1935
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'''1935''' '''(MCMXXXV)''' was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).
Events
January
January 1 - Italian colonies of Tripoli and Kyrenaika are joined together as Libya
January 7 - Italy|Italian premier Benito Mussolini and France|French foreign minister Pierre Laval conclude agreement in which each power undertakes not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
January 8( Elvis Presley is born in Tupelo, Mississippi.)
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 - Bloopers Inc. sold the world's first briefs.
January 28 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion on medical grounds
February-May
February - National Periodical Publications (later known as DC Comics) publishes its first comic book, ''New Fun Comics'', the first comic book featuring original material.
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 Antarctica
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 Germany|German rearmament in violation of the Versailles Treaty.
March 19 - Riot breaks out in Harlem, NYC after a rumor that claims that police killed a shoplifting|shoplifter in the Kress' departmnt store
March 21 - Iran|Persia is renamed Iran
April 14 - Dust Bowl: The great dust storm, made famous by Woody Guthrie in his "dust bowl ballads". The hardest hit areas were where in Eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma.
April 25 - A shark on display at the Coogee Aquarium in Sydney disgorges the tattooed arm of ex-boxer James Smith. Man suspected of murdering him, Reg Holmes is shot dead before murder inquest is held.
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 - United States Senate|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. http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Huey_Long_Filibusters.htm June 18 - Anglo-German Naval Agreement: United Kingdom|Britain agrees to a Germany|German navy equal to 35% of her own naval tonnage.
July 5 - Oliveira Salazar becomes de dacto dictator of fascist Portugal
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 Delano Roosevelt|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 fatally shot United States Senate|US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", in the Louisiana capitol building.
September 13 - Howard Hughes sets new aviation speed record in his H-1.
September 15 - Nuremberg Laws
September 30 - U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Hoover Dam
October 2-October 3|3 - Italy|Italian army invades Ethiopia under Emilio De Bono|General de Bono (replaced November 11 by Pietro Badoglio)
October 10 - A tornado destroyed the 160 metre tall wooden radio tower in Transmitter Langenberg|Langenberg, Germany. As a result of this catastrophe, nearly no more wooden radio towers are built any more.
November-December
November 5 - Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly (game)|Monopoly.
November 8 - A dozen labor union|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 14 In General Election in Britain, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin returned to office at the head of a National Government led by the Conservative Party (UK)|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 airplane later reached its destination, Manila, and delivered over 110,000 pieces of mail).
November 24 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
December 18 - Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood|Samuel Hoare resigns as United Kingdom|British foreign secretary; replaced by Anthony Eden. The socialist party of Sri Lanka, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party founded.
December 27 - Mao Zedong issues the Wayaopao|Wayaopao Manifesto: ''On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism'', calling for a National United Front against Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)|Japanese Invasion.
unknown dates
First Penguin Books|Penguin paperback books
Mary McCleod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women
Births
January-February
January 4 - Floyd Patterson, American boxer
January 7 - Valeri Kubasov, cosmonaut
January 7 - Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist
January 8 - Elvis Presley, American singer (d. 1977)
January 9 - Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005)
January 10 - Ronnie Hawkins, American musician
January 10 - Sherrill Milnes, American baritone
January 12 - Kreskin, mentalist
January 14 - Lucille Wheeler, Canadian skier
January 16 - A.J. Foyt, American race car driver
January 16 - Udo Lattek, football coach
January 17 - Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware
January 30 - Richard Brautigan, American writer (d. 1984)
January 31 - Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize laureate
February 4 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (d. 1989)
February 11 - Gerry Goffin, American songwriter
February 11 - Gene Vincent, American guitarist and vocalist
February 16 - Sonny Bono, American singer, actor, and politician (d. 1998)
February 25 - Sally Jessy Raphaël, American talk show host
February 27 - Mirella Freni, Italian soprano
March-July
March 1 - Robert Conrad, American actor
March 1 - Judith Rossner, American writer (d. 2005)
March 6 - Ron Delany, Irish runner
March 15 - Jimmy Swaggart, American televangelist
March 15 - Judd Hirsch, American actor
March 22 - M. Emmet Walsh, American actor
March 24 - Peter Bichsel, Swiss writer
March 25 - Gloria Steinem, American feminist and author
March 26 - Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority
March 27 - Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer
March 31 - Richard Chamberlain, American actor
March 31 - Herb Alpert, American trumpeter
April 21 - Charles Grodin, American actor and journalist
April 21 - Thomas Kean, Governor of New Jersey
April 23 - Bunky Green, American jazz musician
May 2 - Lance LeGault, American actor
May 12 - Felipe Alou, Dominican Major League Baseball manager
May 17 - Ryke Geerd Hamer, German cancer researcher
May 17 - Dennis Potter, English writer (d. 1994)
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)
June 19 - Derren Nesbitt, British actor
June 21 - Françoise Sagan, French writer (d. 2004)
July 6 - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
July 8 - Vitali Sevastyanov, cosmonaut
July 9 - Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and politician (d. 2005)
July 13 - Jack Kemp, American football player
July 17 - Peter Schickele, American composer and comedian
July 17 - Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
July 18 - Jayendra Saraswathi, Hindu religious leader
July 28 - Simon Dee, British television presenter
July 29 - Peter Schreier, German tenor
August-October
August 3 - Georgi Shonin, cosmonaut (d. 1997)
August 15 - Lionel Taylor, American football player
August 18 - Rafer Johnson, American athlete
August 19 - Bobby Richardson, baseball player
August 20 - Ron Paul, American politician
August 30 - John Phillips (musician)|John Phillips, American singer (d. 2001)
August 31 - Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (d. 1998)
August 31 - Frank Robinson, baseball player
September 1 - Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
September 11 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut (d. 2000)
September 11 - Arvo Pärt, estonian composer
September 16 - Carl Andre, American artist
September 16 - Bob Kiley, American public transit planner
September 17 - Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)
September 17 - Serge Klarsfeld, Romanian Nazi hunter
September 30 - ZZ Hill, American musician
September 30 - Johnny Mathis, American singer
October 1 - Julie Andrews, English singer and actress
October 6 - Bruno Sammartino, Italian professional wrestler
October 9- Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
October 12 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor
October 14 - La Monte Young, American composer
October 15 - Bobby Joe Morrow, American athlete
October 15 - Willie O'Ree, Canadian hockey player
October 18 - Peter Boyle, American actor
October 20 - Jerry Orbach, American actor (d. 2004)
October 29 - Takahata Isao, Japanese animated film director
October 30 - Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer
October 31 - Ronald Graham, American mathematician
November-December
November 1 - Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (d. 2003)
November 9 - Bob Gibson, baseball player
November 10 - Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist
November 13 - George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury
November 14 - King Hussein of Jordan (d. 1999)
November 17 - Toni Sailer, Austrian skier
November 23 - Vladislav Volkov, cosmonaut
December 1 - Woody Allen, American film director
December 8 - Dharmendra, Indian actor
December 11 - Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician
December 19 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (d. 1974)
December 23 - Paul Hornung, American football player
December 30 - Omar Bongo, President of Gabon
December 30 - Sandy Koufax, baseball player
Deaths
January 28 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (b. 1859)
March 6 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1841)
March 16 - John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
March 22 - Aleksander Moisiu, Albanian actor (b. 1879)
April 14 - Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)
May 12 - Marshall Jozef Pilsudski, Polish politician (b. 1867)
May 17 - Paul Dukas, French composer (b. 1865)
May 18 - T. E. Lawrence, English soldier (Lawrence of Arabia) (b. 1888)
May 19 - Charles Martin Loeffler, American composer (b. 1861)
May 21 - Jane Addams, American social worker, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860)
May 29 - Josef Suk (composer)|Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (b. 1874)
July 3 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
July 12 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (b. 1859)
August 29 - Astrid of the Belgians|Queen Astrid of Belgium (b. 1905)
August 30 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
September 28 - W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (b. 1860)
November 2 - Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
October 20 - Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
November 28 - Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1877)
December 2 - James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (b. 1865)
December 4 - Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (b. 1864)
December 4 - Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
December 13 - Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
December 17 - Juan Vicente Gómez, Venezuelan military and dictador (b. 1857)
December 21 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist (b. 1890)
December 24 - Alban Berg, Austrian composer (b. 1885)
Nobel Prizes
Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics - James Chadwick
Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry - Frédéric Joliot, Irène Joliot-Curie
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine - Hans Spemann
Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature - not awarded
Nobel Peace Prize|Peace - Carl von Ossietzky
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