1935

1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar).

Events

January

• January 1 - Italian colonies of Tripoli and Cyrenaica 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 - Elvis Presley is born in a two room shotgun house in Tupelo, Mississippi.
• January 8 - A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer
• January 11 - Amelia Earhart becomes 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. sells the world's first briefs
• January 28 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion on medical grounds

February

• 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

• March - Anastasios Papoulas leads a coup against the Greek government, however the attempt fails and he is later captured and executed for treason.
• March 2 - King Prajadhipok (Rama VII) of Siam abdicates the throne. He is succeeded by his 9 year old nephew Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII).
• March 16 - Adolf Hitler announces German rearmament in violation of the Versailles Treaty.
• March 19 - Riot breaks out in Harlem, NYC after a rumor which claims that police killed a shoplifter in the Kress' department store circulates
• March 21 - Persia is renamed Iran

April

Dust storm approaching Spearman, Texas

• 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 16 - Fibber McGee and Molly debuts on NBC Radio.
• April 17 - Sun Myung Moon claims to have a revelation from Jesus telling him to complete his mission from almost 2000 years ago.

May

• May 6 - New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
• May 14 - Northamptonshire gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proved to be their last victory for 99 matches, easily a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win was not until 29 May 1939.
• May 27 - In the case of Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, aka the "Sick Chicken Case", U.S. Supreme Court declares the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional.
• May 30 - Earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan - 26,000 dead

June

• 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 15½ 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

• July 5 - Oliveira Salazar becomes de facto dictator of fascist Portugal
• July 16 - World's first parking meters in Oklahoma City
• July 24 - The world's first children's railway is opened in Tbilisi, USSR.
• 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 northern Queensland, Australia to counter sugar cane beetles.

August

• August 14 - United States President Franklin Roosevelt signs Social Security Act into law.
• August 15 - Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post are killed when Post's plane crashes shortly after takeoff near Barrow, Alaska.

September

• September 2 - Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: A large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
• September 8 - Carl Weiss fatally shoots US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", in the Louisiana capitol building in Baton Rouge.
• September 13 - Howard Hughes sets new aviation speed record in his H-1.
• September 15 - Nuremberg Laws
• September 24 - Earl Bascom and his brother Weldon Bascom produced the first night rodeo held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
• September 30 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Hoover Dam

October

• October 2-3 - Italian army invades Ethiopia under General de Bono (replaced November 11 by Pietro Badoglio)
• October 10 - A tornado destroyed the 160 metre tall wooden radio tower in Langenberg, Germany. As a result of this catastrophe wooden radio towers are phased out.

November

• 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 aircraft later reached its destination, Manila, and delivered over 110,000 pieces of mail).
• November 24 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
• November 30 - The 1935 British-made film Scrooge, the first all-talking film version of Charles Dickens classic, opens in the U.S. after its British release. Seymour Hicks plays Scrooge, a role he has played onstage hundreds of times. The film is criticized by some for not showing all of the ghosts physically, and quickly fades into obscurity. Widespread interest in it does not surface until the film is shown on television in the 1980's, in very shabby-looking prints. It is eventually restored on DVD, but the criticisms of it remain.

December

• December 18 - Samuel Hoare resigns as 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 Manifesto: On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism, calling for a National United Front against Japanese Invasion.

unknown dates

• First Penguin paperback books
• Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women
• Gerhard Domagk publishes the discovery of Prontosil, the first modern Antibiotic
• A year in which Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird was set.

Births

January

• January 4 - Floyd Patterson, American boxer (d. 2006)
• January 7 - Valeri Kubasov, cosmonaut
• January 7 - Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist
• January 8 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (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, German 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 laureate

February-March

• February 4 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (d. 1989)
• February 11 - Gerry Goffin, American songwriter
• February 11 - Gene Vincent, American guitarist and vocalist
• February 14 - Rob McConnell, Canadian jazz musician
• February 16 - Sonny Bono, American singer, actor, and politician (d. 1998)
• February 17 - Christina Pickles, British actress
• February 25 - Sally Jessy Raphaël, American talk show host
• February 27 - Mirella Freni, Italian soprano
• 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 18 - Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician
• 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-June

• April 18 - Paul A. Rothchild, American record producer (d. 1995)
• April 21 - Charles Grodin, American actor and journalist
• April 21 - Thomas Kean, former Governor of New Jersey and 9/11 Commission Chairman
• April 23 - Bunky Green, American jazz musician
• May 2 - Lance LeGault, American actor
• May 7 - Isobel Warren, Canadian author
• 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 20 - Marinella, Greek singer
• May 24 - Joan Micklin Silver, American director
• 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 2 - Roger Brierley, English actor (d. 2005)
• June 18 - John Spencer, British snooker player (d. 2006)
• June 19 - Derren Nesbitt, British actor
• June 11 - Gene Wilder, American actor
• June 21 - Françoise Sagan, French writer (d. 2004)

July-August

• 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 11 - Oliver Napier, Northern Irish politician
• July 13 - Jack Kemp, American football player
• July 15 - William G. Stewart, British television producer and presenter
• July 17 - Peter Schickele, American composer and comedian
• July 17 - Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
• July 18 - Jayendra Saraswathi, Hindu religious leader
• July 27 - Billy McCullough, Northern Irish footballer
• July 28 - Simon Dee, British television presenter
• July 29 - Peter Schreier, German tenor
• August 3 - Georgi Shonin, cosmonaut (d. 1997)
• August 13 - Rod Hull, British entertainer (d. 1999)
• 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 22 - E. Annie Proulx, American author
• August 30 - John Phillips, American singer (d. 2001)
• August 31 - Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (d. 1998)
• August 31 - Frank Robinson, baseball player

September

• 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 25 - Adrien Douady, French mathematician (d. 2006)
• September 29 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
• September 30 - ZZ Hill, American musician
• September 30 - Johnny Mathis, American singer

October-November

• 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 21 - Derek Bell, Irish musician (d. 2002)
• October 22 - Ann Rule, American true-crime writer
• October 29 - Takahata Isao, Japanese animated film director
• October 30 - Robert Caro, American biographer
• October 30 - Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer
• October 31 - Ronald Graham, American mathematician
• 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 21 - Fairuz, Lebanese singer
• November 23 - Vladislav Volkov, cosmonaut

December

• December 1 - Woody Allen, American film director
• December 8 - Dharmendra, Indian actor
• December 11 - Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician
• December 14 — Anthony Wilden, British author and social theorist, noted translator of Jaques Lacan
• December 17 - Cal Ripken, Sr., baseball player and manager (d. 1999)
• 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 laureate (b. 1876)
• March 22 - Aleksander Moisiu, Albanian actor (b. 1879)
• April 14 - Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)
• April 18 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (b. 1884)
• May 12 - Józef Piłsudski, 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, Czech composer and violinist (b. 1874)
• July 3 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
• July 12 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (b. 1859)
• July 17 - George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (b. 1867)
• August 12 - Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (b. 1851)
• August 15 - Wiley Post, American pilot (plane crash) (b. 1898)
• August 15 - Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (plane crash) (b. 1879)
• August 29 - Queen Astrid of Belgium (b. 1905)
• August 30 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
• September 10 - Huey Long, American politician (b. 1893)
• September 28 - W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (b. 1860)
• October 20 - Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
• November 2 - Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
• November 28 - Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1877)
• December 2 - James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (b. 1865)
• December 3 - Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, daughter of King Edward VII (b. 1868)
• December 4 - Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (b. 1864)
• December 4 - Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
• December 13 - Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
• December 17 - Juan Vicente Gómez, Venezuelan military dictator (b. 1857)
• December 20 - Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (b. 1882)
• December 21 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist (b. 1890)

Nobel prizes

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

Ship events

• List of ship launches in 1935
• List of ship commissionings in 1935

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