In 1934, Bill Woodfull led Australia back to England on a tour that had been under a cloud after the tempestuous cricket diplomacy of the previous bodyline series.

In 1934, Woodfull led the Australians back to England for a tour that was to mend relations after assurances had been given that bodyline would not be repeated.

In 1934, having been reappointed to a position on the selection panel, Woodfull led Australia back to England on a tour that had been under a cloud after the tempestuous cricket diplomacy of the previous bodyline series.

After the 1934 tour, Woodfull and Ponsford — Australia's first-choice opening pair — retired, leaving vacancies in the Test team.

With retirements of both Woodfull and Ponsford following the 1934 tour to England, positions at the top of the Australia's batting order became available.

When the selectors met to discuss the tour party for the 1934 tour of England, Brown and Fingleton had similar figures, but with the incumbent Victorian opening pair of Bill Ponsford and captain Bill Woodfull firmly in place, there was only one spot available for a reserve opener.

In 1930, Bill Woodfull led an extremely inexperienced team to England.

Australia had one of the strongest batting line-ups ever in the early 1930s, with Bradman, Archie Jackson, Stan McCabe, Bill Woodfull and Bill Ponsford.

Bill Woodfull evades a ball from Harold Larwood with Bodyline field settings.

Some of the Australians wanted to use Bodyline in retaliation, but Woodfull flatly refused.

This made Woodfull the only captain to regain the Ashes and he retired upon his return to Australia.

In 1936 – 37 Bradman succeeded Woodfull as Australian captain.

According to Linehan, Father Ted was a character created by Mathews for Paul Woodfull, when the three men performed together as The Joshua Trio on the comedy circuit in Ireland.

* 1933 – The controversial Bodyline cricket tactics used by Douglas Jardine's England peaks when Australian captain Bill Woodfull was hit in the heart.

Although English bowlers did aim at the batsmen's body in the opening tour matches, they did not follow through by packing the leg-side field until Bill Woodfull led an Australian XI against the tourists in Melbourne on 18 – 22 November, in what was effectively a Test rehearsal.

The match was drawn and Woodfull struggled, making 18 and a duck.

Before the second Test in Melbourne, Woodfull had to wait until minutes before the game before he was confirmed as captain by the selectors.

This caused the toss to be delayed and fomented speculation that the Australian Board of Control was considering the possibility of removing Woodfull because of his absolute refusal to allow his bowlers to use retaliatory tactics.

However, Woodfull was totally unmoved by such suggestions.

Shortly after the start of Australia's innings, Larwood, bowling to a conventional field setting, struck Woodfull an agonising blow under his heart with a short, lifting delivery.

Woodfull was struck when he was bent over his bat and wicket, and not when upright as often imagined.

As Woodfull bent down over his bat in pain for several minutes, an image that became one of the defining symbols of the series, the huge crowd began jeering, hooting and verbally abusing the English team.

Some English players later expressed fears that a large-scale riot could break out and that the police would not be able to stop the irate home crowd, who were worried that Woodfull or Bradman could be killed, from attacking them.

Later in the day, the English team manager Pelham Warner visited the Australian dressing room to express his sympathies to Woodfull.

Woodfull had remained calm in public, refusing to complain about Jardine's tactics.

Woodfull reportedly added " This game is too good to be spoilt.

In the second innings, Voce repeated the tactic late in the day, in fading light against Woodfull and Bill Brown.

Woodfull told the Nottinghamshire administrators that, if Voce's leg-side bowling was repeated, his men would leave the field and return to London.

In the process, he passed 1000 Test runs against England and the partnership broke the Ashes partnership record at Lord's, which had been set by Bill Woodfull and Don Bradman in 1930.

The tradition reached its apex, perhaps, in the works of Thomas Nelson Page toward the end of the century, and reappeared undiminished as late as 1934 in the best-selling novel So Red The Rose, by Stark Young.

The essential ineffectiveness of these measures resulted in 1934 in substantial elimination of federal jurisdiction to enjoin state public utility rate orders.

`` By one fell swoop the Court now finds that Congress indulged in needless legislation in the acts of 1910, 1913, 1925, 1934 and 1937.

Mrs. Dunkel admitted the slaying and said that the son-in-law became her lover after the death of her daughter in 1934.

Although the Administration's program cut crop acreage to the lowest point since 1934, farmers, with the help of extra fertilizer and good weather, are getting such high yields per acre that many are being forced to buy new harvesting machines.

The acceptance of collective bargaining as a national policy in 1934, implicit in the writing of Section 7A of the National Industrial Recovery Act, has made it impolitic to oppose collective bargaining in principle.

Subsequent formalizations were framed as attempts to define " effective calculability " or " effective method "; those formalizations included the Gödel – Herbrand – Kleene recursive functions of 1930, 1934 and 1935, Alonzo Church's lambda calculus of 1936, Emil Post's " Formulation 1 " of 1936, and Alan Turing's Turing machines of 1936 – 7 and 1939.

Beginning with Three Act Tragedy ( 1934 ), Christie had perfected during the inter-war years a sub-genre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events.

* 1864 – William Bate Hardy, British biochemist ( d. 1934 )

* 1878 – Erich Mühsam, German author ( d. 1934 )

* 1934 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor ( d. 1996 )

* 1934 – Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka ( d. 2010 )

* 1934 – Guy Peellaert, Belgian artist and photographer ( d. 2008 )

* 1934 – The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.

* 1934 – The U. S. Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6, 000 strikers and picketers.

* 1934 – Jerry Lordan, English singer-songwriter and composer ( d. 1995 )

* 1877 – William Brennaugh, Canadian lacrosse player ( d. 1934 )

The 1934 Ashes series began with the notable absence of Larwood, Voce and Jardine.

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

As in 1930, the 1934 series was decided in the final Test at The Oval.

England then achieved their first Ashes win at Lord's since 1934 to go 1 – 0 up.

* 1934 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.