1935 - What happened in 1935 ?

January 1935

Tuesday 01:

Bucknell University wins the first Orange Bowl 26-0 over the University of Miami.

Wednesday 02:

Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh.

Tuesday 08:

A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.

Sunday 13:

A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.

Monday 28:

Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion.

February 1935

Saturday 02:

The polygraph machine is tested for the first time. Leonard Keeler conducted the experiment in Portage, Wisconsin.

Wednesday 13:

A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.

Tuesday 26:

Robert Watson-Watt carried out a demonstration which led directly to the development of RADAR in Britain.

Thursday 28:

Nylon is discovered by Wallace Carothers.

March 1935

Saturday 16:

Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty.

Thursday 21:

Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asked the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans'.

Saturday 23:

Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines

April 1935

Monday 08:

The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.

Sunday 14:

Babe Ruth played his first National League game in Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. He was playing for the Boston Braves, not his old team the Red Sox, in this, his last year of pro ball in the major leagues. In this season, Ruth played 28 games, getting 13 hits and six home runs, before retiring.

Tuesday 16:

Radio program Fibber McGee and Molly debuts.

Tuesday 23:

Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.

May 1935

Monday 06:

New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

Tuesday 14:

The Filipinos ratify an independence agreement.

Saturday 25:

Babe Ruth hits his 714th and last home run at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, setting a baseball record that will stand for 39 years.

Monday 27:

New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in the case A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).

Thursday 30:

Babe Ruth plays in his last baseball game, in the uniform of the Boston Braves.

June 1935

Sunday 02:

Baseballer Babe Ruth announces he is going to retire from the sport.

Friday 07:

Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of France.

Monday 10:

Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.

Wednesday 12:

Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay, fighting since 1932.

Thursday 13:

In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the 10 to 1 underdog James J. Braddock defeated Max Baer in Long Island City, New York, and became the heavyweight champion of the world.

July 1935

Monday 01:

Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.

Wednesday 24:

The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (44°C) in Chicago, Illinois and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

August 1935

Wednesday 14:

United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired

September 1935

Monday 02:

Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: A large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.

Tuesday 03:

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

Sunday 08:

US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.

Sunday 15:

Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika.

Monday 30:

"The Adventures of Dick Tracy" is first heard on the Mutual Radio Network.

October 1935

Thursday 03:

Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono (replaced November 11 by Pietro Badoglio).

Monday 07:

Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series.

Sunday 20:

The Long March ends

Wednesday 23:

Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosenkrantz are fatally shot in a bar in Newark in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre

Thursday 24:

Italy invades Ethiopia

November 1935

Sunday 03:

George II of Greece regains his throne.

Wednesday 06:

Before the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" (see: FM radio).

Friday 08:

Fernand Bouisson becomes Prime Minister of France

Friday 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).

Sunday 24:

The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.

December 1935

Tuesday 17:

First flight of the Douglas DC-3.

Saturday 21:

First screening of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first feature-length animated movie.