Historical Events in 1935

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• Jan 1 Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto
• Jan 1 Eastern Airlines hires Eddie Rickenbacker as GM

• Jan 1 President Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Ataturk: Father of Turkey"
• Jan 1 21st Rose Bowl: Alabama beats Stanford, 29-13
• Jan 1 1st Sugar Bowl: Tulane beats Temple, 20-14
• Jan 1 1st Orange Bowl: Bucknell beats Miami (FL), 26-0

• Jan 4 Ft Jefferson National Monument, Florida established
• Jan 7 Zoe Akins' "Old Maid" premieres in NYC

• Jan 8 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy

• Jan 13 Plebiscite in Saar indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany
• Jan 14 Iraq-Mediterranean oil pipeline goes into use
• Jan 14 Australian Championships Women's Tennis, Melbourne: In an all-British final Dorothy Round Little defeats Nancy Lyle 1-6, 6-1, 6-3


• Jan 14 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Home favourite Jack Crawford wins his 4th Australian title; beats Fred Perry of England 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4
• Jan 15 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition
• Jan 15 Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty" premieres in NYC
• Jan 19 KLM begins flight path between Curacao & Aruba
• Jan 19 Coopers Inc. sells the world's first men's briefs in Chicago, calls it the "Jockey"
• Jan 21 12.0" (30.5 cm) of rain falls, Quinault RS, Washington (state record)
• Jan 21 WFI-AM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ)
• Jan 21 The Wilderness Society is founded by conservationists

• Jan 28 Iceland becomes 1st western country to legalize abortion

• Feb 1 1st "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol
• Feb 1 James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy
• Feb 2 Leonarde Keeler first uses his polygraph machine on criminals later convicted of assault on its findings in Portage, Wisconsin
• Feb 6 "Monopoly" board game goes on sale for 1st time
• Feb 6 1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey
• Feb 9 US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
• Feb 9 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
• Feb 11 -11°F (-24°C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low)
• Feb 11 1st US airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, NY


• Feb 12 Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean

• Feb 13 1st US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland
• Feb 13 Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap & murder of Lindbergh infant. He proclaimed his innocence to the end.
• Feb 19 Clifford Odets' "Awake & Sing" premieres in NYC
• Feb 20 Dane Caroline Mikkelson is 1st woman to land on Antarctica
• Feb 22 Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House

• Feb 26 RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt

• Feb 28 Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit
• Feb 28 Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon polymer
• Feb 28 Ladby Ship is discovered within a Viking grave on the island of Funen in Denmark by amateur archaeologist Poul Helweg Mikkelsen
• Mar 3 Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms
• Mar 5 1st premature baby health law in US (Chicago)
• Mar 6 Frank Bartell (Czech), cycles record 80.584 mph in LA
• Mar 7 Saar incorporated into Germany
• Mar 7 Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of 276.71 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car; last record set at Daytona Beach, Florida

• Mar 11 Bank of Canada first opens on Wellington Street, Ottawa
• Mar 11 Hermann Goering officially creates the Luftwaffe (German Air Force)
• Mar 12 Britain establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
• Mar 13 Driving tests introduced in Great Britain
• Mar 14 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars in San Francisco
• Mar 15 Brilliant batsman George Headley steers West Indies to an innings victory over England in 4th cricket Test at Kingston, Jamaica with a patient, unbeaten 270
• Mar 16 Adolf Hitler orders German re-armament in violation of The Treaty of Versailles
• Mar 16 Scotland beats England, 10-7 at Murrayfield, Edinburgh to allow Ireland to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship with a 2-1 record
• Mar 17 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR

• Mar 21 Persia is officially renamed Iran
• Mar 22 Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases in New York
• Mar 24 Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network
• Mar 25 1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns
• Mar 26 RJ Mitchell & Major Sorley discuss armament of Supermarine Spitfire

• Mar 29 94th Grand National: Frank Furlong wins aboard Reynoldstown at 22/1; stallion repeats with back-to-back victory the following year
• Mar 30 Newfoundland changes time to 3½ hrs W of Greenwich, repeats 44 sec
• Apr 1 1st radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady, NY
• Apr 2 Scottish physicist Robert Watson-Watt receives a British patents for RADAR
• Apr 3 Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44)
• Apr 5 Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election
• Apr 6 H Levitt sinks 499 basketball free throws, misses & sinks 371 more
• Apr 8 2nd Augusta National Invitation Tournament (Masters) Golf: Gene Sarazen wins Monday playoff with Craig Wood by 5 strokes

• Apr 8 Works Progress Administration approved by Congress

• Apr 10 Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London
• Apr 12 Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers
• Apr 12 Royal Proclamation sets design of Canada's new Jubilee Silver Dollar
• Apr 12 First flight of the Bristol Blenheim
• Apr 14 Black Sunday: Severe dust storm ravages the US Midwest, led to the region being named "the Dust Bowl"
• Apr 15 39th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley in 2:32:07.4


• Apr 16 1st radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly"
• Apr 16 40-year-old future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth debuts in the NL with a HR and single in Boston Braves 4-2 win over the NY Yankees
• Apr 17 Provincial-National elections (Musserts NSB achieves 7.9%, 44 chairs)
• Apr 18 Gen Sarazen's double eagle on 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters
• Apr 18 Netherlands election (Musserts NSB wins 8% of vote)
• Apr 20 "Your Hit Parade" begins broadcasting (becomes #1 quickly)
• Apr 21 King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties
• Apr 23 Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted
• Apr 26 Frank Boucher is given NHL's Lady Byng Trophy for sportsmanship permanently for winning it 7 of 11 years
• Apr 27 Brussels World Exposition opens
• Apr 27 Yanks pull a 1st inning triple-play & beat Philadelphia A's 9-8
• Apr 28 Moscow underground railway opens (81 km long)
• Apr 30 World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul
• May 1 Canada's 1st silver dollar is circulated
• May 4 61st Kentucky Derby: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:05

• May 6 KTM-AM in Los Angeles California changes call letters to KEHE (now KABC)
• May 6 Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush)
• May 8 Cincinnati Red Ernie Lombardi doubles in 6th, 7th, 8th & 9th beat Phils 15-4
• May 11 60th Preakness: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 1:58.4
• May 14 LA's Griffith Planetarium opens, 3rd in US
• May 14 Plebiscite in the Philippines ratifies independence agreement
• May 14 Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proved to be their last victory for 99 matches, a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win was not until May 29, 1939.
• May 15 Pirates beat Phillies 20-5
• May 15 The Moscow Metro is opened to public
• May 18 Harold Gimblett scores 123 in 80 mins on debut for Somerset
• May 19 NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936

• May 23 1st scheduled night game postponed due to rain (Cincinnati)


• May 24 1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Philadelphia 1)
• May 25 Track and field athlete Jesse Owens equals or breaks 4 world records in 45 minutes at a Big Ten meet at Ferry Field in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Remembered as "the greatest 45 minutes ever in sport".
• May 25 Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs in Pittsburgh, Boston Braves still lose the game 11–7 to the Pirates

• May 29 French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage, arrived in NYC on June 3rd
• May 29 Hague local museum opens
• May 30 Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies
• May 30 Indianapolis 500: Kelly Petillo wins in 4:42:22.771 (170.977 km/h)
• May 31 7.7 magnitude earthquake hits Quetta in Balochistan, British Raj (Pakistan) killing an estimated 50,000 people
• Jun 1 Driving test & license plates introduced in England
• Jun 2 Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player
• Jun 2 French Championships Men's Tennis: Englishman Fred Perry wins his only French title, beating Gottfried von Cramm of Germany 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-3
• Jun 2 40th Women's French Championships: Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling beats Simonne Mathieu (6-2, 6-1)
• Jun 3 French liner SS Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of four days, three hours and 14 minutes on her maiden voyage
• Jun 3 One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario
• Jun 8 US Open Men's Golf, Oakmont CC: 25 year old club pro Sam Parks Jr, with no prior tournament wins, beats Scotsman Jimmy Thomson by 2 strokes
• Jun 8 67th Belmont: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:30.6
• Jun 9 Ho-Umezu Agreement: the Republic of China, under KMT administration, recognizes Japanese occupations in Northeast China.
• Jun 10 In Akron, Ohio, Dr. Robert H. Smith (Dr. Bob) from Akron & Bill Wilson from New York City form Alcoholics Anonymous (date of Smith's last drink)
• Jun 11 Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey
• Jun 12 Weapons pact ends 3 year war of Gran Chaco (Bolivia vs Paraguay)
• Jun 12 Senator Huey Long of Louisiana speaks continually for 15½ hours in then Senate's longest speech (150,000 words)
• Jun 13 Hammond scores his 100th hundred, 116 for Gloucs v Somerset
• Jun 13 10-to-1 underdog James J Braddock upsets defending champion Max Baer in a 15 round unanimous points decision at Madison Square Garden, NYC for the world heavyweight boxing title
• Jun 14 Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends

• Jun 26 Surrey's former England Test cricket batsman Andy Sandham scores his 100th first class century (103) v Hampshire at Basingstoke
• Jun 26 Lloyd Waner sets record of 18 putouts in center in doubleheader
• Jun 26 SDAP & CPH achieve majority in city council in Amsterdam


• Jun 26 Work service for recent graduates becomes obligatory in Germany
• Jun 27 Danno O'Mahoney beats Jim Londos in Boston, to become wrestling champ
• Jun 28 Earl Averill's consecutive-game streak ends at 673
• Jun 28 FDR orders a federal gold vault to be built at Fort Knox, Kentucky
• Jun 28 British Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Alf Perry wins his only major title, by 4 shots from fellow Englishman Alf Padgham
• Jun 29 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Sunset Ridge CC: Opal Hill scores an easy, 9 & 7 win over Mrs. S.L. Reinhart to claim her first of 2 consecutive major titles
• Jun 30 Danno O'Mahoney beats Ed George in Boston, to become wrestling champ
• Jun 30 The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
• Jul 1 Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANP, General Dutch Press Agency) forms in Amsterdam
• Jul 2 Great Britain amateur boxing team beats United States in the first International Golden Gloves tournament in NYC, New York
• Jul 5 1st "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcast
• Jul 5 FDR signs US National Labor Relations Act
• Jul 5 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Fred Perry successfully defends his title against German Gottfried von Cramm 6-2, 6-4, 6-4
• Jul 5 Tony (Brooklyn Dodgers) and Al (NY Giants) Cuccinello become the first brothers to both hit a MLB homer in the same game, Dodgers win 14-4

• Jul 6 Rotterdam architect A van de Steurs Museum Boymans opens
• Jul 8 3rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-1 at Municipal Stadium, Cleve
• Jul 12 Belgium recognizes Soviet Union

• Jul 13 US-Russian commerce treaty takes effect
• Jul 16 First automatic parking meter in the United States is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• Jul 17 "Variety" publishes famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix"
• Jul 18 Amsterdam city council accept city growth plan through the year 2000
• Jul 20 1st broadcast of "Gang Busters" on NBC-radio
• Jul 20 Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen
• Jul 22 Lester Walton appointed US minister to Liberia
• Jul 24 1st greetings telegram sent in Britain
• Jul 24 The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR
• Jul 27 Floods at Yangtzee Jiang and Hoangh, kill 200,000
• Jul 28 29th Tour de France won by Romain Maes of Belgium


• Jul 29 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: 3rd straight GB title as Pat Hughes & Raymond Tuckey beat Americans Wilmer Allison & John Van Ryn 6-2, 1-6, 6-8, 6-3, 6-3 for unassailable 3-0 lead; ends 5-0
• Jul 30 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution
• Jul 31 3rd Dutch government of Colijn sworn in
• Aug 7 60% of voters agrees to Nazism in Danzig (Gdańsk)
• Aug 10 3rd Venice Film Festival opens
• Aug 11 Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews
• Aug 13 Roller derby is born when the Transcontinental Roller Derby begins at the Chicago Coliseum
• Aug 14 Social Security Act becomes law
• Aug 20 Military coup by General Pons & president Ibarra in Ecuador
• Aug 26 CCC camp opens in Brecksville Reservation of Cleveland Metroparks
• Aug 29 2nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago Bears 5, All-Stars 0 (77,450)
• Aug 31 1st national skeet championship (Indianapolis)
• Aug 31 Chicago White Sox Vern Kennedy no-hits Cleveland Indians, 5-0
• Aug 31 FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents
• Aug 31 Russian Aleksei Stachanov digs 105 tons of cabbages in 6 hours
• Sep 2 Labor Day hurricane makes landfall in Florida, killing 423 people, the strongest and most intense hurricane ever to make landfall in the United States
• Sep 3 First automobile to exceed 300mph, Malcolm Campbell powers Bluebird to 301.129mph at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah
• Sep 3 Andrew Varipapa sets bowling record of 2,652 points in 10 games

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