Sinking of the Chelyuskin
Over a hundred people live on Arctic sea ice for two months
On 13 February 1934 the steamer Chelyuskin, sailing the Northern Sea Route from Murmansk to Vladivostok, was crushed by ice in the Chukchi Sea; one man died and 103 people, including 10 women and two children, camped on the ice. By April aircraft had flown them all out, and seven pilots became the first Heroes of the Soviet Union.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 16 years earlier
- 1939–1945 World War II — 5 years later
- 1947–1991 Cold War — 13 years later
- 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — 14 years later
- 1949 Founding of NATO — 15 years later
Europe
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 15 years earlier
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — 6 years earlier
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — 1 year earlier
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — 2 years later
- 1941–1945 The Holocaust — 7 years later
Middle East
- 1915–1917 Armenian genocide — 19 years earlier
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 18 years earlier
- 1923 Treaty of Lausanne — 11 years earlier
- 1932 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia proclaimed — 2 years earlier
- 1941 Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran — 7 years later
Africa
- 1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb — 12 years earlier
- 1935–1937 Italy invades Ethiopia — 1 year later
- 1948 Apartheid begins in South Africa — 14 years later
- 1952 Egyptian revolution of 1952 — 18 years later
- 1956 The Suez Crisis — 22 years later
Asia
- 1931 China floods — 3 years earlier
- 1931 Mukden Incident — 3 years earlier
- 1934–1935 Long March — same year
- 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — 11 years later
- 1953 First ascent of Everest — 19 years later
Americas
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 20 years earlier
- 1929 Wall Street Crash — 5 years earlier
- c. 1930–1936 Dust Bowl — 4 years earlier
- 1933–1939 New Deal — 1 year earlier
- 1945 ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer — 11 years later
Oceania
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 22 years earlier
- 1936 Death of the last thylacine — 2 years later
- 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor — 7 years later
- 1942 The Battle of Midway — 8 years later
- 1954 The Castle Bravo test at Bikini — 20 years later
Alive at the time
- Nikola Tesla (aged 78)
- Marie Curie (aged 67)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 65)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 63)
- Winston Churchill (aged 60)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 56)
- Albert Einstein (aged 55)
- Pablo Picasso (aged 53)
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (aged 53)
- Adolf Hitler (aged 45)