The sudden closing was the first since September 16, 1920, when 30 people were killed by a bomb at the Exchange. A tear gas attack, on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, sent hundreds of brokers scattering and forced the suspension of trading.
Died: Arthur Collins, 69, American recording artist, most famous for his 1899 phonographic record " Hello! Ma Baby". The record of 308 games still stands, with the second longest streak being 212 by the Milwaukee Brewers from 1978 to 1979. The Yankees had scored at least one run in every game since Aug when the Yankees beat the Red Sox 9–8. The New York Yankees streak of consecutive games without a shutout ended with a 7–0 loss to the Philadelphia Athletics and pitcher Lefty Grove. Amateur astronomer and actor Will Hay became the first person on Earth to see the event, which lasted for four weeks and allowed an accurate measure of Saturn's rotational period of 10 hours and 13 minutes. For the first time in thirty years, the " Great White Spot" appeared on the planet Saturn. There was an hour warning before the 6:15 deluge, and only two people were killed, while another 5,000 were evacuated. The collapse of the Castlewood Dam on Colorado's Cherry Creek, sent a 20 foot high wall of water through Denver, Colorado, as well as the towns of Parker and Sullivan. Hans Kerrl, at the time the Prussian Minister of Justice, told the press that the tougher rules were designed "to awaken the unqualified desire in the prisoner never to return into such a house". Among the changes were the punishment of four weeks of verscharfter Arrest ("aggravated detention") in which bad behavior meant four weeks in a cell with no bed, no chance of exercise, and a diet that was, literally, bread and water. New prison regulations were introduced in Germany's largest state, Prussia, and would become the rule nationwide on May 14, 1934. Once completed, however, the Canal "was never of much use". Joseph Stalin was present at the dedication, and Soviet newspapers printed edicts from the Central Committee of the Communist Party, listing those canal workers "who had received commendations and reduced or commuted sentences". Constructed using forced labor, it connected the White Sea with the Baltic Sea by way of Lake Onega. The Soviet White Sea Baltic Canal, a 141-mile (227 km) waterway officially opened. Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian, in Brooklyn (died 2009). Tuckiar vanished the day after leaving jail. Public outcry over the racist attitude of the judge, led in November 1934 to Tuckiar's release. After five of the Yolngu, including Tuckiar, turned themselves in and went to trial. McColl's murder, apparently by a Yolngu named Tuckiar for the rape of Tuckiar's wife, led to fears, among the white residents of the NT, of an aboriginal uprising. Caledon Bay crisis: In Australia's Northern Territory, police constable Albert McColl was killed by a spear, while on Woodah Island investigating the killings of five Japanese fishermen and two white beachcombers, by the aboriginal Yolngu people, who accused the victims of raping Yolngu women. Germany conducted its first executions of Communists, sending Bruno Tesch, Walter Möller, Karl Wolff and August Lütgens to the guillotine at Hamburg. Most of the new department heads were German-speaking professors. 
Istanbul University was opened, with only 35 percent of the faculty who had worked at the Darulfunun the day before.Sukarno, leader of the independence movement against the Netherlands administrators of Indonesia (at the time, the Dutch East Indies), was re-arrested after 19 months out of prison, and sent back to the Sukamiskin Penitentiary at Bandung.He would be released on August 23 after beginning a hunger strike. He was taken to Sabarmati Jail and then transferred to Yervada Jail in Poona.
Gandhi, leader of the peaceful independence movement against the British administrators of India, was arrested the day after calling for individuals to boycott liquor and foreign cloth.
The Blue Eagle emblem of the National Recovery Administration was displayed publicly for the first time as the National Recovery Act went into effect.
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