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Birthdays

January 1 - B. Kliban, American cartoonist (d. 1990)
January 3 - Raymond Garneau, French Canadian politician and businessman
January 4 - Floyd Patterson, American boxer (d. 2006)
January 6 - Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela, Tsaritsa of Bulgaria
January 6 - Nino Tempo, American singer and actor
January 7 - Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (d. 2006)
January 7 - Tommy Johnson, American tubist (d. 2006)
January 7 - Valeri Kubasov, Soviet cosmonaut
January 8 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
January 9 - Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005)
January 9 - Dick Enberg, American sportscaster
January 9 - Earl G. Graves, Sr.
January 9 - Brian Harradine, Australian independent Senator
January 10 - Ronnie Hawkins, American musician
January 10 - Sherrill Milnes, American baritone
January 11 - Ghita Nørby, Danish actress
January 12 - Kreskin, American mentalist
January 12 - Tomiko Ishii, Japanese actress
January 13 - Mauro Forghieri, Italian automotive & mechanical engineer (Scuderia Ferrari)
January 13 - Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress
January 14 - Lucille Wheeler, Canadian alpine skier
January 16 - A.J. Foyt, American race car driver and team owner
January 17 - Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware
January 18 - Albert Millaire, Quebec actor and theatre director
January 18 - Jon Stallworthy, English poet
January 18 - Gad Yaacobi, Israeli minister (d. 2007)
January 19 - Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer (d. 1978)
January 20 - Joan Weston, Roller Derby Queen (d. 1997)
January 22 - Seymour Cassel, American actor
January 24 - Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (d. 2008)
January 25 - António Ramalho Eanes, 17th President of Portugal
January 26 - Bob Uecker, American baseball player and broadcaster
January 28 - David Lodge, English author
January 30 - Richard Brautigan, American writer and poet (d. 1984)
January 31 - Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese writer
February 4 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (d. 1989)
February 10 - John Alcorn (artist), American designer and illustrator (d. 1992)
February 11 - Bent Lorentzen, Danish composer
February 11 - Gene Vincent, American musician (d. 1971)
February 12 - Gene McDaniels, American singer
February 13 - Dr. Don Panoz, American entrepreneur and motorsports impresario (ALMS)
February 15 - Susan Brownmiller, American feminist and writer
February 15 - Roger Chaffee, astronaut (d. 1967)
February 15 - Gene Hickerson, American football player
February 16 - Sonny Bono, American entertainer & U.S. Congressman (d. 1998)
February 17 - Christina Pickles, UK-born American actress
February 18 - Michel Aoun, Lebanese prime minister
February 21 - Mark McManus, Scottish actor (d. 1994)
February 21 - Jean Pelletier, French Canadian political operative
February 25 - Sally Jessy Raphaël, American talk show host
February 27 - Mirella Freni, Italian soprano
March 1 - Robert Conrad, American actor
March 2 - Al Waxman, Canadian actor (d. 2001)
March 4 - Bent Larsen, Danish chess player
March 4 - Nancy Whiskey, Scottish folk singer (d. 2003)
March 6 - Ron Delany, Irish athlete
March 9 - Andrew Viterbi, American telecommunications scientist and businessman
March 10 - Graham Farmer, Australian rules footballer
March 11 - Sandra Milo, Italian actress
March 12 - John Doherty, English footballer (d. 2007)
March 13 - Joseph Mascolo, American actor
March 13 - Leslie Parrish, American actress
March 13 - Michael Walzer, American philosopher
March 15 - Judd Hirsch, American actor
March 15 - Jimmy Swaggart, American televangelist
March 16 - Teresa Berganza, Spanish soprano
March 18 - Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician
March 20 - Ted Bessell, American actor (d. 1996)
March 21 - Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager (d. 2004)
March 22 - M. Emmet Walsh, American actor
March 24 - Peter Bichsel, Swiss writer
March 25 - Flash Elorde, Filipino boxer
March 26 - Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority
March 27 - Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer
March 27 - Julian Glover, British actor
March 27 - Fr. Stanley Rother, Roman Catholic Priest
March 28 - Michael Parkinson, English broadcaster
March 30 - Karl Berger, German musicologist and musician
March 30 - Willie Galimore, American football player (d. 1964)
March 31 - Herb Alpert, American trumpeter and band leader
March 31 - Judith Rossner, American author
April 1 - Larry McDonald, American politician (d. 1983)
April 5 - Peter Grant, British music manager (d. 1995)
April 7 - Bobby Bare, American musician
April 7 - Hodding Carter III, American journalist and politician
April 8 - Albert Bustamante, American politician
April 9 - Avery Schreiber, American actor (d. 2002)
April 10 - John A. Bennett, American convicted rapist (d. 1961)
April 11 - Richard Berry, American singer and composer (d. 1997)
April 11 - Richard Kuklinski, American mafia hitman (d. 2006)
April 13 - Lyle Waggoner, American actor
April 14 - Loretta Lynn, American singer/songwriter
April 14 - Erich von Däniken, Swiss writer
April 16 - Sarah Kirsch, German poet
April 16 - Bobby Vinton, American singer
April 17 - Theo Angelopoulos, Greek film director
April 19 - Dudley Moore, English actor
April 21 - Charles Grodin, American actor
April 21 - Thomas Kean, American politician
April 22 - Paul Chambers, American jazz bassist (d. 1969)
April 23 - Bunky Green, American musician
April 25 - April Ashley, English model
May 1 - Ann Robinson, American actress
May 2 - King Faisal II of Iraq, (d. 1958)
May 2 - Lance LeGault, American actor
May 2 - Luis Suárez Miramontes, Spanish footballer and manager
May 3 - Ron Popeil, American inventor
May 5 - Douglas Marland, American television writer (d. 1993)
May 5 - Bernard Pivot, French journalist and television host
May 5 - Robert Rehme, American film producer
May 7 - Isobel Warren, Canadian author
May 8 - Princess Elisabeth of Denmark, 7th in the Line of succession to the Danish Throne
May 8 - Jack Charlton, English footballer
May 9 - Nokie Edwards, American guitarist (The Ventures)
May 9 - Roger Hargreaves, English children's author (Mr. Men) (d. 1988)
May 10 - Larry Williams, American singer and songwriter (d. 1980)
May 11 - Doug McClure, American actor (d. 1995)
May 11 - Francisco Umbral, Spanish novelist (d. 2007)
May 12 - Felipe Alou, Dominican baseball player and manager
May 12 - Johnny Bucyk, Canadian ice hockey player
May 13 - Dominic Cossa, American baritone
May 15 - Utah Phillips, American labor organizer and folk singer
May 16 - James Bolam, English actor
May 17 - Dennis Potter, English writer (d. 1994)
May 19 - David Hartman, American actor and television personality
May 22 - Ron Piché, Quebec baseball player
May 24 - Joan Micklin Silver, American director
May 25 - Cookie Gilchrist, American football player
May 25 - Victoria Shaw, Australian-born American actress (d. 1988)
May 26 - Sheila Steafel, South African-born British actress
May 27 - Lee Meriwether, Miss America and actress
May 27 - Ramsey Lewis, American pianist
May 27 - Mal Evans, British Beatles assistant (d. 1976)
May 31 - Jim Bolger, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand
June 1 - Reverend Ike, American televangelist
June 2 - Carol Shields, American-born novelist (d. 2003)
June 2 - Roger Brierley, English actor (d. 2005)
June 2 - Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek turkologist
June 4 - Colette Boky, Quebec operatic soprano
June 7 - Harry Crews, American author
June 7 - Thomas Kailath, American engineer
June 10 - Vic Elford, British racing driver
June 13 - Christo, Bulgarian artist
June 13 - Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebonnt, French artist
June 13 - Samak Sundaravej, Thai 25th Prime Minister (former)
June 16 - Bill Cobbs, American actor
June 16 - Jim Dine, American artist
June 18 - Hugh McColl, American banker
June 20 - Len Dawson, former football player
June 20 - Neal Knox, gun rights activist (d. 2005)
June 21 - Françoise Sagan, French writer (d. 2004)
June 23 - Maurice Ferre, former mayor of Miami
June 24 - Terry Riley, American composer
June 25 - Eddie Floyd, American singer
June 27 - Laurent Terzieff, French actor
June 27 - Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (d. 2007)
June 28 - John Inman, English actor (d. 2007)
June 29 - Katsuya Nomura, Japanese baseball player and manager
July 3 - Harrison Schmitt, American astronaut and politician
July 4 - Paul Scoon, Governor General of Grenada
July 5 - John Gilmore, American true crime author
July 6 - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
July 8 - Steve Lawrence, American entertainer and singer
July 8 - Vitali Sevastyanov, Russian cosmonaut
July 9 - Wim Duisenberg, Dutch economist and politician (d. 2005)
July 9 - Michael Williams, English actor (d. 2001)
July 10 - Tura Satana, American actress
July 11 - Oliver Napier, Northern Irish politician
July 11 - Frederick Hemke, American saxophonist
July 13 - Jack Kemp, American football player and politician
July 15 - Donn Clendenon, baseball player (d. 2005)
July 15 - Ken Kercheval, American actor
July 15 - Alex Karras, American football player and actor
July 17 - Diahann Carroll, American actor
July 17 - Peter Schickele, American author and radio host
July 17 - Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
July 18 - Jayendra Saraswathi, Hindu religious leader
July 19 - Vasily Livanov, Russian and Soviet film actor
July 20 - Ted Rogers, English comedian (d. 2001)
July 21 - Norbert Blüm, German politician
July 21 - Moe Drabowsky, baseball player (d. 2006)
July 22 - Tom Cartwright, Former England cricketer (d. 2007)
July 23 - Jim Hall, American race car driver and constructor (Chaparral Cars)
July 23 - Hein Heinsen, Danish artist
July 24 - Pat Oliphant, Australian political cartoonist
July 24 - Derek Varnals, South African cricketer
July 25 - Barbara Harris, American actress
July 25 - Larry Sherry, American baseball player (d. 2006)
July 25 - Lars Werner, Swedish communist leader
July 25 - Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi arms merchant
July 27 - Billy McCullough, Northern Irish footballer
July 28 - Simon Dee, British television broadcaster
July 29 - Peter Schreier, German tenor
July 30 - Ted Rogers, English comedian and game show host (d. 2001)
July 31 - Yvon Deschamps, French-Canadian author and humorist
July 31 - Geoffrey Lewis, American actor
August 1 - Geoff Pullar, Former England cricketer
August 2 - Hank Cochran, American country music singer and songwriter
August 3 - Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1997)
August 3 - Vic Vogel, Canadian pianist
August 5 - John Saxon, American actor
August 8 - Donald P. Bellisario, American television producer
August 8 - John Laws, Australia radio personality
August 12 - John Cazale, Italian-American actor (d. 1978)
August 13 - Mudcat Grant, American baseball player
August 13 - Rod Hull, British television entertainer (d. 1999)
August 14 - John Brodie, American football player
August 15 - Jim Dale, English actor
August 15 - Vernon Jordan Jr., American presidential advisor
August 15 - Lionel Taylor, American football player
August 16 - Andreas Stamatiadis, Greek footballer and coach
August 16 - Cliff Fletcher, Canadian National Hockey League executive
August 17 - Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor
August 18 - Rafer Johnson, American athlete
August 18 - Howard Morrison, New Zealand entertainer
August 19 - Bobby Richardson, American baseball player
August 20 - Ron Paul, US Congressman
August 22 - E. Annie Proulx, American author
August 25 - Charles Wright, American poet
August 26 - Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
August 27 - Ernie Broglio, American baseball player
August 27 - Frank Yablans, American film producer
August 28 - Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (d. 1998)
August 29 - William Friedkin, American film director
August 30 - John Phillips, American singer (Mamas and the Papas) (d. 2001)
August 31 - Eldridge Cleaver, American political activist (d. 1998)
August 31 - Frank Robinson, American baseball player and manager
September 1 - Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
September 2 - D. Wayne Lukas, American horse trainer
September 5 - Johnny Briggs MBE, English actor
September 9 - Chaim Topol, Israeli actor
September 9 - Gopal Baratham, Singaporean author
September 10 - Mary Oliver, American poet
September 11 - Arvo Pärt, Estonian composer
September 11 - Gherman Titov, second man in space (d. 2000)
September 14 - Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (d. 2008)
September 16 - Carl Andre, American artist
September 16 - Bob Kiley, American public transit specialist
September 17 - Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)
September 18 - John Spencer, English snooker player (d. 2006)
September 19 - Benjamin Hacker, American naval aviator (d. 2003)
September 19 - Nick Massi, American singer (The Four Seasons) (d. 2000)
September 20 - Jim Taylor, National Football League player
September 20 - Keith Roberts, British science fiction author (d. 2000)
September 20 - David Pegg, English footballer (d. 1958)
September 21 - Jimmy Armfield, Former English Footballer and Manager
September 21 - Henry Gibson, American actor
September 24 - Sean McCann, Canadian actor
September 26 - Joe Sherlock, Irish Labour Party politician (d. 2007)
September 28 - Heather Sears, British actress (d. 1994)
September 29 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
September 30 - Johnny Mathis, American singer
September 30 - Z. Z. Hill, American blues singer (d. 1984)
October 1 - Dame Julie Andrews, British actress and singer
October 2 - Omar Sivori, Argentine football player (d. 2005)
October 3 - Charles Duke, American astronaut
October 5 - Arlene Saunders, American soprano
October 6 - Bruno Sammartino, Italian strongman and professional wrestler
October 6 - Charito Solis, Filipino actress (d. 1998)
October 7 - Thomas Keneally, Australian author
October 9 - Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
October 10 - André Bureau, French Canadian communications executive
October 10 - Abu Jihad, Founder of the Palestinian group Fatah (d. 1988)
October 12 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (d. 2007)
October 12 - Sam Moore, American R&B singer (Sam & Dave)
October 12 - Don Howe, English football player and manager
October 14 - La Monte Young, American composer
October 15 - Bobby Joe Morrow, American sprinter
October 15 - Barry McGuire, American singer
October 15 - Willie O'Ree, Canadian Hockey Player
October 18 - Peter Boyle, American actor (d. 2006)
October 20 - Jerry Orbach, American actor (d. 2004)
October 22 - Ann Rule, American true-crime writer
October 23 - Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodríguez, Puerto Rican golfer
October 24 - Malcolm Bilson, American pianist and music professor
October 25 - Russell Schweickart, astronaut
October 28 - Alan Clarke, British film director
October 29 - Takahata Isao, Japanese animated film director
October 30 - Agota Kristof, Hungarian writer
October 30 - Michael Winner, British film director
October 30 - Jim Perry, American baseball player
October 30 - Robert Caro, American biographer
November 1 - Gary Player, South African golfer
November 1 - Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (d. 2003)
November 5 - Lester Piggott, British jockey
November 5 - Christopher Wood, English screenwriter and novellist
November 8 - Alain Delon, French actor
November 8 - Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal Bishop
November 9 - Bob Gibson, American baseball player
November 10 - Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist
November 10 - Bernard Babior, American biochemist
November 13 - Tom Atkins, American actor
November 13 - George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury
November 14 - King Hussein of Jordan, (d. 1999)
November 17 - Bobby Joe Conrad, American football player
November 17 - Toni Sailer, Austrian skier
November 18 - Rudolf Bahro, German dissident (d. 1997)
November 18 - Rodney Hall, Australian author
November 19 - Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian imam (d. 1990)
November 19 - Jack Welch, American businessman
November 21 - Fairuz, Lebanese singer
November 23 - Vladislav Volkov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 1971)
November 24 - Ronald Vernie Dellums, U.S. Representative from California
November 27 - Al Jackson, American drummer
November 27 - Les Blank, American documentary filmmaker
November 28 - Prince Hitachi, Japanese royalty
November 28 - Randolph Stow, Australian author
December 1 - Woody Allen, American film director
December 2 - David Hackett Fischer, American historian
December 4 - Paul O'Neill, American businessman and former Secretary of the Treasury
December 4 - Robert Vesco, American financier and fugitive
December 5 - Calvin Trillin, American writer
December 5 - Yury Vlasov, Soviet weightlifter
December 6 - Jean Lapointe, Quebec comedian
December 8 - Dharmendra, Indian actor
December 8 - Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Israeli chess player
December 10 - Terry Allcock, English footballer
December 11 - Ron Carey, American actor (d. 2007)
December 11 - Pranab Mukherjee, Indian politician
December 11 - Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
December 13 - Joe Christopher, American baseball player
December 13 - Ken Hall, American football player
December 13 - Lindy McDaniel, American baseball player
December 14 - Lewis Arquette, American film actor
December 14 - Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991)
December 17 - George Lindsey, American actor
December 17 - Cal Ripken, Sr.
December 18 - Jacques Pépin, French chef
December 19 - Barbara Bostock, American actress
December 19 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (d. 1974)
December 20 - Khalid Ibadulla, Pakistani cricket player
December 21 - John G. Avildsen, American film director
December 21 - Lorenzo Bandini, Italian racecar driver (d. 1967)
December 21 - Yusuf Bey (Joseph Stephens), American activist (d. 2003)
December 21 - Phil Donahue, American talk show host
December 21 - Edward Schreyer, Canadian politician
December 23 - Paul Hornung, American football player
December 23 - Esther Phillips, American singer (d. 1984)
December 25 - Al Jackson, baseball player
December 26 - Abdul "Duke" Fakir, American singer (The Four Tops)
December 26 - Norm Ullman, Canadian hockey player
December 30 - Omar Bongo, President of Gabon
December 30 - Sandy Koufax, American baseball player
December 30 - Jack Riley, American actor

Deaths

January 10 - Edwin Flack, Australian athlete
January 16 - Ma Barker, American criminal (b. 1871)
January 28 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (b. 1859)
February 3 - Hugo Junkers, German engineer (b. 1859)
February 12 - Auguste Escoffier, French chef (b. 1846)
February 28 - Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (b. 1847).
March 6 - Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian, (b. 1895)
March 16 - John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist
March 16 - Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player (b. 1886)
March 23 - Florence Moore, American actress (b. 1886)
March 31 - Georges V. Matchabelli, Perfumer (b. 1885)
April 6 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (b. 1869)
April 14 - Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)
April 18 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (b. 1884)
April 29 - Leroy Carr, American blues singer
May 1 - Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (b. 1889)
May 12 - Józef Piłsudski, Polish statesman (b. 1867)
May 15 - Kazimir Malevich, Polish/Ukrainian artist (b. 1878)
May 17 - Paul Dukas, French composer (b. 1865)
May 19 - T. E. Lawrence, English soldier known as Lawrence of Arabia (b. 1888)
May 21 - Jane Addams, American social worker
May 25 - Sir Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer (b. 1868)
May 29 - Josef Suk, Czech composer and violinist (b. 1874)
June 6 - Julian Byng, British army officer (b. 1862)
June 22 - Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian
June 24 - Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer (airplane crash) (b. 1890)
June 27 - Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (b. 1857)
June 29 - Jack O'Neill, American baseball player (b. 1873)
July 3 - André Citroën, French automobile pioneer (b. 1878)
July 12 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (b. 1859)
July 17 - George William Russell, Irish nationalist
July 26 - Winsor McCay, American cartoonist (b. 1871)
August 12 - Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (b. 1851)
August 15 - Wiley Post, American pilot (airplane crash) (b. 1898)
August 15 - Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (airplane crash) (b. 1879)
August 21 - John Hartley, English tennis player
August 29 - Queen Astrid of Belgium, (b. 1905)
August 30 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
September 10 - Huey Long, American politician (b. 1893)
September 19 - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist (b. 1857)
September 28 - W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (b. 1860)
October 4 - Jean Béraud, French painter (b. 1849)
October 4 - Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (b. 1874)
October 11 - Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868)
October 20 - Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician
October 22 - Komitas, Armenian composer (b. 1869)
October 24 - Dutch Schultz, American gangster (b. 1902)
October 27 - E. A. D. Eldridge, British racing driver (b. 1897)
November 2 - Jock Cameron, South African cricketer (b. 1905)
November 28 - Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist (b. 1877)
November 30 - Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (b. 1888)
December 4 - Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (b. 1864)
December 4 - Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist
December 9 - Walter Liggett, American crusading newspaper editor and muckraker (b. 1886)
December 13 - Victor Grignard, French chemist
December 14 - Stanley G. Weinbaum, American science-fiction author (b. 1902)
December 16 - Thelma Todd, American actress (b. 1905)
December 20 - Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (b. 1882)
December 21 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist (b. 1890)
December 24 - Alban Berg, Austrian composer (b. 1885)
December 25 - Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (b. 1852)

Events

January 2 - Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
January 7 - Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco–Italian Agreement.
January 11 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
January 13 - A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
January 19 - Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.
January 28 - Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
February 2 - Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine.
February 13 - A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
February 20 - Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
February 26 - The Luftwaffe is re-formed.
February 26 - The Daventry Experiment, Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom.
February 28 - Nylon is invented by Wallace Carothers.
March 9 - Adolf Hitler announces the creation of a new air force.
March 16 - Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription was reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
March 21 - Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans'.
March 23 - Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
April 8 - The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
April 12 - First flight of the Bristol Blenheim.
April 14 - "Black Sunday", the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
April 23 - Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
May 6 - New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration.
May 14 - The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
May 14 - Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proved to be their last victory for 99 matches, a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win was not until May 29, 1939.
May 15 - The Moscow Metro is opened to public.
May 24 - The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 at Crosley Field.
May 25 - Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks five world records and ties a sixth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
May 27 - New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
June 1 - The first driving tests are introduced in the United Kingdom.
June 3 - One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
June 9 - Ho-Umezu Agreement: the Republic of China, under KMT administration, recognizes Japanese occupations in Northeast China.
June 10 - Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
June 11 - Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey.
June 12 - Chaco War ends: a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
June 13 - In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the 10 to 1 underdog James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer in Long Island City, New York, and becomes the heavyweight champion of the world.
June 25 - Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established.
June 30 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
July 1 - Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
July 5 - The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
July 16 - The world's first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
July 20 - Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
July 24 - The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.
July 24 - The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (44°C) in Chicago and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
August 14 - United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired.
August 15 - Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
September 2 - Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: a large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
September 3 - Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph
September 8 - US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.
September 13 - Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the Great Gorge and International Railway.
September 15 - Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
September 15 - Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika.
September 24 - Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
September 30 - The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
October 3 - Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono.
October 10 - A tornado destroys the 160 metre tall wooden radio tower in Langenberg. As a result of this catastrophe, few wooden towers are constructed after this date.
October 19 - The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
October 20 - The Long March ends
October 23 - Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre.
October 24 - Italy invades Ethiopia
October 25 - Hurricane floods Haiti, killing over 2,000 people.
November 3 - George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular plebiscite.
November 6 - Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
November 6 - First flight of the Hawker Hurricane.
November 8 - A dozen labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), an organization charged with advancing industrial unionism.
November 9 - The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
November 15 - Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second president of the Philippines.
November 22 - The China Clipper took off from Alameda, California in an attempt to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean (the airplane later reached its destination, Manila, and delivered over 110,000 pieces of mail).
November 24 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
December 8 - The Japanese military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect Oomoto, beginning with a crackdown on the sect's operational bases of Ayabe and Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture and the arrest of its leader Onisaburo Deguchi.
December 9 - Walter Liggett American newspaper editor and muckraker killed in gangland murder.
December 10 - The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, was given to halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
December 17 - First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
December 18 - The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
December 28 - Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.

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