1935

Italy invades Ethiopia
Germany reintroduces compulsory military service
Robert W. Watt builds RADAR equipment to detect aircraft
Hummel figurines introduced
Social Security enacted
Jazz becomes "Swing"
1st flight of the Douglas DC-3
Land Speed Record set at 301.337 mph.
The Rumba becomes the fashionable dance
1st beer can
1st use of cortisone
1st heart-lung machine
1st mass market paperback book
Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess"
Films - "Mutiny on the Bounty", "The 39 Steps"
Radio shows - "Your Hit Parade", "Fibber McGee and Molly", "Gangbusters"
Elvis Presley, Eldridge Cleaver, Frank Robinson, Ken Kesey, Woody Allen, Sandy Koufax born
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Will Rogers, Wiley Post, T.E. Lawrence ("of Arabia") die