On this day
October 6, 1934
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Headlines from October 6, 1934
BRITISH TORIES ASK NATIONAL LOTTERY AND MODIFIED 'NRA'; Conservative Convention Backs Overwhelmingly Plan to Keep Gambling Money at Home. SEEKS TO SPUR INDUSTRY Adopts Reorganization Move Designed to Help Both Employers and Workers. SOME ATTACK THE STEP Sir Isidore Salmon Holds It Will Mean a 'General Johnson' to Stifle Initiative.
S on economic conditions, at Conservative party conf
Daffy Dean Baffles the Tigers, And Cards Score 4 to 1 Triumph; Gives Eight Hits and Five Walks, but Is Invincible When Men Are on Bases -- Long Drives by Martin and Rothrock Feature Game as St. Louis Gains 2-1 Lead in World Series. Daffy Dean Baffles Tigers and Cardinals Win to Gain 2-1 Edge in Series STARS OF THIRD GAME AND OUTFIELDERS WHO HAVE BACKED UP DEANS.
St Louis wins
FEDERAL REVENUES PASS $1,000,000,000; Amount, $271,000,000 Ahead of a Year Ago, Stirs New Optimism in Capital. INDUSTRY LOANS RISING Small Coins in Best Demand Since December, 1929 -- Income Tax Receipts Rise. FEDERAL REVENUES PASS $1,000,000,000
Increased demand for small coins seen as indication of improvement
Spanish Rebels Ambush Many Civil Guards After Calling Them Out to Isolated Places
revolutionists' stratagems described
Notable Births
1934Marshall Rosenberg, American psychologist and author (died 2015)[†]
Marshall Bertram Rosenberg was an American psychologist, mediator, author and teacher. Starting in the early 1960s, he developed nonviolent communication, a process for supporting partnership and resolving conflict within people, relationships, and society. He worked worldwide as a peacemaker, and in 1984 founded the Center for Nonviolent Communication, an international nonprofit organization for which he served as Director of Educational Services.
Historical Events
1934Revolution of 1934: The President of the autonomous government of Catalonia, Lluís Companys, proclaims the Catalan State with the support of the Worker's Alliance.[†]
The events of 6 October were a general strike, armed insurgency and declaration of a Catalan State in Catalonia during the Revolution of 1934 on 6 October 1934.