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1934

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Mar

22

Paul Runyan Competing in a Golf Tournament

(Original Caption) At Augusta Masters Invitation Tournament. Augusta, Georgia: Paul Runyan pictured driving from the fifth tee in the first day's play in the Masters Invitation Golf Tournament, which opened March 22nd, at the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga. Bobby Jones, ending a four year absence from golf, was paired with Runyan in the opening match, for which he turned in a score of 76.

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May

23

Bonnie and W. D. Jones

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 - May 23, 1934) and W. D. Jones, American criminals, known for their bank robberies. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Aug

11

View dated 1930's of the Alcatraz island

View dated 1930's of the Alcatraz island and penitentiary, in the San Francisco Bay. From the mid 1930's until the mid 1960's, Alcatraz ("the Rock") was America's premier maximum-security prison, the final stop for the nation's most incorrigible inmates, including Al Capone. (Photo credit should read -/AFP via Getty Images)

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Oct

16

Mao Zedong with Red army soldiers on the Long March, 1935.

Mao Zedong with Red army soldiers on the Long March, 1935. The Long March was a military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Communist Party of China, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang arm. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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