The feature was launched on Monday, August 13, 1934 in eight North American newspapers — including the New York Mirror — and was an immediate success.

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In 1934 the British military began to make strides toward radar ( which also uses the magnetron ) under the direction of Dr Wimperis, culminating in the operation of the first radar station at Bawdsey in August 1936.

* 1934 – August Coppola, American academic ; father of Nicolas Cage ( d. 2009 )

He attended the University of California at Berkeley for a year ( 1934 – 1935 ), worked as a movie projectionist, and spent three years in the U. S. Army after enlisting on August 15, 1942.

He arrived in British Guiana in August 1934, and returned to the United States in October 1955.

# The Law Concerning the Highest State Office of the Reich ( August 1, 1934 ) prescribed that upon the death of the incumbent president, that office would be merged with the office of the chancellor, and that the competencies of the former should be transferred to the " Führer und Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler ", as the law stated.

Upon Hindenburg's death on 2 August 1934, Hitler's cabinet passed a law proclaiming the presidency vacant and transferred the role and powers of the head of state to Hitler as Führer und Reichskanzler ( leader and chancellor ).

After the death of von Hindenburg in August 1934, the Reichstag appointed Hitler Führer und Reichskanzler ( leader and chancellor ); he thus became head of state as well as head of government.

On 20 August 1934, the US government responded positively and took its seat at the ILO.

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.

Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob ( born August 6, 1934 in Oxford, England ) is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony.

At the IAAF meet in August 1934, Finland launched two proposals that lost.

Roberto Clemente Walker ( August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972 ) was a Puerto Rican baseball player whose Major League career comprised the 18 seasons stretching from 1955 through 1972, all of them played with the Pittsburgh Pirates, primarily as a right fielder.

Robert Arthur " Bob " Moog ( ; May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005 ), founder of Moog Music, was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.

* August 3 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian-born composer ( b. 1934 )

* August 13 – King Curtis, American saxophonist ( b. 1934 )

* August 27 – Brian Epstein, English band manager ( The Beatles ) ( b. 1934 )

* August 30 – Michael Dunn, American actor ( b. 1934 )

* August 20 – Raymond Poincare, French President ( d. 1934 )

* August 2 – Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Dutch Queen and regent ( d. 1934 )

* August 19 – Edmond James de Rothschild, French philanthropist ( d. 1934 )

Typex Mk III was a portable version powered by a handle. In August 1934, Lywood began work on a machine regardless, authorised by the RAF.

On August 23, 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov – Ribbentrop non-aggression pact, which secretly provided for the dismemberment of Poland into Nazi and Soviet-controlled zones.

After a failed attempt to sign an anti-German military alliance with France and Britain and talks with Germany regarding a potential political deal, on 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, negotiated by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.

In August 1936, Hitler appointed Ribbentrop Ambassador to Britain with orders to negotiate the Anglo-German alliance: ... et Britain to join the Anti-Comintern Pact, that is what I want most of all.

During all this time, Ribbentrop feuded with various other Nazi leaders ; at one point in August 1939 an armed clash took place between supporters of Ribbentrop and those of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels over the control of a radio station in Berlin that was meant to broadcast German propaganda abroad ( Goebbels claimed exclusive control of all propaganda both at home and abroad whereas Ribbentrop asserted a claim to monopolize all German propaganda abroad ).

Stalin and Ribbentrop at the signing of the Non-Aggression Pact, 23 August 1939

On 11 August 1939, Ribbentrop met the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, and the Italian Ambassador to Germany, Count Bernardo Attolico, in Salzburg.

For a brief moment in August 1939, Ribbentrop convinced Hitler that the Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union would cause the fall of the Chamberlain government, and lead to a new British government that would abandon the Poles to their fate.

The signing of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact on 23 August 1939 not only won Germany an informal alliance with the Soviet Union, but also neutralized Anglo-French attempts to win Turkey to the “ peace front ”.

On 27 August 1939, Chamberlain sent the following letter to Hitler, which was intended to counteract reports Chamberlain had heard from intelligence sources in Berlin that Ribbentrop had convinced Hitler that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact would ensure that Britain would abandon Poland.

On the night of 30 – 31 August 1939, he and Ribbentrop almost came to blows.

On the night of 30 – 31 August 1939, Ribbentrop had an extremely heated exchange with the British Ambassador, Sir Nevile Henderson, who objected to Ribbentrop's demand, given at about midnight, that if a Polish plenipotentiary did not arrive in Berlin that night to discuss the German " final offer ", then the responsibility for the outbreak of war would not rest on the Reich.

The American historian Gerhard Weinberg described the Henderson-Ribbentrop meeting in this way: " When Joachim von Ribbentrop refused to give a copy of the German demands to the British Ambassador at midnight of 30 – 31 August 1939, the two almost came to blows.

On 31 August, Ribbentrop met with Attolico to tell him that Poland's " rejection " of the " generous " German 16-point peace plan meant that Germany had no interest in Mussolini's offer to call a conference about the status of Danzig.

In August 1940, Ribbentrop oversaw the Second Vienna Award, which saw about 40 % of Transylvania region of Romania returned to Hungary.

In August 1941, when the question of whether to deport foreign Jews living in Germany arose, Ribbentrop argued against deportation as a way of maximizing the Foreign Office's influence.

Only once, in August 1942, did Ribbentrop attempt to impede the deportations, but only because of jurisdictional disputes with the SS.

The Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union, also known as the Nazi – Soviet Pact and the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact ( after its chief architects, Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop ) was a non-aggression pact, signed in Moscow in the late hours of 23 August 1939, at the height of the Nomonhan fighting in the far east between the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan.

That night, Stalin replied that the Soviets were willing to sign the pact, and that he would receive Ribbentrop on 23 August.

On 22 August, one day after the talks broke down with France and Britain, Moscow revealed that Ribbentrop would visit Stalin the next day.