1934 — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is created and begins to regulate all national and international communications by telephone, radio and cable. In addition, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is set up to control the trading of securities and to correct violations in the market.

Also that year:

• Hitler combines the office of German Chancellor and President and gives himself the title Führer, or leader.
• Shirley Temple stars in the film Bright Eyes, in which she sings “On the Good Ship Lollipop.”
• French chemists Frédérick Joilet-Curie and Irène Joilet-Curie produce radioactive nitrogen, the first artificially radioactive element.
• The Dionne quintuplets, five girls born in Ontario, Canada, are the first know quintuplets to survive.