In 1934, driven from their mountain bases such as the Chinese Soviet Republic, the CPC forces embarked on the Long March across China's most desolate terrain to the northwest, where they established a guerrilla base at Yan ' an in Shaanxi Province.

When Hitler's internal purge of the party, the Night of the Long Knives, came in 1934, a large number of Freikorps leaders were targeted for killing or arrest, including Ehrhardt and Röhm.

# In the summer of 1934 Hitler instructed the SS to kill Ernst Röhm and other leaders of the Nazi party's SA, former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and several aides to former Chancellor Franz von Papen in the so-called Night of the Long Knives ( June 30, 1934 / July 1, 1934 ).

On the weekend of 30 June 1934, he gave order to the SS to seize Röhm and his lieutenants, and to execute them without trial ( known as the Night of the Long Knives ).

Hitler had long been at odds with Röhm and felt increasingly threatened by these plans and in the " Night of the Long Knives " in 1934 killed Röhm and the top SA leaders using their notorious homosexuality as an excuse.

Between 85 to 200 members of the SA leadership and other political adversaries, including Gregor Strasser, were killed between 30 June and 2 July 1934 in these actions, known as the Night of the Long Knives.

* 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.

* 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.

Adenauer was imprisoned for two days after the Night of the Long Knives on the 30th June 1934, but already on the 10th of August 1934, maneuvering for his pension, he wrote a 10-page letter to Hermann Göring ( the Prussian interior minister ) stating among other things that as a mayor he had even violated Prussian laws in order to allow NSDAP events in public buildings and Nazi flags to be flown from city flagpoles, and added that in 1932 he had declared publicly that the Nazis should join the Reich government in a leading role.

By October 1934, he had them surrounded, prompting them to engage in the " Long March ", a retreat from Jiangxi in the southeast to Shaanxi in the north west of China.

* 1934 – The Soviet Republic of China collapses when Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army successfully encircles Ruijin, forcing the fleeing Communists to begin the Long March.

* 1934 – Chinese Communists begin the Long March ; it ended a year and four days later, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.

On April 20, 1934, ( as a prelude to the Night of the Long Knives ), Göring transferred the Gestapo to Himmler, who was also named chief of all German police forces outside Prussia ; two days later Himmler named Heydrich the head of the Gestapo.

Group F streptococci were first described in 1934 by Long and Bliss amongst the " minute haemolytic streptococci ".

Second, he admitted that he saw an " awakening " (" Aufbruch ") which might help to find a " new national and social approach ," but said that he changed his mind about this in 1934, largely prompted by the violence of the Night of the Long Knives.

During the Night of the Long Knives in 1934, a purge of those whom Hitler deemed threats to his power took place, he had Röhm murdered and used Röhm's homosexuality as a justification to suppress outrage within the ranks of the SA.

Sorge praised Hitler for the Night of the Long Knives, and claimed that if Hitler had been leader in 1918, then the High Seas Fleet mutiny would had been crushed just like Hitler had crushed the alleged SA mutiny of 1934.

Ernst Röhm, SA Chief of Staff, was shot on Hitler's orders, after refusing to commit suicide, in the Night of the Long Knives purge in 1934

* 1934: October 16, breakout of 130, 000 soldiers and civilians led by Bo Gu and Otto Braun, beginning the Long March.

In this sense, the Long March lasted from October 16, 1934 to October 19, 1935.

A “ Third Red Army " was led by He Long who established his base area in the Hunan-Hubei border ; by 1932 his forces were soundly defeated and in October 1934 merged with the 6th Army Corps led by Xiao Ke to form the Second Red Army.

The ceremony was cancelled in 1934, coming as it did after the so-called Night of the Long Knives.

Australia recovered the Ashes in 1934 and held them until 1953, although no international cricket was possible during the Second World War.

* 1934 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.

From 1934 to 1953, three congresses were held ( a breach of the party rule which stated that a congress must be convened every third year ), one conference and 23 Central Committee meetings.

Alexander then held staff appointments as ( from January 1931 ) GSO2 in the Directorate of Military Training at the War Office and ( 1932-4 ) GSO1 at HQ Northern Command, York, before being made in October 1934 a temporary brigadier and given command of the Nowshera Brigade, on the Northwest Frontier in India.

After the demise of Der Sturm Gallery in 1924 he ran an advertising agency called Merzwerbe, which held the accounts for Pelikan inks and Bahlsen biscuits, amongst others, and became the official typographer for Hannover town council between 1929 and 1934.

In 1925, after the death of Mikhail Frunze, Voroshilov was appointed People's Commissar for Military and Navy Affairs and Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR, a post he held until 1934.

The early Waffen-SS can trace its origins to 1934 in the SS-Verfügungstruppe: two Standarten ( regiments ) under retired general Paul Hausser armed and trained to Army standards, and held ready at the personal disposal of the Führer in peace or war.

With the appointment of Vincent Massey as governor general in 1952, governors general ceased to be members of a peerage ; successive governments since that date have held to the non-binding and defeated ( in 1934 ) principles of the 1919 Nickle Resolution.

A Century of Progress International Exposition was the name of a World's Fair held in Chicago from 1933 to 1934 to celebrate the city's centennial.

Brazil and Germany had been the leading bidders to host the cancelled 1942 World Cup ; since both the 1934 and 1938 tournaments had been held in Europe, football historians generally agree that the 1942 event would most likely have been awarded to a South American host country.

The annual San Pedro Valley Fair has been held at the St. David High School since 1934.

The dedication of the site as a national reserve in 1934 was probably the first major event held there since the 1840s.

Lutherans in Wyandanch held their first services from August 1934 in the Republican Hall.

In 1934, the respective boroughs entered into an agreement for consolidation, and an election was held on this question on November 6, 1934.

Since 1934, the city has hosted the West Tennessee Strawberry Festival, held the first full week of May.

The couple had two sons ; the elder son, Ryo ( 1885 – 1969 ), succeeded his father as the second Marquess Togo in 1934 and held the title until the kazoku was abolished in 1947.

In 1934, Dupré succeeded Charles-Marie Widor as titular organist at St. Sulpice in Paris, a post he held until his death in 1971.

For 76 years, until 2010, a weather observatory on the summit held the record for the highest wind gust directly measured at the Earth's surface, ( or 103 m / s ), on the afternoon of April 12, 1934.

Mount Washington once held the world record ( still the Northern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere record ) for directly measured surface wind speed, at, recorded on the afternoon of April 12, 1934.

He participated in the 1934 prosecution of Samuel Insull, the 1935 income tax case against Andrew Mellon, and the 1937 anti-trust case against Alcoa, in which the Mellon family held an important interest.

Rothermere was sympathetic to the fascist movement in the UK until 1934, when the British Union of Fascists held a rally where violence occurred.

They were held at the White City Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom from 4 – 11 August 1934, apart from the cycling at Fallowfield Stadium, Manchester, and the swimming, which took place at the Empire Pool in Wembley.

The SEC has legal authority to establish financial accounting and reporting standards for publicly held companies under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.