1935

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s

Years: 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 - 1935 - 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940

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Events

• January 7 - World War II: Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval[?] sign the Italo-French agreements[?].
• January 8 - A.C. Hardy[?] patents the spectrophotometer[?].
• January 11 - Amelia Earhart is the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
• January 13 - A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany
• January 28 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion
• 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 26 - The Luftwaffe is formed
• February 28 - Nylon is discovered by Wallace Carothers
• March 16 - Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty.
• March 21 - Persia is renamed Iran
• March 23 - Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines
• May 6 - New Deal: Executive Order 7034[?] creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
• May 14 - Filipinos ratify an independence agreement.
• May 27 - New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional.
• May 29 - Construction of Hoover Dam is completed.
• September 30 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Hoover Dam
• October 3 - Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono[?] (replaced November 11 by Pietro Badaglio[?])
• October 23 - William Lyon Mackenzie King returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada for the third time.

• Mao Zedong assumes the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.
• Cane toads introduced to Australia.

Art, Culture & Fashion

• 1935 in film
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Les Miserables
  • 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 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
• 1935 in television
  • First TV broadcasts in Germany and England.
  • France begins broadcasting regular transmissions from the top of the Eiffel Tower

Births

• January 4 - Floyd Patterson, boxing champion
• January 7 - Valeri Kubasov, cosmonaut
• January 8 - Elvis Presley, American singer
• January 12 - Kreskin[?], mentalist
• January 16 - Udo Lattek[?], football coach
• January 16 - A.J. Foyt, automobile racer
• January 30 - Richard Brautigan, writer and poet
• February 1 - Dieter Kühn[?], narrator, dramatist and essayist
• February 5 - Sandra Paretti[?], author (+ 1994)
• February 11 - Sergio Mendes[?] -- an alternative source gives 1941.
• February 11 - Gerry Goffin[?].
• February 11 - Bent Lorentzen[?], 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 Raphael[?], talk show host
• March 1 - Robert Conrad[?], actor
• March 1 - Judith Rossner[?], writer
• March 15 - Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist
• March 15 - Judd Hirsch[?], actor
• March 22 - M. Emmet Walsh[?], actor
• March 24 - Peter Bichsel[?], writer
• March 25 - Gloria Steinem[?], feminist, author
• March 31 - Richard Chamberlain[?], actor
• March 31 - Herb Alpert[?], musician
• April 26 - Carol Burnett, singer, actress, comedienne
• May 17 - Dennis Potter, writer
• July 8 - Vitali Sevastyanov, cosmonaut
• July 17 - Peter Schickele, composer
• August 3 - Georgi Shonin, cosmonaut
• September 11 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut
• September 16 - Carl Andre, artist
• September 17 - Ken Kesey, author
• October 12 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian opera singer
• October 14 - La Monte Young, composer
• October 29 - Takahata Isao, Japanese director of animated movies
• November 10 - Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian theoretical astrophysicist, cosmologist
• November 23 - Vladislav Volkov, cosmonaut
• December 1 - Woody Allen, American film director

Deaths

• March 12 - Michel Pupin[?], telephone pioneer
• May 12 - Marshall Jozef Pilsudski, Polish political leader
• May 17 - Paul Dukas, French composer
• May 18 - T. E. Lawrence, soldier ("Lawrence of Arabia")
• May 21 - Jane Addams, social worker
• July 3 - André Citroën[?], automobile pioneer
• July 12 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer
• August 29 - Queen Astrid of Belgium
• August 30 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist
• December 21 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist
• December 24 - Alban Berg, aged 50, Austrian composer

Nobel Prizes

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