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.