1935

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1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 3.1 January-February 3.2 March-August 3.3 September-December 4 Deaths 5 Nobel Prizes

Events

• January 7 - World War II: Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French foreign minister Pierre Laval conclude agreement in which each power undertakes not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
• January 7 - In the case Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan, the Supreme Court of the United States invalidates "hot oil" petroleum supply restriction orders adopted under the National Industrial Recovery Act.
• January 8 - A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.
• January 11 - Amelia Earhart is the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
• January 13 - A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany
• January 19 - Coopers Inc sold the world's first briefs.
• January - At the Tsunyi Conference, Mao Zedong assumes the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.
• January 28 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion
• February 13 - A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby boy.
• February 26 - The Luftwaffe is created as Germany's air force.
• February 28 - Nylon is discovered by Wallace Carothers
• March 16 - Adolf Hitler announces German rearmament in violation of the Versailles Treaty.
• March 21 - Persia is renamed Iran
• March 23 - Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines
• May 6 - New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
• May 14 - Filipinos ratify an independence agreement.
• May 27 - New Deal: In the case A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional.
• May 29 - Construction of Hoover Dam is completed.
• June 9 - Ho-Umezu Agreement: China's Kuomintang government concedes Japanese military control of north-eastern China.
• June 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in New York City by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.
• June 12 - Senator Huey Long of Louisiana makes the longest speech on Senate record. The speech took 15 1/2 hours and was filled by 150,000 words. [1]
• June 12 - Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
• June 18 - Anglo-German Naval Agreement: Britain agrees to a German navy equal to 35% of her own naval tonnage.
• July 27 - Federal Writers' Project established in the United States
• June or July - The Giant neotropical toad is introduced to northernQueensland, Australia to counter sugar cane beetles.
• September 2 - Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: A large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
• September 8 - US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.
• September 15 - Nuremberg Laws
• September 30 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Hoover Dam
• October 2 - Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
• October 3 - Italian army invades Ethiopia under General de Bono (replaced November 11 by Pietro Badoglio)
• October 23 - William Lyon Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada for the third time.
• November 5 - Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly.
• December 9 - Hoare-Laval Pact between Britain and France proposes Ethiopian territorial cessions to Italy.
• December 18 - Samuel Hoare resigns as British foreign secretary; replaced by Anthony Eden.
• November 3 - George II of Greece regains his throne.
• November 6 - Before the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" (see: FM radio).
• November 8 - A dozen labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress for Industrial Organization (CIO), an organization charged with pushing the cause for industrial unionism.
• November 22 - The China Clipper takes off from Alameda, California in an attempt to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean (the airplane later reached its destination, Manila, and delivered over 110,000 pieces of mail).

• 1935 in film
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Les Misérables;
  • Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps
  • Anna Karenina
  • Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
• 1935 in literature
• 1935 in music
  • Swing music evolves from jazz
• 1935 in sports
  • May 25 - In a span of 45 minutes at the Big Ten meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Jesse Owens sets or ties four track and field world records.
  • May 25 - At Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Babe Ruth hits the last of his 714 home runs, a cherished baseball mark that will stand for 39 years
  • September 3 - Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 MPH.
• 1935 in television
  • First TV broadcasts in Germany and England.
  • France begins broadcasting regular transmissions from the top of the Eiffel Tower

• January 4 - Floyd Patterson, boxing champion
• January 7 - Valeri Kubasov, cosmonaut
• January 8 - Elvis Presley, American singer
• January 12 - Kreskin, mentalist
• January 14 - Lucille Wheeler, world champion alpine skier
• January 16 - Udo Lattek, football coach
• January 16 - A.J. Foyt, automobile racer
• January 30 - Richard Brautigan, writer and poet
• February 1 - Dieter Kühn, narrator, dramatist and essayist
• February 5 - Sandra Paretti, author (d. 1994)
• February 11 - Sergio Mendes -- an alternative source gives 1941.
• February 11 - Gerry Goffin.
• February 11 - Bent Lorentzen, composer.
• February 11 - Gene Vincent, American rock guitarist/vocalist -- an alternative source gives 1943.
• February 16 - Sonny Bono, singer, actor, United States Representative
• February 25 - Sally Jessy Raphael, talk show host

• March 1 - Robert Conrad, actor
• March 1 - Judith Rossner, writer
• March 6 - Ron Delany, Irish athlete
• March 15 - Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist
• March 15 Judd Hirsch, actor
• March 22 - M. Emmet Walsh, actor
• March 24 - Peter Bichsel, writer
• March 25 - Gloria Steinem, feminist, author
• March 31 - Richard Chamberlain, actor
• March 31 - Herb Alpert, musician
• April 21 - Charles Grodin, actor, journalist
• April 23 - Bunky Green, jazz musician
• April 26 - Carol Burnett, singer, actress, comedienne
• May 12 - Source | Copyright

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