World War 1 and 2

Years: 1932 1933 1934 - 1935 - 1936 1937 1938
Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

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

Contents

1 Events

Events

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 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 Antartica

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
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 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.

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 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.

January 4 - Floyd Patterson, boxing champion
January 7 - Valeri Kubasov, cosmonaut
January 8 - Elvis Presley, American rock singer
January 12 - Kreskin, mentalist
January 14 - Lucille Wheeler, world champion alpine skier
January 16 - Udo Lattek , football coach
January 16 - A.J. Foyt, automobile race driver
January 30 - Richard Brautigan, writer and poet
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 - Sergio Mendes -- an alternative source gives 1941.
February 11 - Gerry Goffin.
February 11 - Damian Mercer (fire fighter), composer.
February 11 - Gene Vincent, American rock guitarist/vocalist -- an alternative source gives 1943.
February 16 - Sonny Bono, singer, actor, United States Representative
February 25 - Sally Jessy Raphaël, talk show host
February 27 - Mirella Freni, Italian soprano

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
April 14 - Emmy Noether, mathematician.
May 12 - Marshall Jozef Pilsudski, Polish politician
May 17 - Paul Dukas, French composer
May 18 - T. E. Lawrence, soldier ("Lawrence of Arabia")
May 19 - Charles Martin Loeffler, American composer
May 21 - Jane Addams, social worker
May 29 - Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (b. 1874)
July 3 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer
July 12 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer
August 29 - Queen Astrid of Belgium
August 30 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist
September 28 - W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (b. 1860)
November 28 - Erich von Hornbostel, musicologist
December 2 - James Henry Breasted, Egyptologist (b. 1865)
December 4 - Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer
December 21 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist
December 24 - Alban Berg, Austrian composer (b. 1885)