1934 top Hitler becomes F hrer. U.S.S.R. admitted to League of Nations . Dionne sisters, first quintuplets to survive beyond infancy, born in Canada.
Longshoremen clash with police and shut down the city in the nation's first general strike.
Their success ignites strikes across the country. The first Drive-in movie theater opens in Camden, New Jersey. The Thin Man is the first of a popular series of films casting a sophisticated husband and wife detective team, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, and Asta. The story is taken from Dashiell Hammett's 1932 detective novel of the same name. Parker Brothers' Sorry went on sale.