novel The Nine Tailors.
• Evelyn Waugh's novel A Handful of Dust.

Births

• 8 January - Roy Kinnear, actor (died 1988)
• 14 January - Richard Briers, actor
• 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)
• 2 April - Brian Glover, actor and wrestler (died 1997)
• 3 April - Jane Goodall, zoologist
• 7 April - Ian Richardson, actor (died 2007)
• 3 May - Henry Cooper, boxer
• 9 May - Alan Bennett, actor and writer
• 14 May - Siân Phillips, actress
• 15 May - George Roper, comedian (died 2003)
• 24 May - Barry Rose, choir director and organist
• 26 May - Michael Rawson, track and field athlete
• 21 June - Kenneth Matthews, race walker
• 26 June - Jeremy Wolfenden, journalist (died 1965)
• 1 July - Jean Marsh, actress
• 5 July - Philip Madoc, actor
• 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
• 8 September - Peter Maxwell Davies, composer
• 19 September - Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles (died 1967)
• 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 - 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)
• 16 November - Alice Liddell, the schoolgirl who was the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (born 1852)

References

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