politics
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society
  • U.S. Senate refuses to participate in the World Court by a vote of 52-36.
  • Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean,
    from Honolulu, Hawaii, to Oakland, California.
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  • Bruno Hauptmann is sentenced to die for killing the Lindbergh baby.
  • Soil Conservation Act passed; Soil Conservation Service becomes bureau of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
  • Rural Electrification Administration established to finance production of electricity in areas not served by private companies.
  • U.S. Supreme Court declares National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional; National Recovery Administration (NRA) no longer operational.
  • Works Progress Administration (WPA) formed under authority of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act.
  • Resettlement Administration moves poor families to Greenbelt towns.
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  • President Roosevelt signs the National Labor Relations Act, which establishes the National Labor Relations Board to prevent unfair labor practices.
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  • Social Security Act establishes old-age retirement insurance and a federal payroll tax to finance federal-state unemployment insurance.
  • President Roosevelt signs the Public Utilities Act to restrict public utilities monopolies.
  • President Roosevelt signs the Motor Carrier Act, which gives the Interstate Commerce Commission control over bus and truck traffic.
  • President Roosevelt signs the Revenue Act of 1935, also known as the Wealth Tax Act. The act increases income tax rates for wealthy Americans and corporations.
  • Dr. Carl Austin Weiss Jr. shoots and kills Senator Huey Long, a critic of FDR, in the Louisiana State Capitol.
  • President Roosevelt dedicates the Boulder Dam.
  • Hurricane kills hundreds in the Florida Keys.
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  • John L. Lewis establishes the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO), which advocates the organization of workers in the steel, auto, and rubber industries.
  • Annual auto show held in New York City this month instead of January to help even out employment in auto industry.
  • Congress passes the United States Neutrality Act.
  • Shenandoah National Park is established.
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science
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tech
  • World's longest railroad bridge, over lower Zambesi River in South Africa, is completed.
  • Detective Leonard Keeler demonstrates the Keeler polygraph, or lie detector machine.
  • New York Governor Herbert Lehman signs bills allowing blood types to be used as evidence in court cases.
  • The first round-the-world telephone conversation is routed from New York to San Francisco, Indonesia, Holland, England, and back to New York.
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  • First description of an artificial heart appears in Science magazine.
  • Dr. Edward Kendall presents a paper before the joint meeting of the American and Canadian Medical Associations discussing the isolation of cortisone from the adrenal cortex.
  • France's ship, the S.S. Normandie, breaks transatlantic record, crossing the Atlantic in 107 hours 33 minutes.
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  • United States Postal Service begins transpacific air mail service from San Francisco to Manila.
  • The DC-3 (Douglas 1935) travels non-stop across the country in 15 hours.
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culture
  • Clifford Odets's play, Waiting for Lefty, premieres at the Civic Repertory Theater in New York.
  • Zoë Akins's play, The Old Maid, based on the novel by Edith Wharton, opens at the Empire Theatre in New York City.
  • Robert E. Sherwood's play, The Petrified Forest, starring Humphrey Bogart and Leslie Howard, opens at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York City.
  • Clifford Odets's play, Awake and Sing, opens at the Belasco Theatre in New York City.

      • Books Released in 1935
    • Butterfield 8 by John O'Hara
    • Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe
    • The Last Puritan by George Santayana
    • They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy
    • Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
  • Academy Award winners (for 1934 films):
    • Best Film: It Happened One Night
    • Best Actress: Claudette Colbert, It Happened One Night
    • Best Actor: Clark Gable, It Happened One Night
    • Best Director: Frank Capra, It Happened One Night
    • Best Cinematography: Victor Milner, Cleopatra
    • Best Art Direction: Cedric Gibbons and Frederic Hope, The Merry Widow
    • Best Song: "The Continental," The Gay Divorcee
    • Special Award: Shirley Temple
  • "Your Hit Parade," a weekly radio show featuring hit songs, debuts on NBC.
  • "Fibber McGee and Molly," a radio comedy starring Jim and Marian Jordan, debuts on the Blue Network.
  • "Flash Gordon," a science fiction radio program starring Gale Gordon, debuts.
  • Pulitzer Prize winners:
    • Drama: Zoë Akins, for adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Old Maid
    • Fiction: Josephine Winslow Johnson, for Now in November
    • Poetry: Audrey Wurdemann, for Bright Ambush
    • History: Charles McLean Adres, for The Colonial Period of American History
    • Biography: Douglas Southall Freeman, for R. E. Lee
  • Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies play the first major league night baseball game at Crosley Field, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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  • Babe Ruth retires from professional baseball, with 714 home runs, 5,973 bases, and a .342 batting average.
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      Films Released in 1935
    • Alice Adams
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream
    • A Night at the Opera
    • Becky Sharp
    • Bride of Frankenstein
    • Captain Blood
    • Dangerous
    • Gold Diggers of 1935
  • "Girl Alone," a radio soap opera starring Betty Winkler, debuts on NBC.

      • More Films Released in 1935
    • Les Miserables
    • Magnificent Obsession
    • Mutiny on the Bounty
    • Naughty Marietta
    • Ruggles of Red Gap
    • The Informer
    • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer
    • The 39 Steps
  • Actor Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post die in an airplane crash near Point Barrows, Alaska.
  • Benny Goodman, "the King of Swing," opens at the Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles.
  • "Backstage Wife," a radio show starring Vivian Fridell, debuts on Mutual.
  • Hallie Flanagan assumes leadership for Federal Theatre Project.
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  • Maxwell Anderson's play, Winterset, inspired by the Sacco-Vanzetti case, opens at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York City.
  • "Popeye the Sailor," a radio drama based on the comic strip by Elzie Segar, debuts on NBC.
  • Henrietta Leaver of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, wins the Miss America title.
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  • George and Ira Gershwin's musical, Porgy and Bess, opens at the Alvine Theatre in New York City; runs for 16 weeks, followed by a 3-month road tour.
  • Jubilee, a play starring Melville Cooper, Mary Boland, and Montgomery Clift, opens at the Imperial Theater in New York.
  • "The Helen Hayes Theater," a radio drama, debuts on the Blue Network.
  • "Cavalcade of America," a historical radio program, debuts on CBS.
  • Jumbo, starring Jimmy Durante and featuring a live elephant, opens at the New York Hippodrome.
  • Boy Meets Girl, a play starring Jerome Cowan, Garson Kanin, and Everett Sloane, opens at New York's Cort Theater.
  • Chicago halfback Jay Berwanger named first Heisman Trophy winner.
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  • New York's Frick Gallery opens.
  • Detroit Lions defeat the New York Giants, 26-7, in the NFL Championship.
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      Songs Released in 1935
    • "Cheek to Cheek"
    • "Footloose and Fancy Free"
    • "I'm in the Mood for Love"
    • "It's You I Adore"
    • "Lullaby of Broadway"
world
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  • Italy sends troops to East Africa.
  • Saar region reunites with Germany and becomes part of the Third Reich.
  • Hitler introduces mandatory military service.
  • League of Nations censures Germany's rearmament policy.
  • Earthquake in Quetta, India, kills approximately 50,000 people.
  • Citizens of Great Britain celebrate the silver jubilee of King George V.
  • German-British Naval Treaty signed, increasing strength of German navy.
  • Heinrich Himmler begins the Society for Research into the Spiritual Roots of Germany's Ancestral Heritage in Berlin. Himmler institutes a breeding program to produce Aryans.
  • President Roosevelt asks Italian leader Benito Mussolini to preserve peace in East Africa.
  • British Parliament passes the Government of India Act, which provides Delhi with a federal legislature.
  • Italy rejects League of Nations compromise on Ethiopia crisis.
  • Italian troops invade Ethiopia.
  • League of Nations imposes sanctions on Italy for the invasion.
  • Religious leaders discourage Americans from participating in Berlin Olympics.
  • Greek monarchy is restored under King George II.
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  • Nazi government revokes German citizenship of Jews.
  • Church of England officially condemns Nazi persecution of Jews.
  • United States makes the Philippines a commonwealth.
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