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Gov Lehman to recommend to Legis safeguards for bus passengers
J Gerl, Czech Socialist workman, hanged for attempted bombing; sentence commuted for companion, R Anzbaeck; 300 Socialists arrested; Dollfuss's residence guarded; Vienna houses searched; Govt nervous over repts of planned demonstrations for Aug 1
Record heat grips West; deaths put at 700
G E Allen, Comr of Wash, D C, charges officials antagonize needy; spent vacation on breadlines
Lists proposals for unemployment relief taxation
1934Don Ellis, American trumpet player and composer (died 1978)[â ]
Donald Johnson Ellis was an American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer, and bandleader. He is best known for his extensive musical experimentation, particularly in the area of time signatures. Later in his life he worked as a film composer, contributing a score to 1971's The French Connection and 1973's The Seven-Ups.
1934Claude Zidi, French director and screenwriter[â ]
Claude Zidi is a French film director and screenwriter. From 1971, he became known as a director of comedies, the majority of which were box-office hits in France. He was one of France's most commercially successful directors between the 1970s and the 1990s. In 1985, he won the CĂ©sar Award for Best Director for his film My New Partner.
1934François Coty, French businessman, founded Coty (born 1874)[â ]
François Coty was a French perfumer, businessman, newspaper publisher, politician and patron of the arts. He was the founder of the Coty perfume company, today a multinational. He is considered the founding father of the modern perfume industry.
1934Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician, 14th Chancellor of Austria (born 1892)[â ]
Engelbert Dollfuss was an Austrian politician and dictator who served as chancellor of Austria between 1932 and 1934. Having served as Minister for Forests and Agriculture, he ascended to Federal Chancellor in 1932 in the midst of a crisis for the conservative government. This crisis culminated in the self-elimination of the Austrian Parliament, a coup sparked by the resignation of the presiding officers of the National Council. Suppressing the Socialist movement in the Austrian Civil War and later banning the Austrian Nazi Party, he cemented his rule through the First of May Constitution in 1934. Later that year, Dollfuss was assassinated as part of a failed coup attempt by Nazi agents. His successor Kurt Schuschnigg maintained the regime until Adolf Hitler's Anschluss in 1938.
1934Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary (born 1888)[â ]
Nestor Ivanovych Makhno, also known as Bat'ko Makhno, was a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian War of Independence. He established the Makhnovshchina, a mass movement by the Ukrainian peasantry to establish anarchist communism in the country between 1918 and 1921. Initially centered around Makhno's home province of Katerynoslav and hometown of Huliaipole, it came to exert a strong influence over large areas of southern Ukraine, specifically in what is now the Zaporizhzhia Oblast of Ukraine.
1934The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.[â ]
Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800â1806) and German Empire (1871â1918). The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945, after 12 years, when the Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, ending World War II in Europe.