| January 1 | Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison |
| January 1 | Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, FDIC, U.S. bank guarantor, effective |
| January 1 | International Telecommunication Union established |
| January 2 | 1st state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania |
| January 2 | Bradman scores 253 NSW vs. Queensland, 204 minutes, 29 fours 4 sixes |
| January 4 | 1st Dutch talkie movie, Jan Teunissen's "Willem of Orange," premieres |
| January 5 | Fenway Park catches fire for 2nd time (May 8th 1926 also) |
| January 5 | National and American baseball leagues select a uniform ball |
| January 7 | "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts |
| January 7 | Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld |
| January 8 | Jaap Speyers "Bluejackets" premieres in Amsterdam |
| January 15 | 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die |
| January 15 | Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut) |
| January 17 | Carl Hubbell, NL MVP winner, gets $18,000 contract by the New York Giants |
| January 17 | Electric Home and Farm Authority incorporated |
| January 17 | New York Giants reward MVP pitcher Carl Hubbell with $18,000 contract |
| January 18 | Eugene O'Neill's "Days Without End," premieres in New York City |
| January 19 | Kenesaw Mountain Landis denies Joe Jackson's appeal for reinstatement |
| January 20 | Japan sends Henry Pu Yi as regent to emperor of Manchuria |
| January 22 | Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady MacBeth," premieres in Leningrad |
| January 26 | Bradman scores 128 NSW vs. Victoria, 96 minutes, 17 fours 4 sixes |
| January 26 | Nazi Germany and Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years |
| January 27 | 27th Australian Men's Tennis Open: Fred Perry beat Crawford (63 75 61) |
| January 27 | French government of Chautemps falls (Stavisky Affair) |
| January 27 | VARA refuses to hire after commemoration of Marinus Van de Lubbe |
| January 28 | 1st U.S. ski tow (rope) begins operation (Woodstock Vermont) |
| January 30 | 1st theatrical presentation sponsored by U.S. government, New York City |
| January 30 | Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 years 298 days |
| January 30 | Hitler proclamation on German unified states |
| January 31 | Franklin D. Roosevelt devalus dollar in relation to gold at $35 per ounce |
| February 1 | Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his |
| February 2 | Dutch RC Bishops warn against fascism/nazism |
| February 6 | Reds purchase 43-year-old Dazzy Vance from the Cards for $7,500 |
| February 7 | 1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo, Miss |
| February 8 | Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington, D.C. |
| February 8 | Gaston Doumergue forms new French government |
| February 9 | -14.3 degrees F (-25.7 degrees C), coldest day in New York City |
| February 9 | -51 degrees F (-46 degrees C), Vanderbilt, Michigan (state record) |
| February 9 | Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Romania) |
| February 10 | 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine |
| February 10 | Byrd souvenir sheet issued, New York City; 1st unperforated ungummed U.S. stamp |
| February 10 | Howard Hanson's "Merry Mount," premieres in New York City |
| February 10 | Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier" |
| February 10 | Thomson/Gertrude Steins opera premieres in New York City |
| February 12 | Export-Import Bank incorporates |
| February 12 | France hit by a general strike against fascists and royalists |
| February 13 | Austrian Dollfuss government bans socialistic party |
| February 14 | NHL Ace Bailey Benefit Game: Toronto beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto |
| February 17 | 1st high school auto driving course offered (State College, Penn) |
| February 19 | Bob and Dolores Hope marry |
| February 19 | U.S. contract air mail service canceled, replaced by U.S. Army for 6 months |
| February 20 | Virgil Thomson's opera "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens in New York City |
| February 21 | Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by National Guard |
| February 22 | "It Happened One Night," opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall |
| February 23 | Casey Stengel becomes manager of Brooklyn Dodgers |
| February 23 | Coronation of King Leopold III of Belgium |
| March 1 | Henry Pu Yi crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria |
| March 1 | Primo Carnera beats Tommy Loughran in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| March 2 | Union Pacific tests light-weight high-speed passenger train, Omaha |
| March 3 | John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol |
| March 4 | Easter Cross on Mount Davidson (SF) dedicated |
| March 5 | Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo, Texas) |
| March 6 | Sidney Howard and Paul de Kruif's "Yellowjacket," premieres in New York City |
| March 8 | Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars |
| March 10 | Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games) |
| March 10 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Suzanne Davis |
| March 10 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
| March 11 | Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer |
| March 12 | Acting President Constantine Pats commits coup in Tallinn Estonia |
| March 12 | Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail |
| March 12 | Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Berlin |
| March 15 | U.S. Information Service opens |
| March 16 | Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act |
| March 17 | Dollfuss, Mussolini and Gombos sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome) |
| March 20 | Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless inning for Philadelphia A's in exhibition game against Brooklyn Dodgers |
| March 20 | Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar in Kiel Germany |
| March 20 | Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Germany |
| March 21 | Babe Didrikson pitches an inning in an A's-Dodgers exhibition game Walks 1, hits the next guy, 3rd guy hits into triple-play |
| March 21 | Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500 |
| March 22 | 1st Masters golf championship began in Augusta, Georgia |
| March 22 | Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000) |
| March 23 | U.S. Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945 |
| March 24 | U.S. declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945 |
| March 25 | 1st Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 284 |
| March 26 | Driving tests introduced in Britain |
| March 29 | Bank of Travail in Belgium, socialist worker's movement bankrupt |
| March 31 | Netherlands Indies BC Ltd begins radio transmission (Indonesia) |
| April 1 | Bonnie and Clyde kill 2 police officers |
| April 6 | 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany |
| April 7 | In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience |
| April 10 | Stanley Cup: Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 3 games to 1 |
| April 12 | Highest velocity wind ever recorded on Mount Washington, New Hampshire, 231 mph |
| April 13 | 4.7 million U.S. families report receiving welfare payments |
| April 13 | U.S. Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act |
| April 17 | New Fenway Park opens, Washington Senators beat Red Sox 6-5 |
| April 18 | 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Ft. Worth, Texas) |
| April 18 | Hitler names J von Ribbentrop, ambassador for disarmament |
| April 19 | 38th Boston Marathon won by Dave Komonen of Canada in 2:32:53.8 |
| April 19 | Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up and Cheer" |
| April 20 | Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police |
| April 21 | Moe Berg, Senators catcher, plays AL record 117th cons errorless game |
| April 28 | Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Home Owners Loan Act |
| April 28 | Soccer team Blue White '34 forms |
| April 28 | Spanish government of Samper forms |
| April 28 | Tigers' Goose Goslin grounds into 4 straight double plays |
| April 29 | Pittsburgh is last major league city to play a home game on a Sunday |
| April 30 | Austrian gets "Austrian facist" constitution |
| May 1 | Austria signs pact with Vatican |
| May 1 | Philippine legislature accepts U.S. proposal for independence |
| May 1 | Water state kingdom dismisses NSB-leader Anton Mussert |
| May 2 | Nazi-Germany begins People's court |
| May 3 | Bradman scores 206 Australia vs. Worcestershire, 210 minutes, 27 fours |
| May 5 | 60th Kentucky Derby: Mack Garner aboard Cavalcade wins in 2:04 |
| May 6 | Red Sox score 12 runs in 4th inning including record 4 consecutive triples hit by Carl Reynolds, Moose Solters, Rick Ferrell, and B Walters |
| May 7 | Netherlands Princess Juliana opens Juliana Canal |
| May 7 | Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region |
| May 7 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White) |
| May 7 | World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines |
| May 9 | Bradman out for a Cricket duck against Cambridge University! |
| May 12 | 60th Preakness: Robert Jones aboard High Quest wins in 1:58.2 |
| May 12 | "Cocktails For Two," by Duke Ellington hits #1 |
| May 13 | Great dustbowl storm |
| May 15 | Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive |
| May 15 | Karlis Ulmanis names himself fascist dictator of Latvia |
| May 18 | Academy Award 1st called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky) |
| May 18 | Congress approves "Lindbergh Act," makes kidnapping a capital offense |
| May 18 | Jimmie Foxx hits 1st home run in Comiskey Park center field bleachers |
| May 18 | TWA began commercial service |
| May 19 | Military coup by Col Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria |
| May 19 | Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Sat Review of Lit" Males who solved puzzle became members of Baker Street Irregulars |
| May 21 | Oskaloosa Iowa, becomes 1st U.S. city to fingerprint its citizens |
| May 23 | Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon (polymeer 66) |
| May 24 | Colombia and Peru sign accord about harbor city Leticia |
| May 25 | Bela Bartok's "Enchanted Deer," premieres |
| May 26 | Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago |
| May 28 | Bradman gets 160 Australia vs. Middlesex, 124 minutes, 27 fours, 1x6, 1x5 |
| May 28 | Hobbs scores his 197th and last FC cricket ton at 51 years 163 days |
| June 1 | AFC '34 soccer team forms in Alkmaar |
| June 5 | 1st formal meeting of Baker Street Irregulars (New York City) |
| June 6 | Securities and Exchange Commission established |
| June 6 | Yankee Myrl Hoag hits 6 singles in one game |
| June 9 | 1st Donald Duck cartoon, Wise Little Hen, released |
| June 9 | 38th U.S. Golf Open: Olin Dutra shoots a 293 at Merion Cricket Club PA |
| June 9 | 66th Belmont: Wayne D Wright aboard Peace Chance wins in 2:29.2 |
| June 9 | Donald Duck made his 1st screen appearance ("The Wise Little Hen") |
| June 9 | Lawson Little beats Gene Sarazen by 3 strokes for U.S. Open |
| June 10 | Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome |
| June 10 | U.S.S.R. and Romania regain diplomatic relations |
| June 11 | Disarmament conference in Geneva fails |
| June 12 | Black-McKeller Bill passes causes Bill Boeing empire to break up into Boeing United Aircraft [Technologies] and United Air Lines |
| June 14 | Hitler and Mussolini meet in Vienna |
| June 14 | Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City |
| June 14 | WOQ-AM in Kansas City Missouri goes off the air |
| June 15 | Great Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated |
| June 18 | U.S. Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized |
| June 19 | Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created |
| June 25 | Hedley Verity takes 15 wickets vs. Australia (7-61 and 8-43) |
| June 25 | New York Yankee Lou Gehrig hits for the cycle beating White Sox 11-2, |
| June 25 | Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times |
| June 26 | Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Federal Credit Union Act, establishing Credit Unions |
| June 26 | Germany and Poland sign no-attack treaty |
| June 26 | W. E. B. Du Bois resigns position at NAACP |
| June 27 | Federal Savings and Loan Association created |
| June 28 | Hitler flies to Essen, Night of Long Knifes |
| June 30 | French Equatorial Africa constituted a single administrative unit |
| June 30 | NFL's Portsmouth Spartans become Detroit Lions |
| June 30 | "Night of Long Knives," Hitler stages bloody purge of Nazi party |
| July 1 | 1st x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, New York |
| July 2 | General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico |
| July 3 | FDIC pays off 1st insured depositors, Fon du Lac Bank, East Peoria, Illinois |
| July 4 | Jordanians revolt in Amsterdam after reduction in employment |
| July 7 | Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbledon doubles championship |
| July 9 | SS-Reichs Fuhrer Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps |
| July 10 | 1st sitting U.S. president to visit South America, Franklin D. Roosevelt in Colombia |
| July 10 | 2nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-7 at Polo Grounds, New York |
| July 10 | Carl Hubbell strikes out Ruth, Gehrig and Foxx in All star game |
| July 11 | Franklin D. Roosevelt became 1st President to travel through Panama Canal |
| July 12 | U.S. Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island abandoned |
| July 12 | Willy de Supervise swims world record 400m (5:16.0) |
| July 13 | Babe Ruth hits home run number 700, against Detroit |
| July 14 | 116 degrees F (47 degrees C), Orogrande New Mexico (state record, broken on June 27, 1994) |
| July 14 | New York Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 home run record to stand for all time |
| July 14 | Phillies score 11 runs in an inning, beats Cincinnati 18-0 |
| July 14 | Ruth hits 700th career home run |
| July 16 | Bradman scores 140 Australia vs. Yorkshire, 120 minutes, 22 fours 2 sixes |
| July 17 | Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland |
| July 20 | 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Keokuk, Iowa (state record) |
| July 21 | 113 degrees F (45 degrees C), near Gallipolis, Ohio (state record) |
| July 23 | Bradman completes 304 at Headingley, 430 minutes, 43 fours 2 sixes |
| July 24 | 1st ptarmigan hatched and reared in captivity, Ithaca, New York |
| July 25 | Failed nazi coup in Austria |
| July 27 | French socialist/communist party of People's Front forms |
| July 28 | 118 degrees F (48 degrees C), Orofino, Idaho (state record) |
| July 29 | 17th PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Park CC Williamsville NY |
| July 31 | 29th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats USA in Wimbledon (4-1) |
| July 31 | St. Louis Cardinals defeat Cincinnati Reds 8-6 in 18 innings, pitchers Dizzy Dean and Tony Freitos go the distant |
| August 2 | 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it |
| August 2 | Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany |
| August 2 | William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour |
| August 4 | New York Giants Mel Ott sets record of 6 runs in game and beats Phillies 21-4 |
| August 6 | U.S. troops leave Haiti, which had been occupied since 1915 |
| August 7 | U.S. Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses" |
| August 10 | Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player |
| August 11 | 1st federal prisoners arrive at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay |
| August 16 | U.S. explorer William Beebe descends 3,028' (923 m) in Bathysphere |
| August 18 | 48th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H Cooke (61 64) |
| August 18 | Bradman scores 244 in 5th Test Cricket, 316 minutes, 32 fours 1 six |
| August 18 | Ponsford and Bradman make 451 partnership in 316 minutes vs. Eng |
| August 19 | 48th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H P Fabyan (61 64) |
| August 19 | Hitler elected Fuhrer (95.7% of German voters) |
| August 19 | Paul Runyan wins PGA golf tournament |
| August 20 | Ponsford out for 266 in his final Test Cricket match |
| August 22 | Australia beat England by 562 runs to regain Cricket Ashes |
| August 22 | Red Sox pitcher Wes Ferrell hits 2 home runs to beat White Sox 3-2 in 12 |
| August 27 | Arlen, Ira Gershwin and Harburgs musical premieres in New York City |
| August 31 | 1st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Bears 0, All-Stars 0 (79,432) |
| September 1 | Spelling-Marchand Laws enforced |
| September 3 | Tunisia began its move for independence |
| September 4 | Bradman scores 149* Australia vs. England XI, 104 minutes, 17 fours 4 sixes |
| September 7 | Luxury liner "Morro Castle" burns off NJ, killing 134 |
| September 8 | 54th U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats Wilmer L Allison (64 63 16 86) |
| September 8 | Bradman scores 132 vs. Leveson-Gower XI, 90 minutes, 24 fours 1 six |
| September 8 | Luxury passenger ship Morro Castle for New Jersey catches fire, 133 die |
| September 9 | Armas Toivonen becomes 1st European marathoner (2:52:29.0) |
| September 9 | G Kaufman and M Hart's "Merrily We Roll Along," premieres in New York City |
| September 12 | Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania signs Baltic Entente, against U.S.S.R. |
| September 13 | Judge Landis sells World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000 |
| September 17 | RCA Victor re leases 1st 33 1/3 rpm recording (Beethoven's 5th) |
| September 17 | U.S.S.R. joins League of Nations (Netherland, Switzerland and Portugal vote no) |
| September 18 | St. Louis Brown Bobo Newsom loses no-hitter to Boston in 10, 2-1 |
| September 18 | U.S.S.R. admitted to League of Nations |
| September 19 | Bruno Hauptmann arrested for kidnapping Lindbergh baby |
| September 21 | St. Louis Card Paul Dean no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 3-0 |
| September 21 | Typhoon strikes Honshu Island Japan, kills 4,000 |
| September 24 | 2500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium |
| September 24 | Idle Detroit wins pennant, as Red Sox beat Yankees 5-0 |
| September 25 | John Van Druten's "Distaff Side," premieres in New York City |
| September 25 | Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,500th consecutive game |
| September 25 | Rainbow (U.S.) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup |
| September 26 | British liner Queen Mary is launched |
| September 29 | Rondo Hatton weds Mabel Housh |
| September 30 | Babe Ruth's final game as a Yankee, goes 0 for 3 |
| September 30 | Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) |
| September 30 | St. Louis Card clinch pennant as Dizzy Dean wins his 30th of year |
| October 1 | Adolph Hitler expands German army and Navy and creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles |
| October 8 | Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Lindbergh's son |
| October 9 | St. Louis Cardinals beat Detroit Tigers, 4 games to 3 in 31st World Series |
| October 14 | "Lux Radio Theatre" premieres |
| October 16 | Mao Tse-tung and 25,000 troops begin 6,000 mile Long March |
| October 17 | "The Aldrich Family" premieres on radio |
| October 18 | Chinese Red leader under Mao Tse Tung begins Long March |
| October 20 | All-Star team led by Babe Ruth and Connie Mack sails to Hawaii and Japan |
| October 20 | Richard Strauss completes his opera "Die Schweigsame Frau" |
| October 23 | Jean Piccard and Jeanette Ridlen attain balloon height of 17.341 m (rec) |
| October 26 | While Washington player-mgr Joe Cronin honeymoons with Mildred Robertson owner Clark Griffith's niece and adopted daughter, he is sold to Red Sox |
| October 28 | Brooklyn and Pittsburgh play a penalty free NFL game |
| November 2 | Babe Ruth tours Tokyo Japan |
| November 3 | Although Lou Gehrig wins Triple Crown, Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP |
| November 3 | Dizzy Dean chosen as NL MVP |
| November 4 | Pitts ends Detroit Lions' shutout streak at 7 games but loses 40-7 |
| November 6 | NFL Philadelphia Eagles beat Cincinnati Reds 64-0 |
| November 7 | Arthur L Mitchell, becomes 1st black Democratic congressman (Ill) |
| November 8 | Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president |
| November 11 | 1st penalty shot vs Toronto Maple Leafs, Mondou (Mont) unsuccessful |
| November 11 | WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa splits from WHO-WOC and becomes KICK-AM |
| November 15 | Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C. Urey (deuterium) |
| November 17 | Lyndon B. Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor |
| November 20 | Eiji Sawamura, 17, gives up 1 hit, Lou Gehrig's home run, Japan beats U.S. 1-0 |
| November 20 | Lillian Hellman's "Children's Hour," premieres in New York City |
| November 20 | New Belgian government of Theunis, Francqui and Gutt (3 bankers) |
| November 20 | Tornoto Maple Leaf Harvey Jackson is 1st to score 4 goals in 1 period |
| November 21 | New York Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco Seals (Pacific Coast League) |
| November 21 | "Uiver" returns from Schiphol in London-Melbourne air race |
| November 22 | "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" 1st heard on Eddie Cantor's show |
| November 24 | CFL Grey Cup: Sarnia beats Regina, 20-12 at Toronto |
| November 24 | SN Behrman's "Rain from Heaven," premieres in New York City |
| November 26 | German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to nazi |
| November 26 | Turkish regiment decrees importing family names |
| November 28 | Churchill tells Premier Baldwin not to under estimate German air power |
| November 29 | Chicago Bears beat Detroit (19-16) in 1st NFL game broadcast nationally |
| November 29 | English King George V weds princess Marina of Greece/Denmark |
| December 2 | 5.08-m (200") Mount Palomar Observatory mirror is cast |
| December 3 | Italian colonial Tripoli and Cyrenaica annexed to Libya |
| December 3 | KYW-AM in Chicago, Illinois moves to Philadelphia Penn |
| December 7 | Wiley Post discovers jet stream |
| December 8 | Friedrich Wolf's "Professor Mamlock," premieres in Zurich |
| December 9 | New York Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship |
| December 10 | Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp |
| December 10 | NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of season |
| December 10 | Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite |
| December 11 | 1935 All-Star Game is assigned to Cleveland |
| December 11 | 1st Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher unsuccessful vs Rangers |
| December 11 | Ford Frick becomes president of baseball's National League |
| December 11 | NL votes to permit night baseball (up to 7 games per home team) |
| December 13 | Mark Hellinger Theater (Warner Bros) opens at 237 W 51st St. New York City |
| December 14 | 1st streamlined steam locomotive introduced (Albany New York) |
| December 15 | Fokker F18 Snip flies to Netherlands West Indies |
| December 19 | Japan agress to fleet treaty of 1922 and 1930 |
| December 22 | 1st flight from Netherland to Curacao (Christmas flight 1934) |
| December 22 | Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games |
| December 24 | Grimmett takes 9-180 for SA as Queensland make 430 |
| December 25 | Four centuries for SA as they make 7-644 vs. Qld before 6,180 |
| December 25 | Samson Raphaelson's "Accent on Youth," premieres in New York City |
| December 26 | Yomiuri Giants, Japan's 1st professional baseball team forms |
| December 27 | 1st youth hostel in U.S. opens (Northfield, Mass) |
| December 27 | Shah of Persia declares Persia now Iran |
| December 27 | Vernon Duke and James Hanley's musical premieres in New York City |
| December 29 | 1st collegiate basketball doubleheader (MSG) |
| December 29 | Federico Garcia Lorca's "Yerma," premieres in Madrid |
| December 29 | Japan renounces Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and London Treaty of 1930 |
| December 31 | Helen Richey becomes 1st woman to pilot an airmail transport |
