1935

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: In the case
     Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan, 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 - 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 under Kuomintang government concedes
     Japanese military control of north-eastern China.
   * June 18 - Anglo-German Naval Agreement: Britain agrees to a German navy
     equal to 35% of her own naval tonnage.
   * June or July - The Giant neotropical toad is introduced to northern
     Queensland, 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 - Antisemitic laws of Nuremberg
   * 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 Badaglio)
   * October 23 - William Lyon Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime
     Minister of Canada for the third time.
   * 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.

Art, Culture & Fashion

   * 1935 in film
        o Mutiny on the Bounty
        o A Midsummer Night's Dream
        o Les MisŽrables
        o Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps
        o Anna Karenina
        o Judy Garland signs a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM).
   * 1935 in music
        o Swing music evolves from jazz
   * 1935 in sports
        o 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.
        o 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
        o 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
        o First TV broadcasts in Germany and England.
        o France begins broadcasting regular transmissions from the top of
          the Eiffel Tower

Births

   * January 4 - Floyd Patterson, boxing champion
   * January 7 - Valeri Kubasov, cosmonaut
   * January 8 - Elvis Presley, American singer
   * January 12 - Kreskin, mentalist
   * January 16 - Udo Lattek, football coach
   * January 16 - A.J. Foyt, automobile racer
   * January 30 - Richard Brautigan, writer and poet
   * February 1 - Dieter Kźhn, narrator, dramatist and essayist
   * February 5 - Sandra Paretti, author (+ 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 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 23 - Bunky Green, jazz musician
   * April 26 - Carol Burnett, singer, actress, comedienne
   * May 17 - Dennis Potter, writer
   * July 8 - Vitali Sevastyanov, cosmonaut
   * July 17 - Peter Schickele, composer
   * August 3 - Georgi Shonin, cosmonaut
   * September 11 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut
   * September 16 - Carl Andre, artist
   * September 17 - Ken Kesey, author
   * October 6 - Bruno Sammartino, former professional wrestler
   * October 12 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian opera singer
   * October 14 - La Monte Young, composer
   * October 29 - Takahata Isao, Japanese director of animated movies
   * November 10 - Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian theoretical
     astrophysicist, cosmologist
   * November 23 - Vladislav Volkov, cosmonaut
   * December 1 - Woody Allen, American film director

Deaths

   * March 12 - Michel Pupin, telephone pioneer
   * March 22 - Aleksander Moisiu, Albanian stage actor
   * May 12 - Marshall Jozef Pilsudski, Polish political leader
   * May 17 - Paul Dukas, French composer
   * May 18 - T. E. Lawrence, soldier ("Lawrence of Arabia")
   * May 21 - Jane Addams, social worker
   * July 3 - AndrŽ Citro‘n, automobile pioneer
   * July 12 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer
   * August 29 - Queen Astrid of Belgium
   * August 30 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist
   * December 21 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist
   * December 24 - Alban Berg, aged 50, Austrian composer

Nobel Prizes

   * Physics - James Chadwick
   * Chemistry - FrŽdŽric Joliot, IrŹne Joliot-Curie
   * Medicine - Hans Spemann
   * Literature - not awarded
   * Peace - Carl von Ossietzky

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