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Last updated: 2008 April 30.

1935 January 1 Associated Press inaugurates Wirephoto. [1] Eastern Airlines hires Eddie Rickenbacker as GM. [1] President Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Atatürk Father of Turkey". [1] January 2 Bruno R Hauptmann trial begins for kidnap-murder of Lindbergh baby. [1] January 4 Bob Hope first heard on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue". [1] Fort Jefferson National Monument, Florida established. [1] January 6 George P Baker US playwright (Dramatic Technique), dies at 68. [1] January 7 Zöe Akins' "Old Maid" premieres in New York City, New York. [1] January 8 Spectrophotometer patented, AC Hardy. [1] January 10 Actress Mary Pickford marries actor Douglas Fairbanks. [1] January 11 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California. [1] [5] January 13 Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Germany. [1] [37] January 14 The British Cabinet decides the Rhineland is not a vital British interest. [10] Oil pipeline Iraq-Mediterranean goes into use. [1] January 15 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition. [1] Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty" premieres in New York City, New York. [1] January 16 Richard Wetz composer, dies at 59. [1] January 19 KLM begins flight path between Curaçao and Aruba. [1] January 21 The Wilderness Society is founded. [1] WFI-AM in Philadelphia Pennsylvania merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ). [1] January 24 First canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale", is sold by Kruger Brewing Co in Richmond Virginia. [1] January 28 Icelandic Law No. 38 legalizes abortion, within first 28 weeks, only if continued pregnancy poses threat to physical or mental health of woman. First country to allow abortion on these grounds. [1] [55.7] Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ippolitov-Ivanov Russian composer, dies at 75. [1] January 30 Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos". [1] January 31 30.5 cm (12.0") of rain falls, Quinault RS Washington (state record). [1] February 1 First "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol. [1] James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy. [1] February 2 Lie detector first used in court (Portage WI). [1] February 6 First election to allow women to vote in Turkey. [1] Board game "Monopoly" goes on sale for the first time. [1] February 7 Monopoly invented by Charles Darrow symbol Rich Uncle Pennybags. [1] February 8 Max Liebermann German impressionist painter/graphic artist, dies at 87. [1] February 9 Karl Nef Swiss musicologist, dies at 61. [1] February 10 Pennsylvania railroad begins passenger service on new streamlined electric locomotive. [1] February 11 -11 degrees F (-24 degrees C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low). [1] First US airplane flight with auto slung beneath the fuselage, New York. [1] February 12 Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean. [1] February 13 First US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland Ohio. [1] Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap and murder of Lindbergh's infant. [1] Violet Paget British author (Gospels of Anarchy), dies at 78. [1] February 19 Clifford Odets' "Awake and Sing" premieres in New York City, New York. [1] February 20 Karoline Mikkelson is first woman on Antarctica. [1] February 22 Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House. [1] February 23 Jan Duiker Dutch architect (Hotel Gooiland), dies at 44. [1] February 26 Germany began Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering. [1] In England, British scientists make the first test of radio wave detection of air planes by short-wave transmitter tower and mobile radio receivers (RADAR). The test is a success. [10] February 28 Alexander W F Idenburg Governor-General of Netherlands Indies (1909-16), dies at 73. [1] Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit. [1] Nylon discovered by Dr Wallace H Carothers. [1] March 3 Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms. [1] March 5 First premature baby health law in US (Chicago). [1] March 7 Saar incorporated into Germany. [1] March 10 Barend Barendse actor/director (Broken Lives), dies at 82. [1] March 11 Bank of Canada opens. [1] Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe. [1] March 12 England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns and villages. [1] March 13 Driving tests introduced in Great Britain. [1] March 14 36-Folsom becomes first line to use one-man streetcars. [1] March 16 In Germany, Adolf Hitler denounces the disarmament clauses of the Versailles Treaty, and begins open re-armament and conscription of soldiers. [10] John J R Macleod Scot/Canadian physiologist (Nobel Prize 1923), dies at 58. [1] March 17 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa call sign is given to KWCR. [1] March 20 "Your Hit Parade" made its debut on radio. [1] March 21 Jean Anouilh's "Y avait un presonnier" premieres in Paris France. [1] Persia officially renamed Iran. [1] March 22 Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (New York). [1] March 24 Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network. [1] March 25 First Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns. [1] March 26 "RvJ" Mitchell and Major Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire. [1] March 28 Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket. [1] March 29 French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage. [1] March 30 Newfoundland changes time to 3.5 hours W of Greenwich, repeats 44 seconds. [1] Romanos Hovakimi Melik'yan composer, dies at 51. [1] April 1 First radio tube made of metal announced, Schenectady New York. [1] April 2 Mary Hirsch, becomes first woman licensed as a horse trainer. [1] Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR. [1] April 5 Croatian Farmers Party wins Yugoslavian election. [1] Emil Mlynarski composer, dies at 64. [1] April 6 Edward Arlington Robinson US poet, dies. [1] April 8 Bartóks 5th String quartet premieres in Washington DC. [1] Edwin Cannan economist, dies. [1] Works Progress Administration approved byUS Congress. [1] April 10 Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London. [1] April 12 "Your Hit Parade", debuts on radio. [1] Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers. [1] Royal Proclamation sets design of Canada's new Jubilee Silver Dollar. [1] April 14 Sandstorm ravages US midwest (Dust Bowl). [1] April 16 First radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee and Molly". [1] April 17 Provincial-National elections (Musserts NSB achieves 7.9%/44 chairs). [1] April 18 General Sarazen's double eagle on the 15th, wins him his second Masters. [1] Ignazio Guidi Italian orientalist/archaeologist, dies at 90. [1] Netherlands election (Musserts NSB wins 8% of vote). [1] April 20 "You're Hit Parade" begins broadcasting (becomes #1 quickly). [1] Juliaan de Vriendt Flemish painter, dies at 92. [1] April 21 King Boris of Bulgaria forbids all political parties. [1] April 24 Paul Klengel composer, dies at 80. [1] April 27 Brussel's World Expo opens. [1] April 28 Alexander Campbell Mackenzie Scottish composer, dies at 87. [1] Moscow underground opens (81 km long). [1] April 29 Leroy Carr blues singer/songwriter/pianist, dies=. [1] April 30 World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul. [1] May 1 Boulder Dam completed. [1] Canada's first silver dollar is made available, struck in 0.8 fine silver. The 1935-dated coin commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the accession to the throne of King George V. [3] May 2 France and the Soviet Union conclude negotiations for a five-year Treaty of Mutual Assistance. [10] May 4 Lodewijk Scharpé Flemish literature historian, dies at 65. [1] May 6 British King George and Queen Mary celebrates silver jubilee. [1] KTM-AM in Los Angeles California changes call letters to KEHE (now KABC). [1] Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush). [1] May 11 Edward H Thompson US archaeologist (Mayan civilization), dies at 78. [1] May 12 Josef Pilsudski Polish dictator (1926-35), dies. [1] May 14 Los Angeles' Griffith Planetarium opens, third in US. [1] Plebiscite in the Philippines ratifies independence agreement. [1] May 16 Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union sign a five-year Treaty of Mutual Assistance. [10] May 17 Paul A Dukas French composer/tutor of Messiaen (Velléda), dies at 69. [1] May 18 Harold Gimblett scores 123 in 80 minutes on debut for Somerset. [1] May 19 Charles Martin Tornow Loeffler French composer, dies at 74. [1] Thomas E Lawrence (of Arabia) dies in a motorcycle crash. [1] May 20 Ivans [Jacob van Schevichaven] lawyer/detective writer, dies at 68. [1] May 21 Hugo de Vries botanist Gruppenweise Artbildung, dies at 87. [1] Jane Addams a founder of ACLU (Nobel Prize 1973), dies at 65. [1] May 23 First scheduled night game, postponed due to rain (Cincinnati). [1] May 24 Swedish princess Ingrid marries Danish crown prince Frederik (IX). [1] May 25 Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark marries Ingrid, daughter of King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden. [7] German Chancellor Adolf Hitler agrees to not intevene in Austria or add Austria to the German Reich. [10] May 27 Supreme Court declares Franklin Roosevelt's National Recovery Act unconstitutional. [1] May 29 Hague local museum opens. [1] Josef Suk Czechoslovakia, violinist/composer, dies at 61. [1] May 30 Lothar Windsperger composer, dies at 49. [1] May 31 Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan. [1] June 3 French Normandie sets Atlantic crossing record of 1,077 hours. [1] June 10 Dr Robert Smith and William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous. [1] June 14 Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay ends. [1] June 18 England and Germany sign a naval treaty, limiting the German surface fleet to 35 percent of British tonnage, and submarine fleet to 45 percent. [10] June 30 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1784 Benguella. [1] July 2 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1357 Khama. [1] July 5 First Hawaii Calls radio program is broadcast. [1] President Franklin Roosevelt signs the National Labor Relations Act. [1] July 16 First automatic parking meter in US installed, Oklahoma City, Ok. [1] July 17 Variety's famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix". [1] July 21 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1358 Gaika. [1] July 22 C Jackson discovers asteroids #1359 Prieska and #1360 Tarka. [1] Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia. [1] July 24 The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR. [5] July 25 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1641 Tana. [1] July 28 G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1386 Storeria. [1] August 12 Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand. [1] August 13 Transcontinental Roller Derby begins (Chicago Coliseum). [1] August 14 Social Security Act became law. [1] August 15 Wiley Post and Will Rogers killed in plane crash in Alaska. [1] August 31 Franklin Roosevelt signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents. [1] September 2 A hurricane slams the Florida Keys killing 423. [1] September 3 First automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph). [1] September 8 Huey P Long (Senator-Louisiana) assassinated at Baton Rouge Capitol building. [1] September 15 Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship and makes the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany. [1] September 30 Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" premiers in Boston. [1] October 2 Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia). [1] New York Hayden Planetarium, the 4th in the US, opens. [1] October 6 Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches. [1] October 8 Ozzie Nelson marries Harriet Hilliard (Ozzie and Harriet). [1] October 10 George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" opens on Broadway. [1] October New York gangster Dutch Schultz is killed by an unknown gunman. Schultz was head of the numbers racket, seldom paying winners. [80.247] October 24 Italy invades Ethiopia. [1] October 25 Hurricane-produced floods kill 2,000 in Jeremie and Jacmel Haiti. [1] November 3 George II returns to Greece and regains monarchy. [1] November 5 Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of M to admit (black) Donald Murray. [1] Parker Brothers launches game of Monopoly. [1] November 6 Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane. [1] [5] Before the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Edwin Armstrong presents his paper, "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" (i.e. FM radio). [5] November 9 US Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms. [1] November 11 Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over South Dakota. [1] November 14 Franklin Roosevelt proclaims the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth. [1] November 15 Commonwealth of Phillipines inaugurated. [1] November 21 First commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper). [1] November 22 China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on first trans-Pacific airmail flight. [1] December 1 Austria has world's first Day of Postage Stamp. [1] Bernard Schmidt inventor (Schmidt camera), dies. [1] December 2 Albert Kessel first to die in California gas chamber. [1] December 4 1,200 at Saint Joseph's College (Philadelphia) enroll in anticommunism class. [1] Johan Halvorsen composer, dies at 71. [1] December 5 First commercial hydroponics operation established (Montebello, California). [1] Frans [MJ François] Erens literary (Years Gone By), dies at 78. [1] National Council of Negro Women forms by Mary McLeod Bethune (New York City, New York). [1] December 10 John H Aberson first rector of Landbouw high school, dies at 78. [1] December 14 Stanley G Weinbaum US, sci-fi writer (Martian Odyssey), dies. [1] December 15 Max Euwe becomes world champion chess beating Alexander Aljechin. [1] December 16 Thelma Todd actress (Horse Feathers, Bohemian Girl), dies of 30. [1] December 18 Edward Benes becomes President of Czechoslovakia. [1] Juan V Gómez general/dictator of Venezuela (1908-35), dies. [1] December 20 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii. [1] December 21 Kurt Tucholsky German journalist/writer (Panter, Tiger and Co), dies at 45. [1] December 22 Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, first awakening in Kamakura. [1] December 24 Alban Maria Johannes Berg composer, dies at 50. [1] Bradman scores 233 in 191 minutes, South Africa vs Queensland, 28 fours 1 six. [1] National Council of Negro Women forms. [1] December 26 Stalin views Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "Lady Macbeth". [1] December 28 Clarence Day writer (Life with Father), dies. [1] W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in New York City, New York. [1] December 30 Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia. [1] December 31 CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party. [1] Charles Darrow patents Monopoly. [1]