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Historical Events for the Year 1935

  • 2nd January » Richard Hauptmann named Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Lindbergh kidnapping known as Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
  • 7th January » Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
  • 11th January » Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
  • 13th January » A Referendum called plebiscite in Saar (League of Nations) known as Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
  • 28th January » Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
  • 2nd February » Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine.
  • 7th February » The classic board game Monopoly (game) e.g Monopoly is invented.
  • 12th February » USS Macon ZRS-5 6, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
  • 13th February » A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh kidnapping e.g Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
  • 20th February » Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
  • 26th February » Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
  • 26th February » Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
  • 28th February » DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
  • 16th March » Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
  • 21st March » Shah of Iran Rezā Shāh called Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, meaning "Land of the Aryans".
  • 23rd March » Signing of the Constitution of the Philippines Commonwealth and Third Republic e.g Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
  • 8th April » The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
  • 12th April » First flight of the Bristol Aeroplane Company named Bristol Bristol Blenheim named Blenheim.
  • 14th April » "Black Sunday (storm) e.g Black Sunday Storm", the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
  • 15th April » Roerich Pact signed in Washington, D.C.
  • 23rd April » The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
  • 6th May » New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration.
  • 6th May » The first flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk. Image:Hindenburg burning.jpg named thumb or 'Hindenburg' disaster
  • 12th May » Bill W. or Bill Wilson and Bob Smith (doctor) named Dr. Bob Smith (founders of Alcoholics Anonymous) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling.
  • 14th May » The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
  • 15th May » The Moscow Metro is opened to the public.
  • 24th May » The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 at Crosley Field.
  • 25th May » Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and field known as Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  • 27th May » New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
  • 29th May » First flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aeroplane.
  • 31st May » A 7.7 moment magnitude scale called Mw 1935 Balochistan earthquake or earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
  • 3rd June » One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
  • 10th June » Dr. Bob Smith (doctor) Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill W. Bill Wilson.
  • 10th June » Chaco War ends: a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
  • 11th June » Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of Frequency modulation known as FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
  • 18th June » Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Battle of Ballantyne Pier or clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
  • 25th June » Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established.
  • 1st July » Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
  • 5th July » The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • 20th July » Switzerland: A KLM or Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
  • 24th July » The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (43°C) in Chicago known as Chicago, Illinois and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee called Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  • 28th July » First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
  • 14th August » Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
  • 15th August » Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
  • 31st August » In an attempt to stay out of the growing turmoil in Europe, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts of 1930s e.g Neutrality Acts.
  • 2nd September » Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: a large tropical cyclone named hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
  • 3rd September » Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph.
  • 8th September » United States Senate known as US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.
  • 13th September » Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York–Ontario).
  • 15th September » The Nuremberg Laws deprive History of the Jews in Germany named German Jews of citizenship.
  • 15th September » Nazi Germany adopts a new Flag of Germany or national flag bearing the swastika.
  • 24th September » Earl W. Bascom called Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
  • 30th September » The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
  • 19th October » The League of Nations places economic sanctions on Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946) called fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
  • 20th October » The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Communist Party of China called Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends.
  • 23rd October » Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard Rosencrantz called Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a Bar (establishment) known as saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre.
  • 3rd November » George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possible fixed, Greek monarchy referendum, 1935 known as plebiscite.
  • 6th November » Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "FM broadcasting or A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
  • 6th November » First flight of the Hawker Hurricane, with its Hawker Hurricane Origins called 'K5083' first prototype.
  • 6th November » Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for Monopoly (game) or Monopoly from Elizabeth Magie.
  • 9th November » The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
  • 15th November » Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second President of the Philippines.
  • 22nd November » The 'China Clipper', the first plane to offer commercial transpacific air service, takes off from China Clipper flight departure site or Alameda, California, for its first commercial flight. It reaches its destination, Manila, a week later.
  • 24th November » The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
  • 9th December » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
  • 9th December » The Downtown Athletic Club named Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded for the first time. The winner is halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
  • 12th December » Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.
  • 17th December » First flight of the Douglas DC-3.
  • 18th December » The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Sri Lanka named Ceylon.
  • 28th December » 'Pravda' publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.