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  • Zunyi, Guizhou, China
    Jan, 1935
    Mao Zedong

    Mao was elected to a position of leadership at Zunyi Conference

    Zunyi, Guizhou, China
    Jan, 1935

    The 100,000 who escaped headed to southern Hunan, first crossing the Xiang River after heavy fighting, and then the Wu River, in Guizhou where they took Zunyi in January 1935. Temporarily resting in the city, they held a conference; here, Mao was elected to a position of leadership, becoming Chairman of the Politburo, and de facto leader of both Party and Red Army.




  • Paris, France
    1935
    Marie Curie

    Her Last Book

    Paris, France
    1935

    In her last year, she worked on a book, Radioactivity, which was published posthumously in 1935.




  • Germany
    1935
    Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)

    Joining German Party

    Germany
    1935

    Schindler joined the separatist Sudeten German Party in 1935. Although he was a citizen of Czechoslovakia, Schindler became a spy for the Abwehr, the military intelligence service of Nazi Germany.




  • Czech Republic
    1935
    Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)

    Father Abandoning

    Czech Republic
    1935

    Schindler's father, an alcoholic, abandoned his wife in 1935. She died a few months later after a lengthy illness.




  • England
    1935
    Alan Turing

    He Was Elected a Fellow of King's on The Strength of a Dissertation

    England
    1935

    In 1935, at the age of 22, he was elected a fellow of King's on the strength of a dissertation in which he proved the central limit theorem. Unknown to the committee, the theorem had already been proven, in 1922, by Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg.




  • Obersalzberg, Berchtesgaden, Germany
    1935
    Martin Bormann

    Bormann was appointed as Overseer of Renovations at The Berghof

    Obersalzberg, Berchtesgaden, Germany
    1935

    In 1935, Bormann was appointed as overseer of renovations at the Berghof, Hitler's property at Obersalzberg.




  • U.S.
    1935
    DC Comics

    The earliest DC Comics character to still be in the DC Universe

    U.S.
    1935

    In 1935, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the future creators of Superman, created Doctor Occult, who is the earliest DC Comics character to still be in the DC Universe.


  • Missouri, U.S.
    Thursday Jan 3, 1935
    Harry S. Truman

    United States Senator from Missouri

    Missouri, U.S.
    Thursday Jan 3, 1935

    After serving as a county judge, Truman wanted to run for Governor or Congress, but Pendergast rejected these ideas. Truman then thought he might serve out his career in some well-paying county sinecure; circumstances changed when Pendergast reluctantly backed him as the fifth choice in the 1934 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate.


  • Philippines
    1935
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Eisenhower accompanied MacArthur to the Philippines

    Philippines
    1935

    In 1935 Eisenhower accompanied MacArthur to the Philippines, where he served as assistant military adviser to the Philippine government in developing their army. Eisenhower had strong philosophical disagreements with MacArthur regarding the role of the Philippine Army and the leadership qualities that an American army officer should exhibit and develop in his subordinates. The resulting antipathy between Eisenhower and MacArthur lasted the rest of their lives.


  • Saarland, Germany
    Sunday Jan 13, 1935
    Adolf Hitler

    Saarland

    Saarland, Germany
    Sunday Jan 13, 1935

    In January 1935, over 90 per cent of the people of the Saarland, then under League of Nations administration, voted to unite with Germany.


  • Germany
    Sunday Jan 13, 1935
    League of Nations

    1935 Saar status referendum

    Germany
    Sunday Jan 13, 1935

    A referendum on territorial status was held in the Territory of the Saar Basin on 13 January 1935. Over 90% of voters opted for reunification with Germany, with 9% voting for the status quo as a League of Nations mandate territory and less than 0.5% opting for unification with France.


  • U.S.
    Feb, 1935
    DC Comics

    The Big Comic Magazine

    U.S.
    Feb, 1935

    The company debuted with the tabloid-sized New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine #1 with a cover date of February 1935.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Feb, 1935
    The palace of Westminster England

    Opening Speech

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Feb, 1935

    In his speech opening Parliament in February 1835, following the conclusion of that year's General Election, the King assured the members that the fire was accidental, and permitted Parliament to make "plans for [its] permanent accommodation". Each house created a committee and a public debate over the proposed styles ensued.


  • Gemany
    Mar, 1935
    Adolf Hitler

    Expansion of the army

    Gemany
    Mar, 1935

    That March, Hitler announced an expansion of the Wehrmacht to 600,000 members—six times the number permitted by the Versailles Treaty—including development of an air force (Luftwaffe) and an increase in the size of the navy (Kriegsmarine). Britain, France, Italy, and the League of Nations condemned these violations of the Treaty, but did nothing to stop it.


  • Rhineland, Germany
    Thursday Mar 7, 1935
    Adolf Hitler

    The Rhineland

    Rhineland, Germany
    Thursday Mar 7, 1935

    Germany reoccupied the demilitarized zone in the Rhineland in March 1936, in violation of the Versailles Treaty.


  • Shibuya Station, Tokyo, Japan
    Friday Mar 8, 1935
    Hachikō

    Hachikō's Death

    Shibuya Station, Tokyo, Japan
    Friday Mar 8, 1935

    Hachikō died on March 8, 1935, at the age of 11. He was found on a street in Shibuya.


  • Spain
    1935
    Spanish Civil War

    Violence against farm-workers and socialists

    Spain
    1935

    Reversals of land reform resulted in the central and southern countryside in 1935 witnessing expulsions, firings and arbitrary changes to working conditions, with landowners' behaviour at times reaching "genuine cruelty", violence against farm-workers and socialists, which caused several deaths. One historian argued that the behaviour of the right in the southern countryside was one of the main causes of hatred during the Civil War and possibly even the Civil War itself.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Mar, 1935
    Marcus Garvey

    Moving to London

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Mar, 1935

    Dissatisfied with life in Jamaica, Garvey decided to move to London, sailing aboard the SS Tilapa in March 1935. Once in London, he told his friend Amy Bailey that he had "left Jamaica a broken man, broken in spirit, broken in health and broken in pocket... and I will never, never, never go back."


  • Vietnam
    Sunday Mar 31, 1935
    Ho Chi Minh

    Member of the Politburo

    Vietnam
    Sunday Mar 31, 1935

    On 31 March 1935, Hồ Chí Minh became Member of the Politburo


  • Stresa, Italy
    Sunday Apr 14, 1935
    World War II

    Stresa Front

    Stresa, Italy
    Sunday Apr 14, 1935

    The United Kingdom, France and Italy formed the Stresa Front in April 1935 to declare the independence of Austria "would continue to inspire there common policy''. The signatories also agreed to resist any future attempt by Germany to change the Treaty of Versailles.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    1935
    Anna May Wong

    Wong also appeared in the King George Silver Jubilee program

    London, England, United Kingdom
    1935

    Wong returned to Britain, where she stayed for nearly three years. In addition to appearing in four films, she toured Scotland and Ireland as part of a vaudeville show. She also appeared in the King George Silver Jubilee program in 1935.


  • Luding, Garze, Sichuan, China
    May, 1935
    Mao Zedong

    Crossing the Tatu River

    Luding, Garze, Sichuan, China
    May, 1935

    From Zunyi, Mao led his troops to Loushan Pass, where they faced armed opposition but successfully crossed the river. Chiang flew into the area to lead his armies against Mao, but the Communists outmanoeuvred him and crossed the Jinsha River. Faced with the more difficult task of crossing the Tatu River, they managed it by fighting a battle over the Luding Bridge in May, taking Luding.


  • Paris, France
    Thursday May 2, 1935
    World War II

    Franco-Soviet pact

    Paris, France
    Thursday May 2, 1935

    The Soviet Union drafted a treaty of mutual assistance with France. Before taking effect, though, the Franco-Soviet pact was required to go through the bureaucracy of the League of Nations, which rendered it essentially toothless. The Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance was a bilateral treaty between France and the Soviet Union with the aim of enveloping Nazi Germany in 1935 in order to reduce the threat from central Europe. The pact was concluded in Paris on May 2, 1935 and ratified by the French government in February 1936.


  • Balochistan, British India (now part of Pakistan)
    Friday May 31, 1935
    02:33:00 AM
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    1935 Quetta Earthquake

    Balochistan, British India (now part of Pakistan)
    Friday May 31, 1935
    02:33:00 AM

    The 1935 Quetta earthquake occurred on 31 May between 2:33 am and 3:40 am at Quetta, Balochistan, British India (now part of Pakistan). The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.7 Mw  and anywhere between 30,000 and 60,000 people died from the impact.


  • (Present-Day Pakistan)
    Sunday Jun 2, 1935
    1935 Quetta earthquake

    Largest aftershock

    (Present-Day Pakistan)
    Sunday Jun 2, 1935

    The largest aftershock was later measured at 5.8 Mw  occurring on 2 June 1935. The aftershock, however, did not cause any damage in Quetta, but the towns of Mastung, Maguchar, and Kalat were seriously affected.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Friday Jun 7, 1935
    Winston Churchill

    MacDonald resigned and was replaced as Prime Minister by Baldwin

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Friday Jun 7, 1935

    In June 1935, MacDonald resigned and was replaced as Prime Minister by Baldwin.


  • China
    Monday Jun 10, 1935
    Second Sino-Japanese War

    The He–Umezu Agreement

    China
    Monday Jun 10, 1935

    In 1935, under Japanese pressure, China signed the He–Umezu Agreement, which forbade the KMT from conducting party operations in Hebei.


  • U.S.
    Jun, 1935
    Anna May Wong

    Wong returned to the U.S.

    U.S.
    Jun, 1935

    Wong returned to the U.S. in June 1935 with the goal of obtaining the role of O-lan, the lead female character in MGM's film version of The Good Earth. Since its publication in 1931, Wong had made known her desire to play O-lan in a film version of the book; and as early as 1933, Los Angeles newspapers were touting Wong as the best choice for the part.


  • Germany
    Tuesday Jun 18, 1935
    Adolf Hitler

    The happiest day of his life

    Germany
    Tuesday Jun 18, 1935

    The Anglo-German Naval Agreement (AGNA) of 18 June allowed German tonnage to increase to 35 per cent of that of the British navy. Hitler called the signing of the AGNA "the happiest day of his life", believing that the agreement marked the beginning of the Anglo-German alliance he had predicted in Mein Kampf.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Tuesday Jun 18, 1935
    World War II

    Anglo-German Naval Agreement

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Tuesday Jun 18, 1935

    The United Kingdom made an Anglo-German Naval Agreement regulating the size of Kreigsmarine in relation to the United Kingdom's Royal Navy.


  • U.S.
    1935
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Black Reconstruction in America

    U.S.
    1935

    Back in the world of academia, Du Bois was able to resume his study of Reconstruction, the topic of the 1910 paper that he presented to the American Historical Association. In 1935, he published his magnum opus, Black Reconstruction in America.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    1935
    Marcus Garvey

    Black Man

    London, England, United Kingdom
    1935

    In London, Garvey sought to rebuild UNIA, although found there was much competition in the city from other black activist groups. He established a new UNIA headquarters in Beaumont Gardens, West Kensington and launched a new monthly journal, Black Man.


  • Moscow, Russia
    Jul, 1935
    Josip Broz Tito

    Tito lectured on trade unions to foreign communists

    Moscow, Russia
    Jul, 1935

    Tito lectured on trade unions to foreign communists, and attended a course on military tactics run by the Red Army, and occasionally attended the Bolshoi Theatre. He attended as one of 510 delegates to the Seventh World Congress of the Comintern in July and August 1935, where he briefly saw Joseph Stalin for the first time.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    1935
    Audrey Hepburn

    Father left

    London, England, United Kingdom
    1935

    Joseph left the family abruptly in 1935 after a "scene" in Brussels when Adriaantje (as she was known in the family) was six; later she often spoke of the effect on a child of being "dumped" as "children need two parents". Joseph moved to London, where he became more deeply involved in the Fascist activity and never visited his daughter abroad. Hepburn later professed that her father's departure was "the most traumatic event of my life".


  • U.S.
    Saturday Aug 31, 1935
    World War II

    Neutrality Act 1935

    U.S.
    Saturday Aug 31, 1935

    The United States, concerned with events in Europe and Asia, passed the Neutrality Act at August 1935. The 1935 act, signed on August 31, 1935, imposed a general embargo on trading in arms and war materials with all parties in a war. It also declared that American citizens traveling on warring ships traveled at their own risk.


  • U.S.
    Sunday Sep 8, 1935
    Frank Sinatra

    The Major Bowes Amateur Hour

    U.S.
    Sunday Sep 8, 1935

    He got his first break in 1935 when his mother persuaded a local singing group, the 3 Flashes, to let him join. Fred Tamburro, the group's baritone, stated that "Frank hung around us like we were gods or something", admitting that they only took him on board because he owned a car and could chauffeur the group around. Sinatra soon learned they were auditioning for the Major Bowes Amateur Hour show, and "begged" the group to let him in on the act. With Sinatra, the group became known as the Hoboken Four, and passed an audition from Edward Bowes to appear on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour show. They each earned $12.50 for the appearance, and ended up attracting 40,000 votes and won first prize—a six-month contract to perform on stage and radio across the United States.


  • Santa Ana, California, U.S.
    Friday Sep 13, 1935
    Howard Hughes: The Aviator

    Setting records

    Santa Ana, California, U.S.
    Friday Sep 13, 1935

    On September 13, 1935, Hughes, flying the H-1, set the landplane airspeed record of 352 mph (566 km/h) over his test course near Santa Ana, California (Giuseppe Motta reached 362 mph in 1929 and George Stainforth reached 407.5 mph in 1931, both in seaplanes). This was the last time in history that the world airspeed record was set in an aircraft built by a private individual.


  • Germany
    Sunday Sep 15, 1935
    Adolf Hitler

    Nuremberg Laws

    Germany
    Sunday Sep 15, 1935

    The Nazis embraced the concept of racial hygiene. On 15 September 1935, Hitler presented two laws—known as the Nuremberg Laws—to the Reichstag. The laws banned sexual relations and marriages between Aryans and Jews and were later extended to include "Gypsies, Negroes or their bastard offspring".


  • Germany
    Sunday Sep 15, 1935
    Heinrich Himmler

    Nuremberg Laws

    Germany
    Sunday Sep 15, 1935

    On 15 September 1935, Hitler presented two laws—known as the Nuremberg Laws—to the Reichstag. The laws banned marriage between non-Jewish and Jewish Germans and forbade the employment of non-Jewish women under the age of 45 in Jewish households. The laws also deprived so-called "non-Aryans" of the benefits of German citizenship. These laws were among the first race-based measures instituted by the Third Reich.


  • Berlin, Germany
    Sunday Sep 15, 1935
    The Holocaust

    Nuremberg Laws

    Berlin, Germany
    Sunday Sep 15, 1935

    On 15 September 1935, the Reichstag passed the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, known as the Nuremberg Laws. The former said that only those of "German or kindred blood" could be citizens. Anyone with three or more Jewish grandparents was classified as a Jew. The second law said: "Marriages between Jews and subjects of the state of German or related blood are forbidden." Sexual relationships between them were also criminalized; Jews were not allowed to employ German women under the age of 45 in their homes.


  • Madrid, Spain
    1935
    Severo Ochoa

    Spanish Civil War

    Madrid, Spain
    1935

    Within two years, he was offered the directorship of the Physiology Section in a newly created Institute for Medical Research at the University of Madrid Medical School. Unfortunately the appointment was made just as the Spanish Civil War erupted. Ochoa decided that trying to perform research in such an environment would destroy forever his "chances of becoming a scientist." Thus, "after much thought, my wife and I decided to leave Spain."


  • Ethiopia
    Thursday Oct 3, 1935
    World War II

    Second Italo-Ethiopian War

    Ethiopia
    Thursday Oct 3, 1935

    The Second Italo–Ethiopian War was a brief colonial war that began in October 1935 and ended in May 1936. The war began with the invasion of the Ethiopian Empire by the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy. The war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia and its annexation into the newly created colony of Italian East Africa.


  • Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
    Thursday Oct 24, 1935
    Lucky Luciano

    Schultz assassination

    Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
    Thursday Oct 24, 1935

    The group's first test came in 1935, when it ordered Dutch Schultz to drop his plans to murder Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey. Luciano argued that a Dewey assassination would precipitate a massive law enforcement crackdown; it has long been a hard and fast rule in the American underworld that police officers, federal agents and prosecutors are not to be harmed. A defiant Schultz told the Commission that he was going to kill Dewey (or his assistant David Asch) in the next three days. In response, the Commission quickly arranged Schultz's murder. On October 24, 1935, before he could kill Dewey or Asch, Schultz was murdered in a tavern in Newark, New Jersey.


  • Shaanxi, China
    Nov, 1935
    Mao Zedong

    The Chairman of The Military Commission

    Shaanxi, China
    Nov, 1935

    In November 1935, he was named chairman of the Military Commission. From this point onward, Mao was the Communist Party's undisputed leader, even though he would not become party chairman until 1943.


  • Bilbeis, Al Sharqia, Egypt
    Friday Nov 15, 1935
    Magdi Yacoub

    Born

    Bilbeis, Al Sharqia, Egypt
    Friday Nov 15, 1935

    Yacoub was born on 16 November 1935 in Bilbeis, Al Sharqia, Egypt to Coptic family.


  • Paris, France
    Sunday Nov 17, 1935
    Eiffel Tower

    An improved 180-line transmitter was installed

    Paris, France
    Sunday Nov 17, 1935

    In April 1935, the tower was used to make experimental low-resolution television transmissions, using a shortwave transmitter of 200 watts power. On 17 November, an improved 180-line transmitter was installed.


  • Arnhem, Netherlands
    1935
    Audrey Hepburn

    Ella moved with Hepburn to her family's estate in Arnhem

    Arnhem, Netherlands
    1935

    That same year, Ella moved with Hepburn to her family's estate in Arnhem; her half-brothers Alex and Ian (then 15 and 11) were sent to The Hague to live with relatives.


  • China
    Monday Nov 25, 1935
    Second Sino-Japanese War

    East Hebei Autonomous Council

    China
    Monday Nov 25, 1935

    By the end of 1935 the Chinese government had essentially abandoned northern China. In its place, the Japanese-backed East Hebei Autonomous Council and the Hebei–Chahar Political Council were established.


  • New York, U.S.
    Dec, 1935
    DC Comics

    New Comics

    New York, U.S.
    Dec, 1935

    The company's second title, New Comics #1 (Dec. 1935), appeared in a size close to what would become comic books' standard during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books, with slightly larger dimensions than today's.


  • China
    1935
    Disasters with highest death tolls

    1935 Yangtze River Flood

    China
    1935

    After the 1931 Central China floods, The Yangtze again flooded in 1935, causing great loss of life. Death toll (estimate): 145,000.


  • Berlin, Germany
    1935
    Joseph Goebbels

    "Bolshevism is the declaration of war by Jewish-led international subhumans against culture itself"

    Berlin, Germany
    1935

    At the 1935 Nazi party congress rally at Nuremberg, Goebbels declared that "Bolshevism is the declaration of war by Jewish-led international subhumans against culture itself."


  • Berlin, Germany
    1935
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels declared that Bolshevism is the declaration of war by Jewish-led international subhumans against culture itself

    Berlin, Germany
    1935

    At the 1935 Nazi party congress rally at Nuremberg, Goebbels declared that Bolshevism is the declaration of war by Jewish-led international subhumans against culture itself.


  • Berlin, Germany
    1935
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels wanted to expulsion Jews from Berlin

    Berlin, Germany
    1935

    Goebbels had been pressing for the expulsion of the Berlin Jews since 1935, there were still 62,000 living in the city in 1940.


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