1935

Events of 1935

January - Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia creates a military school at Holeta.<ref name=Ethiopia-Military-Tradition-in-National-Life>Ethiopia Military Tradition in National Life Library of Congress</ref>
January 1 - Italian colonies of Tripoli and Cyrenaica are joined together as Libya.
January 4 - Dry Tortugas National Park is established.
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 8 - Elvis Presley is born.
January 11 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.

January 13 - The people of the section which was taken from Germany in 1919 vote to be re united with Germany
January 16 - FBI kills Barker gang, including Ma Barker, in a shootout.
January 19 - Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.
January 28 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion on medical grounds.

February 15 - The discovery and clinical development of Prontosil, the first broadly effective antibacterial drug, is published in a series of articles in Germany's pre-eminent medical journal, Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, by Gerhard Domagk.

March - Anastasios Papoulas leads a coup against the Greek government; however, the attempt fails and he is later captured and executed for treason.
March 2 - King Prajadhipok (Rama VII) of Siam abdicates the throne. He is succeeded by his 9-year-old-nephew Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII).
March 2 - Porky Pig makes his debut in Looney Tunes's I Haven't Got a Hat.
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 S. H. Kress & Co. 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 in Eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma.
April 16 - Fibber McGee and Molly debuts on NBC Radio.
April 17 - Sun Myung Moon claims to have a revelation from Jesus telling him to complete his mission from almost 2000 years ago.
April 29 - The first edition of the Vuelta a España was raced and went on to become one the three Grand Tours of road bicycle racing.

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 25 - Babe Ruth hits his 714 home run.
May 27 - In the case of Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, aka the "Sick Chicken Case", U.S. Supreme Court declares the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional.
May 31 - 7.1 magnitude Earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan: 40,000 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 Akron, OH 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 15½ hours and contained 150,000 words. [1]
June 13 - James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer at Madison Square Garden Bowl to win boxing heavyweight championship of the world.
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 facto dictator of fascist Portugal.
- The National Labor Relations Act becomes law in the United States.
July 6 - Tenzin Gyatso the 14th Dali Lama is born.
July 16 - World's first parking meters, in Oklahoma City.
July 24
- The world's first children's railway is opened in Tbilisi, USSR.
- 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 is established in the United States.
June or July - The Giant neotropical toad is introduced to northern Queensland, Australia to counter sugar cane beetles.
July 30 - First Penguin paperback books are published.

September 2 - Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: A large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
September 8 - Carl Weiss fatally shoots US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", in the Louisiana capitol building in Baton Rouge.
September 13 - Howard Hughes, flying the Hughes H-1 Racer, set the airspeed record of 352 mph (566 km/h).
September 15 - Nuremberg Laws.
September 24 - Earl Bascom and his brother Weldon Bascom produced the first night rodeo held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
September 30 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Hoover Dam

October 22 page from a Soviet revolutionary calendar with six-day weeks.

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 wooden radio towers are phased out.

November 5 - Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly.
November 8 - A dozen labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (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 aircraft later reached its destination, Manila, and delivered over 110,000 pieces of mail).
November 30 - The 1935 British-made film Scrooge, the first all-talking film version of Charles Dickens classic, opens in the U.S. after its British release. Seymour Hicks plays Scrooge, a role he has played onstage hundreds of times. The film is criticized by some for not showing all of the ghosts physically, and quickly fades into obscurity. Widespread interest in it does not surface until the film is shown on television in the 1980s, in very shabby-looking prints. It is eventually restored on DVD, but the criticisms of it remain.