1934 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1934 in the United Kingdom.

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21 January - 10,000 people attend a British Union of Fascists rally in Birmingham, organised by Oswald Mosley.^[1]
3 April - Percy Shaw patents the cat's eye road-safety device.
6 April - Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.
19 April - Surgeon R.K. Wilson allegedly takes a photograph of the Loch Ness Monster.
4 May - Fifty-four year old grandmother Mrs G. E. Alington becomes the first woman in Britain to complete a parachute jump, skydiving from 1500 feet over Brooklands Aerodrome.
18 July - opening of the Queensway Tunnel beneath the River Mersey by King George V.^[2]
19 July - 41 squadrons added to the Royal Air Force as part of a new air defence program.^[1]
4–11 August - 1934 British Empire Games held in London.
22 September - Gresford Disaster: A gas explosion took place at Gresford Colliery in Wrexham, north-east Wales which led to the death of 266 miners and rescuers.^[2] This was one of the worst tragedies in Welsh mining history.
26 September - Launching of the liner RMS Queen Mary.^[2]
29 November - Marriage of Prince George, Duke of Kent to Princess Marina; the wedding is the first to be broadcast live on radio.^[2]
10 December - Arthur Henderson wins the Nobel Peace Prize.^[3]

6 January - Herbert Chapman, football manager (born 1878)
23 January - Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway, politician and jurist (born 1850)
23 February - Edward Elgar, composer (born 1857)
11 April - John Collier, writer and painter (born 1850)
25 May - Gustav Holst, composer (born 1874)
10 June - Frederick Delius, composer (born 1862)
10 September - George Henschel, musician (born 1850)
16 November - Alice Liddell, the schoolgirl who was the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (born 1852)

^ ^a ^b Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 378-379. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
^ The Nobel Peace Prize 1934