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1935

Year 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Events of 1935

January

January - Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia creates a military school at Holeta.^[1]
January 1 - The Italian colonies of Tripoli and Cyrenaica are joined together as Libya.
January 2 - The trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, accused of the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., begins in Flemington, New Jersey.
January 4 - Dry Tortugas National Park is established.
January 7 - Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
January 11 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.

Jan.11: Amelia Earhart flies from Hawaii.

January 13 - A plebiscite in the Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
January 16 - The FBI kills the Barker Gang, including Ma Barker, in a shootout.
January 19 - Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.
January 28 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion on medical grounds.

February

February 13 - Bruno Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr.
February 15 - The discovery and clinical development of Prontosil, the first broadly effective antibacterial drug, is published in a series of articles in Germany's pre-eminent medical journal, Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, by Gerhard Domagk.
February 22 - Airplanes are banned from flying over the White House.

March

March - Anastasios Papoulas leads a coup against the Greek government; however, the attempt fails and he is later captured and executed for treason.
March 2 - King Prajadhipok (Rama VII) of Siam abdicates the throne. He is succeeded by his 9-year-old-nephew Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII).
March 2 - Porky Pig makes his debut in Looney Tunes's I Haven't Got a Hat.
March 16 - Adolf Hitler announces German rearmament in violation of the Versailles Treaty.
March 19 - A riot breaks out in Harlem, NYC, after a rumor

that police killed a shoplifter in the S. H. Kress & Co. department store circulates.

March 21 - Persia is renamed Iran.

April

Dust storm approaching Spearman, Texas.

April 14 - Dust Bowl: The great dust storm, made famous by Woody Guthrie in his "dust bowl ballads", hits eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma the hardest.
April 16 - Fibber McGee and Molly debuts on NBC Radio.
April 17 - Sun Myung Moon claims to have a revelation from Jesus telling him to complete his mission from almost 2,000 years ago.
April 29 - The first edition of the Vuelta a España is raced and goes on to become one of the 3 Grand Tours of road bicycle racing.

May

May 6 - New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
May 14 - Northamptonshire gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proves to be their last victory for 99 matches, easily a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win is not until 29 May 1939.
May 19 - T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) dies in a motorcycle accident.
May 24 - The first nighttime Major League Baseball game is played between the Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio.
May 25 - Babe Ruth hits his 714th home run.
May 27 - Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (aka the "Sick Chicken Case"): The U.S. Supreme Court declares the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional.
May 31 - A 7.1 magnitude earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan, killing 40,000.

June

June 9 - He-Umezu Agreement: China's Kuomintang government concedes Japanese military control of north-eastern China.
June 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, OH by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.
June 12 - Senator Huey Long of Louisiana makes the longest speech on Senate record, taking 15½ hours and containing 150,000 words. http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Huey_Long_Filibusters.htm
June 13 - James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer at Madison Square Garden Bowl to win the boxing heavyweight championship of the world.
June 16 - Deportivo Saprissa is founded by Roberto Fernández in his shoe store in El Barrio Los Angeles in San Jose, Costa Rica.
June 18 - Anglo-German Naval Agreement: Britain agrees to a German navy equal to 35% of her own naval tonnage.

July

July 5
- Oliveira Salazar becomes the de facto dictator of fascist Portugal.
- The National Labor Relations Act becomes law in the United States.
July 16 - The world's first parking meters are installed in Oklahoma City.
July 24
- The world's first children's railway is opened in Tbilisi, USSR.
- The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures in Chicago, Illinois to a record-high 109°F (44°C).
July 27 - Federal Writers' Project is established in the United States.
June or July - The Giant neotropical toad is introduced to northern Queensland, Australia to counter sugar cane beetles.
July 30 - The first Penguin paperback books are published.

August

August 5 - The Leo Burnett Advertising Agency opens in Chicago, Illinois.
August 14 - United States President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law.
August 15 - Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post are killed when Post's plane crashes shortly after takeoff near Barrow, Alaska.

September

September 2 - Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: The strongest hurricane ever to strike the United States landfalls in the Upper Florida Keys as a Category 5 storm with 185 mph winds, killing 423.
September 8 - Carl Weiss kills Huey Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana ("The Kingfish"), in the Louisiana Capitol Building in Baton Rouge.
September 13 - Howard Hughes, flying the Hughes H-1 Racer, sets an airspeed record of 352 mph (566 km/h).
September 15 - The Nuremberg Laws go into effect in Germany.
September 24 - Earl Bascom and his brother Weldon Bascom produce the first night rodeo held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi.
September 30 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Hoover Dam.

October

October 22 page from a Soviet revolutionary calendar with six-day weeks.

October 2-3 - The Italian army invades Ethiopia under General de Bono (replaced November 11 by Pietro Badoglio).
October 10 - A tornado destroys the 160 metre tall wooden radio tower in Langenberg, Germany. As a result of this catastrophe wooden radio towers are phased out.

November

November 5 - Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly.
November 8 - A dozen labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), an organization charged with pushing the cause for industrial unionism.
November 14 In the General Election in Britain, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin returns to office at the head of a National Government led by the Conservative Party with a large but reduced majority.
November 22 - The China Clipper takes off from Alameda, California in an attempt to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean (the aircraft later reaches its destination, Manila, and delivers over 110,000 pieces of mail).
November 30 - The 1935 British-made film Scrooge, the first all-talking film version of Charles Dickens classic, opens in the U.S. after its British release. Seymour Hicks plays Scrooge, a role he has played onstage hundreds of times. The film is criticized by some for not showing all of the ghosts physically, and quickly fades into obscurity. Widespread interest in it does not surface until the film is shown on television in the 1980s, in very shabby-looking prints. It is eventually restored on DVD, but the criticisms of it remain.

December

December 9 - American newspaper editor Walter Liggett is killed in a gangland murder plot.
December 18
- Samuel Hoare resigns as British foreign secretary and is replaced by Anthony Eden.
- The socialist party of Sri Lanka, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party founded.
December 27 - Mao Zedong issues the Wayaopao Manifesto, On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism, calling for a National United Front against the Japanese Invasion.
December 28 - Pravda publishes a letter from Pavel Postyshev, who revives the New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.

Undated

Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women.

Births

January?February

January 4 - Floyd Patterson, African-American boxer (d. 2006)
January 7
- Valeri Kubasov, Russian cosmonaut
- Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist
January 8 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
January 9
- Earl G. Graves, Sr. African-American publisher (Black Enterprise)
- Bob Denver, American actor (Gilligan's Island) (d. 2005)
January 10
- Ronnie Hawkins, American musician
- Sherrill Milnes, American baritone
January 12 - The Amazing Kreskin, American mentalist
January 14 - Lucille Wheeler, Canadian skier
January 16
- A.J. Foyt, American race car driver
- Udo Lattek, German football coach
January 17 - Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware
January 18 - Jon Stallworthy, English poet
January 30 - Richard Brautigan, American writer (d. 1984)
January 31 - Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate
February 4 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (d. 1989)
February 11
- Gerry Goffin, American songwriter (Pleasant Valley Sunday)
- Gene Vincent, American guitarist and vocalist (Be Bop A Lula) (d. 1971)
February 14 - Rob McConnell, Canadian jazz musician
February 16 - Sonny Bono, American singer, actor, and politician (The Sonny and Cher Show) (d. 1998)
February 17 - Christina Pickles, British actress
February 25 - Sally Jessy Raphaël, American talk show host
February 27 - Mirella Freni, Italian soprano

March?April

March 1
- Robert Conrad, American actor (The Wild Wild West)
- Judith Rossner, American writer (d. 2005)
March 4 - Bent Larsen, Danish chess player
March 6 - Ron Delany, Irish runner
March 15
- Jimmy Swaggart, American televangelist
- Judd Hirsch, American actor (Taxi)
March 18 - Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician
March 22 - M. Emmet Walsh, American actor
March 24 - Peter Bichsel, Swiss writer
March 26 - Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority
March 27
- Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer
- Julian Glover, English actor
March 31
- Richard Chamberlain, American actor (Dr. Kildare)
- Herb Alpert, American trumpeter (Tijuana Brass)
April 18 - Paul A. Rothchild, American record producer (d. 1995)
April 19 - Dudley Moore, British actor (Arthur) (d. 2002)
April 21
- Charles Grodin, American actor and journalist
- Thomas Kean, former Governor of New Jersey and 9/11 Commission Chairman
April 22 - Paul Chambers, American jazz musician
April 23 - Bunky Green, American jazz musician
April 25 - April Ashley, English model

May?June

May 2 - Lance LeGault, American actor
May 7 - Isobel Warren, Canadian author
May 11 - Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist, novelist, biographer and essayist (d. 2007)
May 12 - Felipe Alou, Dominican Major League Baseball manager
May 17
- Ryke Geerd Hamer, German cancer researcher
- Dennis Potter, English writer (d. 1994)
May 20 - Marinella, Greek singer
May 24 - Joan Micklin Silver, American director
May 25 - Cookie Gilchrist, American football player
May 27 - Lee Meriwether, American beauty queen and actress
June 2
- Carol Shields, American-born writer (d. 2003)
- Roger Brierley, English actor (d. 2005)
June 13 - Samak Sundaravej, Thai 25th Prime Minister (former)

Christo (born as Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, Bulgarian: ?????? ??????) Jeanne-Claude (born as Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon)

June 18 - John Spencer, British snooker player (d. 2006)
June 19 - Derren Nesbitt, British actor
June 21 - Françoise Sagan, French writer (d. 2004)
June 24 - Ron Kramer, former National Football League tight end
June 27 - Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (d. 2007)
June 28 - John Inman, British comedian (d. 2007)

July?August

July 6 - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
July 8 - Vitali Sevastyanov, Russian cosmonaut
July 9 - Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and politician (d. 2005)
July 9 - Slinger Francisco, Grenadian singer
July 11 - Oliver Napier, Northern Irish politician
July 13 - Jack Kemp, American football player and U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
July 15 - William G. Stewart, British television producer and presenter
July 17
- Peter Schickele, American composer and comedian
- Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
July 18 - Jayendra Saraswathi, Hindu religious leader
July 27 - Billy McCullough, Northern Irish footballer
July 28 - Simon Dee, British television presenter
July 29 - Peter Schreier, German tenor
August 1 - Mohinder Pratap Chand, Famous Urdu Poet, Advocate of Urdu Language (b. 1935)
August 3 - Georgi Shonin, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1997)
August 13 - Rod Hull, British entertainer (d. 1999)
August 15
- Abby Dalton, American actress and former mother-in-law of Lorenzo Lamas
- Jim Dale, English actor, singer and songwriter
- Lionel Taylor, American football player
August 18 - Rafer Johnson, American athlete
August 19 - Bobby Richardson, baseball player
August 20 - Ron Paul, influential American Congressman, doctor and two-time Presidential candidate
August 22 - E. Annie Proulx, American author
August 26 - Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Congresswoman and Vice Presidential candidate
August 30 - John Phillips, American singer (d. 2001)
August 31
- Eldridge Cleaver, African-American activist (d. 1998)
- Frank Robinson, African-American baseball player