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**1935**

1935 was a common year that began on a Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar. It was the 935th year of the 2nd millennium and the 35th year of the 20th century.

### January

January 7: Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval concluded an agreement, in which each power agreed not to oppose the other's colonial claims.

January 12: Amelia Earhart became the first person to successfully complete a solo flight from Hawaii to California, a distance of 2,408 miles.

January: The first canned beer was sold in Richmond, Virginia, United States, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company.

### February

February 6: Parker Brothers began selling the board game Monopoly in the United States.

February 13: Richard Hauptmann was convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. (Richard Hauptman was found guilty and sent to death).

February 26: In Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler ordered reinstatement of air quality.

### March

March 11: Attempt coup d'état Greek: Nikolaos Plastiras, Anastasios Papoulas et autres Venizelistes led a coup against the government of the Party Populaire in Greece. The attempt was repressed and the leaders were condemned to death for treason.

March 2: King Prajadhipok (Rama VII) of Siam abdicated the throne.

March 19: Harlem riot of 1935: A racial incident erupted in Harlem (New York), after a rumor circulated that an adolescent Puerto Rican thief in the South.

### April

April 21: Reza Shah of Iran asked the international community to formally adopt the name "Iran" to refer to the country, instead of the name "Persia".

April 22: The world's first regular television program (by Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow) was transmitted from the Funkturm in Berlin, Germany.

April 15: The Roerich Pact, a Pan-American treaty on the protection of cultural artifacts, was signed in Washington, D.C.

April 17: Sun Myung Moon, an adolescent Presbyterian convert in Korea under Japanese rule, claimed to have a revelation from Jesus, telling him to complete his mission from almost 2,000 years ago.

### May

May 14: Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gained what proved to be their last victory for 99 matches, easily a record in the County Championship.

### June

June 9: He Umezu Agreement: China's Kuomintang government conceded to Japan.

June 12: Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by William G. Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith.

June 13: Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia ended.

June 18: Anglo-German Naval Agreement: Britain agreed to a German navy equal to 35% of her own naval tonnage.

June 24: Ten people, including musician Carlos Gardel, were killed in a collision between two Ford Trimotor aircraft.

### July

July 1935 was not mentioned in the provided sources.

### August

August 1935 was not mentioned in the provided sources.

### September

September 1935 was not mentioned in the provided sources.

### October

October 1935 was not mentioned in the provided sources.

### November

November 1935 was not mentioned in the provided sources.

### December

December 1935 was not mentioned in the provided sources.

**Notable Events**

* The Nazi regime began to undermine the Treaty of Versailles, with Reich Minister of Aviation Hermann Göring announcing the establishment of the Luftwaffe and the conversion of the Wehrmacht.
* The Saar region returned to the German Reich, which was directly subordinated to the Reich leadership.
* The Nuremberg laws were laid down, defining the term "Jew" by law and forbidding marriage and sexual contact between Jews and non-Jews.
* Italy declared war on Ethiopia, citing a French-Italian agreement as the basis for its actions.
* The Chaco War ended, with Paraguay gaining almost double its territory at the expense of Bolivia.

**Science**

* The Austrian Nobel Prize winner Ewald Hering was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935.
* The discovery and clinical development of Prontosil, the first widely effective antibiotic, was published in a series of articles by Gerhard Domagk and others in Germany's preeminent medical journal, Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift.