1935 - Definition and Overview

Events

January

• January 1 - Italian colonies of Tripoli and Kyrenaika are joined together as Libya
• January 7 - 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 8 - A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.
• January 11 - Amelia Earhart is the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
• January 16 - FBI kills Barker gang, including Ma Barker, in a shootout
• January 19 - Coopers Inc. sold the world's first briefs.
• January 28 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion on medical grounds

February-May

• 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 20 - Karoline Mikkelsen arrives on Antartica

• February 26 - The Luftwaffe is created as Germany's air force. (March 11?)
• 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
• May 6 - New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
• May 29 - Construction of Hoover Dam is completed
• May 30 - Earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan - 26.000 dead

June-August

• 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] (http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Huey_Long_Filibusters.htm)
• June 18 - Anglo-German Naval Agreement: Britain agrees to a German navy equal to 35% of her own naval tonnage.
• July 16 - World's first parking meters in Oklahoma City
• July 24 - 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 established in the United States
• June or July - The Giant neotropical toad is introduced to northernQueensland, Australia to counter sugar cane beetles.
• August 14 - United States President Franklin Roosevelt signs Social Security Act into law.

September-October

• September 2 - Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: A large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
• September 8 - Carl Weiss shoot fatally US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", 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)

November-December

• November 5 - Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly.
• 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).
• December 18 - Samuel Hoare resigns as British foreign secretary; replaced by Anthony Eden.

unknown dates

• First Penguin paperback books
• Mary McCleod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women

Year in topic

• 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 rail transport
  • General Motors builds a new manufacturing plant in LaGrange, Illinois, to house the Electro-Motive Division.
• 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 (489.773 km/h) on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph (483 km/h).
• 1935 in television
  • First TV broadcasts in Germany and Britain.
  • France begins broadcasting regular transmissions from the top of the Eiffel Tower

Births

January-February

• January 4 - Floyd Patterson, boxing champion
• January 7 - Valeri Kubasov, cosmonaut
• January 8 - Elvis Presley, American rock 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 race driver
• January 30 - Richard Brautigan, writer and poet
• February 1 - Dieter Kühn, narrator, dramatist and essayist
• February 4 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (d. 1989)
• 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), 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
• February 27 - Mirella Freni, Italian soprano

March-July

• March 1 - Robert Conrad, actor
• March 1 - Judith Rossner, writer
• March 6 - Ron Delany, Irish middle-distance runner
• 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 26 - Mahmoud Abbas, President of Palestine National Authority
• 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 - Felipe Alou, Major League Baseball manager
• May 17 - Dennis Potter, writer
• May 25 - Cookie Gilchrist, American football player
• May 27 - Lee Meriwether, actor and Miss America
• July 8 - Vitali Sevastyanov, cosmonaut
• July 13 - Jack Kemp, former U.S. Vice Presidential candidate, American football quarterback
• July 17 - Peter Schickele, composer
• July 17 - Donald Sutherland, actor
• July 18 - Jayendra Saraswathi, Hindu religious leader
• July 29 - Peter Schreier, German tenor

August-October

• August 3 - Georgi Shonin, cosmonaut
• August 15 - Lionel Taylor, American football player
• August 18 - Rafer Johnson, American decathlete
• August 20 - Ron Paul, American politician
• August 31 - Eldridge Cleaver, founding member of the Black Panther Party, United States Peace and Freedom Party Presidential candidate and candidate for the Republican nomination for the position of Senator from California.
• August 31 - Frank Robinson, Baseball Hall of Famer
• September 1 - Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
• September 11 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut
• September 16 - Carl Andre, artist
• September 16 - Bob Kiley, public transit planner
• September 17 - Ken Kesey, author
• September 30 - ZZ Hill, blues musician
• October 1 - Julie Andrews. singer, actress, author of children's books
• October 6 - Bruno Sammartino, former professional wrestler
• October 9- His Royal Highness Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
• October 12 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian opera singer
• October 14 - La Monte Young, composer
• October 15 - Willie O'Ree, hockey player, first black person to play in the NHL
• October 15 - Bobby Joe Morrow, American athlete
• October 18 - Peter Boyle, actor (Everybody Loves Raymond)
• October 20 - Jerry Orbach, actor (Law & Order) (d. 2004)
• October 29 - Takahata Isao, Japanese director of animated movies

November-December

• November 9 - Bob Gibson, Baseball Hall of Fame
• November 10 - Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Soviet theoretical astrophysicist, cosmologist
• November 14 - King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
• November 17 - Toni Sailer, alpine ski champion
• November 23 - Vladislav Volkov, cosmonaut
• December 1 - Woody Allen, American film director
• December 11 - Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician
• December 19 - Bobby Timmons, jazz pianist (d. 1974)
• December 23 - Paul Hornung, American football player
• December 30 - Omar Bongo, President of Gabon

Deaths

• March 6 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Supreme Court justice (b. 1841)
• 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 19 - Charles Martin Loeffler, American composer
• May 21 - Jane Addams, social worker
• May 29 - Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (b. 1874)
• July 3 - André Citroën, automobile pioneer
• July 12 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer
• August 29 - Queen Astrid of Belgium
• August 30 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist
• November 28 - Erich von Hornbostel, musicologist
• December 4 - Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer
• December 21 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist
• December 24 - Alban Berg, aged 50, Austrian composer

• James Henry Breasted, Egyptologist (b. 1865)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - James Chadwick
• Chemistry - Frédéric Joliot, Irène Joliot-Curie
• Medicine - Hans Spemann
• Literature - not awarded
• Peace - Carl von Ossietzky