1935 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1935?
- January 11, 1935 – Amelia Earhart is the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
- February 2, 1935 – Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine.
- February 4, 1935 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Pig in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- March 21, 1935 – Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans.'
- May 12, 1935 – Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith (founders of Alcoholics Anonymous) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling.
- June 3, 1935 – One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
- July 24, 1935 – The world’s first children’s railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.
- July 28, 1935 – First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
- September 8, 1935 – US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed “Kingfish”, is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.
- September 15, 1935 – The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
- October 10, 1935 – A coup d'état by the royalist leadership of the Greek Armed Forces takes place in Athens. It overthrows the government of Panagis Tsaldaris and establishes a regency under Georgios Kondylis, effectively ending the Second Hellenic Republic.
- October 23, 1935 – Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard “Lulu” Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre.
- November 3, 1935 – George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular plebiscite.
- November 6, 1935 – Edwin Armstrong presents his paper “A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation” to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
- November 9, 1935 – The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
- December 17, 1935 – First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
- December 18, 1935 – The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
- December 28, 1935 – Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.
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