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  • Germany
    Jul, 1934
    Heinrich Himmler

    Night of the Long Knives

    Germany
    Jul, 1934

    Hitler decided on 21 June that Röhm and the SA leadership had to be eliminated. He sent Göring to Berlin on 29 June, to meet with Himmler and Heydrich to plan the action. Hitler took charge in Munich, where Röhm was arrested; he gave Röhm the choice to commit suicide or be shot. When Röhm refused to kill himself, he was shot dead by two SS officers.




  • Passy, France
    Wednesday Jul 4, 1934
    Marie Curie

    Death

    Passy, France
    Wednesday Jul 4, 1934

    on 4 July 1934, she died at the Sancellemoz sanatorium in Passy, Haute-Savoie, from aplastic anemia believed to have been contracted from her long-term exposure to radiation.




  • New York, U.S.
    Wednesday Jul 11, 1934
    Nikola Tesla

    New York Herald Tribune published an article on Tesla

    New York, U.S.
    Wednesday Jul 11, 1934

    On 11 July 1934, the New York Herald Tribune published an article on Tesla, in which he recalled an event that occasionally took place while experimenting with his single-electrode vacuum tubes. A minute particle would break off the cathode, pass out of the tube, and physically strike him: Tesla said he could feel a sharp stinging pain where it entered his body, and again at the place where it passed out. In comparing these particles with the bits of metal projected by his "electric gun," Tesla said, "The particles in the beam of force ... will travel much faster than such particles ... and they will travel in concentrations".




  • Berlin, Germany
    Jul, 1934
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels gained control of radio stations nationwide

    Berlin, Germany
    Jul, 1934

    Goebbels gained control of radio stations nationwide and placed them under the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (German National Broadcasting Corporation) in July 1934.




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