What Happened in 1935 — Events, Births & Deaths

Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.

Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.

A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to no more being a "region occupied and governed by the United Kingdom and France".

Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company starts selling the first canned beer.

Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.

Leonarde Keeler administers polygraph tests to two murder suspects, the first time polygraph evidence was admitted in U.S. courts.

USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.

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.

Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.

Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.

Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.

Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm itself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.

Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran.

Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.

India's central banking institution, the Reserve Bank of India, is formed.

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.

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.

The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.

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.

The Constitution of the Philippines is ratified by a popular vote.

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.

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.

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).

First flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aeroplane.

A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.

One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa.

Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.

Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.

A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War.

Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total of 60 injuries and 24 arrests.

Colombia–Soviet Union relations are established.

The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 °F (43 °C) in Chicago and 104 °F (40 °C) in Milwaukee.

First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.

Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.

In an attempt to stay out of the growing tensions concerning Germany and Japan, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts.

The Labor Day Hurricane, the most intense hurricane to strike the United States, makes landfall at Long Key, Florida, killing at least 400.

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.

US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.

Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.

Nazi Germany announces two new laws related to race and the rights of Jews. These became known as the Nuremberg Race Laws.

The Niagara Gorge Railroad ceases operations after a rockslide.

Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights.

The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.

Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.

In Greece, a coup d'état ends the Second Hellenic Republic.

The League of Nations places economic sanctions on Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.

The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends.

George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possibly fixed, plebiscite.

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.

The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.

The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.

Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in New York City.

Student protests occur in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, and are subsequently dispersed by government authorities.

Walter Liggett, an American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.

The Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.

Douglas DC-3: The twin-engine airliner makes its maiden flight from Santa Monica.

The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.

Regina Jonas is ordained as the first female rabbi in the history of Judaism.

The Italian Air Force bombs a Swedish Red Cross hospital during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.