The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1934
Karen Blixen publishes her first stories under the name Isak Dinesen. (not in Africa) (Out of Africa)
Wednesday 23rd May: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are gunned down. (Texas) (Bonnie and Clyde)
Saturday 2nd June: Monty Stratton makes his Major League debut with the Chicago White Sox. (Chicago, Illinois) (The Stratton Story)
Friday 6th July: The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) appoints Joseph Breen head of the Production Code Administration. (The Aviator)
Wednesday 18th July: Public Enemy Number One, Sonny "Dinkie" Black, leader of the notorious Purple Gang, is gunned down by Federal Agents outside the Bijou Vaudeville Theater on Washington Street. (Milwaukee, WI) (Public Hero #1)
Sunday 22nd July: Outside the Biograph Theatre, notorious criminal John Dillinger - America's "Public Enemy No 1" - is killed in a hail of bullets by federal agents. (Chicago, Illinois) (Dillinger and Capone )
Monday 20th August: After wandering the world for 10 years, taking odd newspaper jobs in Calcutta, London, Paris and Melbourne, Sam Preston decides it's time to return to the family he abandoned in Silvertown, Colorado. (Shanghai, China) (Mary Jane's Pa)
Friday 5th October: Painter Eben Adams crashes on the rocks along the Land's End coast during a tidal storm only he expected; here he finds and again loses his supernatural muse, Jennie Appleton, to the overwhelming waves pounding the shore. (Land's End, Massachusetts) (Portrait of Jennie)
Monday 22nd October: "Pretty Boy" Floyd is killed by the FBI. (East Liverpool, Ohio) (Pretty Boy Floyd)