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1935 - Events

1935 - 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 - Elvis Presley is born in Tupelo, Mississippi.
• 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

1935 - February-May

• 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 - Anastasios Papoulas leads a coup against the Greek government, however the attempt fails and he is later captured and executed for treason.
• 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 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 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 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 29 - Construction of Hoover Dam is completed
• May 30 - Earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan - 26,000 dead

1935 - 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 5 - Oliveira Salazar becomes de dacto dictator of fascist Portugal
• 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.

1935 - 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 13 - Howard Hughes sets new aviation speed record in his H-1.
• September 15 - Nuremberg Laws
• September 30 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Hoover Dam
• 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, no more wooden radio towers are built any more.

1935 - 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).
• November 24 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
• 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.

1935 - unknown dates

• First Penguin paperback books
• Mary McCleod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women

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