Events from the year 1935 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government President: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D-New York) Vice President: John Nance Garner (D-Texas) Chief Justice: Charles Evans Hughes (New York) Speaker of the House of Representatives: Joseph W. Byrns, Sr. (D-Tennessee) Senate Majority Leader: Joseph Taylor Robinson (D-Arkansas) Congress: 73rd (until January 3), 74th (starting January 3)
State governments Governors and lieutenant governors Governors
Lieutenant governors
Events
January–March January 3 – The trial of Richard Hauptmann, accused of the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr., begins in Flemington, New Jersey. January 4 – Dry Tortugas National Park is established in the Florida Keys, United States. January 11 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California. January 14 – Bibb Graves is sworn in for a second consecutive term as the 38th governor of Alabama replacing Benjamin M. Miller. January 16 – The FBI kills the Barker Gang, including Ma Barker, in a shootout. January 19 – Coopers Inc. sells the world's first men's briefs, as "jockeys", in Chicago. February 7 – First known published use of the term "Ivy League".In The Christian Science Monitor. February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the Lindbergh kidnapping. February 22 – Airplanes are banned from flying over the White House. February 23 – The classic Mickey Mouse cartoon The Band Concert is released by United Artists in the United States. February 27 – The 7th Academy Awards, hosted by Irvin S. Cobb, are presented at Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, with Frank Capra's It Happened One Night becoming the first film to win all of the top five award categories, including Outstanding Production and Best Director. Victor Schertzinger's One Night of Love receives the most nominations with six. March 2 – Porky Pig makes his debut in Looney Tunes's I Haven't Got a Hat. March 19 – Harlem riot of 1935: A race riot breaks out in Harlem (New York City), after a rumor circulates that a teenage Puerto Rican shoplifter in the S. H. Kress & Co. department store has been brutally beaten.
April–June April 1 – The North American NA-16, prototype of the North American T-6 Texan or Harvard flying trainer, flies for the first time.Hagedorn 1997, p. 15. April 14 – Dust Bowl: The great Black Sunday dust storm (made famous by Woody Guthrie in his "dust bowl ballads") hits hardest in eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma. April 16 – Fibber McGee and Molly debuts on NBC Radio. May 6 – New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA). May 24 – The first nighttime Major League Baseball game is played, between the Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies at Crosley Field in Cincinnati. May 27 – Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (the "Sick Chicken Case"): The Supreme Court of the United States declares that the National Industrial Recovery Act, a major component of the New Deal, is unconstitutional. May 30 – Eventual Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth appears in his last career game, playing for the Boston Braves in Philadelphia against the Phillies. May 30–June 2 – 1935 Republican River flood (called "Nebraska's Deadliest Flood") June – National Youth Administration established. June 10 – Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio by Bill W. (William G. Wilson) and Dr. Bob (Smith). June 12–13 – Senator Huey Long of Louisiana makes the longest speech on Senate record, taking 15 hours and containing 150,000 words. June 13 – James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer at Madison Square Garden Bowl in New York City to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world.
July–September July 6 – The National Labor Relations Act becomes law. July 16 – The world's first parking meters are installed in Oklahoma City. July 24 – The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures in Chicago to a record-high July 27 – Federal Writers' Project is established. August 2 – The is raised from Lake Champlain. August 5 – The Leo Burnett Advertising Agency opens in Chicago, Illinois. August 14 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law. August 15 – Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post are killed when Post's plane crashes shortly after takeoff near Barrow, Alaska. August 31 – As part of United States non-interventionism in the face of growing tensions in Europe, the first of the Neutrality Acts of 1930s is passed. September 2 – Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: The strongest hurricane ever to strike the United States makes landfall in the Upper Florida Keys killing 423. It is rated as a Category 5 storm with 185 mph winds. September 8 Carl Weiss fatally wounds Huey Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana ("The Kingfish"), in a shooting at the Louisiana Capitol Building in Baton Rouge. Busby Berkeley is involved in three-car accident which kills three people and injures five, leading to charges of second-degree murder. September 23 – The Cleveland Torso Murderer begins a 3-year series of killings and beheadings around the Kingsbury Run district of Cleveland, Ohio; the perpetrator is never identified. September 24 – Earl W. Bascom and his brother Weldon produce the first night rodeo held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi. September 30 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Hoover Dam.
October–December October 7 - The Detroit Tigers defeat the Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2, to win their first World Series Title. October 18 – The 6.5 Helena earthquake affected the capital of Montana with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), causing widespread damage and two deaths. A high intensity aftershock claimed an additional two lives on October 31. November 8 – A dozen labor union leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), an organization charged with promoting the cause of industrial unionism in North America. November 15 Historical Records Survey begins under the Works Progress Administration. The then U.S. colony of the Philippines (now independent) becomes a Commonwealth with Manuel Quezon as its president. November 22 – The China Clipper takes off from Alameda, California to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean; the aircraft reaches its destination, Manila, and delivers over 110,000 pieces of mail. November 30 – The British-made film Scrooge, the first all-talking film version of Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol, 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 does not surface until the film is shown on television in the 1980s, in very shabby-looking prints. It is eventually restored on DVD. December 5 – Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women. December 9 – Newspaper editor Walter Liggett is killed in a gangland murder plot in Minneapolis. December 17 – Douglas DST, prototype of the Douglas DC-3 airliner, first flies. More than 16,000 of the model will eventually be produced. December 26 – Shenandoah National Park is established in Virginia.
Undated The house Fallingwater in southwestern Pennsylvania, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is completed. 4 million members of trade unions in the U.S. American Institute of Public Opinion, as predecessor of Gallup Group, a management consulting and worldwide research management institution business, founded in New Jersey, United States.
Ongoing Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937) Dust Bowl (1930–1936) New Deal (1933–1938) Great Depression (1929–1939)
Births
January
January 2 – Jack Lemley, American architect (d. 2021) January 3 – Millard Fuller, American lawyer, founder of Habitat for Humanity (d. 2009) January 4 – Floyd Patterson, African-American heavyweight boxer (d. 2006) January 5 – Chuck Flores, American drummer (d. 2016) January 6 Gerald R. Molen, American actor and producer Nino Tempo, American singer (d. 2025) January 7 Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2006) Ducky Schofield, baseball player (d. 2022) January 8 – Elvis Presley, American rock & roll singer, guitarist and film actor (d. 1977) January 9 Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005) Dick Enberg, American sportscaster (d. 2017) Earl G. Graves Sr., African-American publisher (d. 2020) January 10 Eddy Clearwater, African-American musician (d. 2018) Ronnie Hawkins, American rockabilly musician (d. 2022) Sherrill Milnes, American baritone January 11 – Walter Mears, journalist and author (d. 2022) January 12 – The Amazing Kreskin, mentalist (d. 2024)Persico, Joyce J. "The Amazing Kreskin, an N.J. native, continues to impress, prepares for Rider show", The Times (Trenton), May 27, 2014. Accessed October 25, 2015 January 13 – Rip Taylor, American actor and comedian (d. 2019) January 16 Joyce Crouch, American politician (b. 2018). Russ McCubbin, American actor (d. 2018) A. J. Foyt, American race car driver January 17 – Ruth Ann Minner, American politician (d. 2021) January 20 Dorothy Provine, American singer, dancer, actress and comedian (d. 2010) Joan Weston, American roller derby racer (d. 1997) January 21 – Raye Montague, American naval engineer (d. 2018) January 22 Seymour Cassel, American actor (d. 2019) Pete du Pont, American attorney, businessman, and politician, 68th governor of Delaware (d. 2021) January 25 Conrad Burns, American politician (d. 2016) Steve Demeter, American baseball player, coach and manager (d. 2013) Don Maynard, American football player (d. 2022)Don Maynard, legendary Jets WR and Hall of Famer, dies at 86 Richard M. Pollack, American mathematician (d. 2018) January 26 Henry Jordan, American football player (d. 1977) Andrew J. Stofan, American astronautical engineer (d. 2025) January 29 – Roger Payne, American zoologist (d. 2023) January 30 – Richard Brautigan, American writer (d. 1984) January 31 – Hal Lear, American basketball player (d. 2016)
February
February 2 – Raven Wilkinson, American dancer (d. 2018) February 3 Johnny "Guitar" Watson, African-American singer, songwriter and musician (d. 1996) Jody Williams, African-American blues musician (d. 2018) February 4 Fred Kirschenmann, American agriculturist (d. 2025) Collin Wilcox, American actress (d. 2009) February 5 – Colin Robert Chase, academic (d. 1984) February 7 – Herb Kohl, American politician (d. 2023) February 10 John Alcorn, American illustrator (d. 1992) Eddie Foy III, American actor, film director (d. 2018) February 11 – Gene Vincent, American guitarist, vocalist (d. 1971) February 12 – Gene McDaniels, African-American singer, songwriter (d. 2011) February 13 Carol Jarecki, American chess organizer and writer (d. 2021)Carol Jarecki, Respected Chess Referee, Dies at 86 Jacob Tanzer, American attorney (d. 2018) February 14 – Arnold Kopelson, American film producer (d. 2018) February 15 – Roger B. Chaffee, American astronaut (d. 1967) February 16 – Sonny Bono, American singer, actor and politician (d. 1998) February 17 Johnny Bush, American country music singer, songwriter and drummer (d. 2020) Sara Ruddick, American feminist philosopher (d. 2011) Ruth Seymour, American broadcasting executive (d. 2023)Ruth Seymour, tastemaker who made KCRW a public radio powerhouse, dies at 88 Lucky Varela, American politician (d. 2017) February 25 Tony Campolo, American sociologist and Baptist pastor (d. 2024)Tony Campolo (1935-2024): The Red Letter Christian who provoked the Church to action Sally Jessy Raphael, American talk show host
March
March 1 – Robert Conrad, American actor (The Wild Wild West) (d. 2020) March 6 – Ralph Natale, American mobster (d. 2022)