Important Historical Events of the year 1935, Year 1935 in History
List of 1935 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1935
What happened in the year 1935?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 7, 1935 | Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement. |
| January 11, 1935 | Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California. |
| January 13, 1935 | A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany. |
| January 24, 1935 | Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company starts selling the first canned beer. |
| January 28, 1935 | Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion. |
| February 2, 1935 | Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts. |
| February 12, 1935 | USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks. |
| February 13, 1935 | A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh. |
| February 20, 1935 | Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica. |
| February 26, 1935 | Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. |
| February 26, 1935 | Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.[18] |
| March 16, 1935 | Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht. |
| March 21, 1935 | Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran. |
| March 23, 1935 | Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. |
| April 1, 1935 | India's central banking institution, the Reserve Bank of India, is formed. |
| April 8, 1935 | The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law. |
| April 11, 1935 | Stresa Front: opening of the conference between the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, the Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and the French Minister for Foreign Affairs Pierre Laval to condemn the German violations of the Treaty of Versailles. |
| April 14, 1935 | The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, sweeps across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas. |
| April 23, 1935 | The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted. |
| May 6, 1935 | New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration. |
| May 14, 1935 | The Constitution of the Philippines is ratified by a popular vote. |
| May 24, 1935 | The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field. |
| May 25, 1935 | Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan. |
| May 27, 1935 | New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495). |
| May 29, 1935 | First flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aeroplane. |
| May 31, 1935 | A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000. |
| June 3, 1935 | One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa. |
| June 10, 1935 | Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson. |
| June 10, 1935 | Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932. |
| June 11, 1935 | Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey. |
| June 12, 1935 | A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War. |
| June 18, 1935 | Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total of 60 injuries and 24 arrests. |
| June 25, 1935 | Colombia–Soviet Union relations are established. |
| July 1, 1935 | Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in the On-to-Ottawa Trek. |
| July 5, 1935 | The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
| July 16, 1935 | The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. |
| July 20, 1935 | Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen. |
| July 24, 1935 | The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 °F (43 °C) in Chicago and 104 °F (40 °C) in Milwaukee. |
| July 28, 1935 | First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. |
| August 14, 1935 | Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired. |
| August 15, 1935 | Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska. |
| August 31, 1935 | In an attempt to stay out of the growing tensions concerning Germany and Japan, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts. |
| September 2, 1935 | The Labor Day Hurricane, the most intense hurricane to strike the United States, makes landfall at Long Key, Florida, killing at least 400. |
| September 3, 1935 | Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph. |
| September 8, 1935 | US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building. |
| September 15, 1935 | Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika. |
| September 17, 1935 | The Niagara Gorge Railroad ceases operations after a rockslide. |
| September 24, 1935 | Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights. |
| September 30, 1935 | The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated. |
| October 3, 1935 | Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia. |
| October 10, 1935 | In Greece, a coup d'état ends the Second Hellenic Republic. |
| October 19, 1935 | The League of Nations places economic sanctions on Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia. |
| October 20, 1935 | The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends. |
| November 3, 1935 | George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possibly fixed, plebiscite. |
| November 9, 1935 | The Committee for Industrial Organization, the precursor to the Congress of Industrial Organizations, is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor. |
| November 22, 1935 | The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila. |
| November 24, 1935 | The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress. |
| December 5, 1935 | Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in New York City. |
| December 9, 1935 | Student protests occur in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, and are subsequently dispersed by government authorities. |
| December 9, 1935 | Walter Liggett, an American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder. |
| December 12, 1935 | Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler. |
| December 17, 1935 | First flight of the Douglas DC-3. |
| December 18, 1935 | The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon. |
| December 27, 1935 | Regina Jonas is ordained as the first female rabbi in the history of Judaism. |
| December 30, 1935 | The Italian Air Force bombs a Swedish Red Cross hospital during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. |