1935

1935 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 - 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 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 German rearmament in violation of the Versailles Treaty.
• March 21 - Persia is renamed Iran
• 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 - 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]
• 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 fatally shot 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 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 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).
• December 18 - Samuel Hoare resigns as British foreign secretary; replaced by Anthony Eden.
• December 27 - Mao Zedong issues the Wayaopao Manifesto: On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism, calling for a National United Front against Japanese Invasion.

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, American boxer
• January 7 - Valeri Kubasov, cosmonaut
• January 8 - Elvis Presley, American singer (d. 1977)
• 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 30 - Richard Brautigan, American writer (d. 1984)
• 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 - Gerry Goffin, American songwriter
• February 11 - Damian Mercer, firefighter and composer
• 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, writer
• 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 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
• April 26 - Carol Burnett, American singer, actress, and comedienne
• 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, actress and Miss America
• June 24 - Gene Miller, Grandpa
• June 30 - Avery Floyd, husband, father, grandpa, ruler of all fisheries
• July 6 - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th and current Dalai Lama
• July 8 - Vitali Sevastyanov, cosmonaut
• 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 29 - Peter Schreier, German tenor

August-October

• August 3 - Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1997)
• August 15 - Lionel Taylor, American football player
• August 18 - Rafer Johnson, American decathlete
• August 19 - Bobby Richardson, baseball player
• August 20 - Ron Paul, American politician
• August 30 - John Phillips, American vocalist (d. 2001)
• August 31 - Eldridge Cleaver, American black activist (d. 1998)
  • Frank Robinson, baseball player
• September 1 - Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
• September 11 - Gherman Titov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2000)
• September 16 - Carl Andre, American artist
  • Bob Kiley, public transit planner
• September 17 - Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)
  • Serge Klarsfeld, Romanian Nazi hunter
• September 30 - ZZ Hill, American blues musician
• 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
  • 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 director of animated films
• October 31 - Ronald Graham, mathematician

November-December

• November 9 - Bob Gibson, Baseball Hall of Famer
• November 10 - Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Soviet theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist
• November 13 - George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury
• November 14 - HM King Hussein bin Talal 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

Deaths

• January 28 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (b. 1859)
• March 6 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., United States Supreme Court justice (b. 1841)
• March 12 - Michel Pupin, telephone pioneer
• March 22 - Aleksander Moisiu, Albanian stage 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 (b. 1860)
• May 29 - 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 - 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 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 13 - Victor Grignard, French chemist, 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

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