Timeline 1934 - 1935
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1934 Jan 1,
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the US bank guarantor, became
effective.
(MC, 1/1/02)
1934 Jan 3, The Colleges of the
City of Detroit was renamed to Wayne University after Gen’l. Anthony
Wayne, Revolutionary War hero.
(WSUAN, Winter 1997, p.8)
1934 Jan 4, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt asked Congress for $10.5 billion to fund recovery programs
over the next 18 months.
(SSFC, 1/18/09, p.D6)
1934 Jan 7, The Radio Church of
God under Herbert W. Armstrong began broadcasting in Pasadena, Ca. His
program was called "The World Tomorrow" and his magazine was called
"The Plain Truth."
(WSJ, 2/120/00, p.A1)
1934 Jan 7, Six-thousand pastors
in Berlin defied the Nazis insisting that they will not be muzzled.
(HN, 1/7/99)
1934 Jan 10, Marinus van der Lubbe
(24), a bricklayer and Dutch communist, was executed in Berlin. He had
been convicted of arson and high treason for torching the Reichstag
parliament building on Feb 27, 1933. On Dec 6, 2007, German prosecutors
formally overturned the conviction.
(AP, 1/11/08)
1934 Jan 11, Jean Chretien, Pres.
of Canada, was born.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.A20)
1934 Jan 11, The German police
raided the homes of dissident clergy in Berlin.
(HN, 1/11/99)
1934 Jan 13, Rip Taylor, comedian
(Gong Show, $1.98 Beauty Show), was born.
(MC, 1/13/02)
1934 Jan 15, Babe Ruth signed a
contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut).
(MC, 1/15/02)
1934 Jan 15, Patrick O'Malley, US
policeman, was killed by John Dillinger.
(MC, 1/15/02)
1934 Jan 15, An 8.4 earthquake in
India and Nepal killed some 15,000 people. It damaged the Mahabuddha
Temple in Patan, Nepal, one of but 3 in the world.
(http://asc-india.org/menu/gquakes.htm)(WSJ,
1/22/98, p.A17)
1934 Jan 17, Shari Lewis,
ventriloquist, puppeteer (Lamb Chop), was born in Bronx, NY.
(MC, 1/17/02)
1934 Jan 22, Bill Bixby, actor
(Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian), was born in SF, Calif.
(MC, 1/22/02)
1934 Jan 22, In Tucson, Arizona, a
fire broke out at the Hotel Congress, where members of the Dillinger
gang were staying. Firefighters salvaged baggage belonging to the gang
and the next day one of the firefighters spotted one the gang’s mug
shots in an issue of True Detective magazine. Within a few days 5
members of the Dillinger gang were arrested including John Dillinger
and girlfriend Evelyn Frechette. In 2009 Elliot Gorn authored
“Dillinger’s Wild Ride: The Year That Made America’s Public Enemy
Number One.”
(SFC, 7/1/09, p.E3)
1934 Jan 22, Dmitri Shostakovich
premiered his 1932 opera: "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District," in
Leningrad.
(WSJ, 5/7/02, p.D7)(WSJ, 5/2/03, p.W6)
1934 Jan 26, Germany signed a
10-year non-aggression pact with Poland, breaking the French alliance
system.
(WUD, 1994, p.1682)(HN, 1/26/99)
1934 Jan 27, Julian Ogilvie
Thompson, CEO of De Beers, was born.
(MC, 1/27/02)
1934 Jan 28, The 1st US rope ski
tow began operation at Woodstock, Vermont.
(MC, 1/28/02)
1934 Jan 29, Fritz Haber (65),
German chemist (Nobel 1918), died. In the 1920s Haber exhaustively
searched for a method to extract gold from sea water, and published a
number of scientific papers on the subject. However, after years of
research, he concluded that the concentration of gold dissolved in sea
water was much lower than those concentrations reported by earlier
researchers, and that gold extraction from sea water was uneconomic. In
2005 Daniel Charles authored “Master Mind: The Rise and Fall of Fritz
Haber, the Nobel Laureate Who Launched the Age of Chemical Warfare.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber)(SSFC,
8/7/05, p.C6)
1934 Jan 31, President Roosevelt
devalued the dollar in relation to gold. He raised the price of gold to
$35. The United States Gold Reserve Act required that all gold and gold
certificates held by the Federal Reserve be surrendered and vested in
the sole title of the United States Department of the Treasury.
(AP, 1/31/00)(WSJ, 11/9/00,
p.A24)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Reserve_Act)
1934 Jan 31, President Roosevelt
signed the Farm Mortgage Refinancing Act.
(SSFC, 1/18/09, p.D6)
1934 Feb 1, Bob Shane was born. He
later became a singer in the group: The Kingston Trio: Tom Dooley,
M.T.A., Greenback Dollar, Where Have All the Flowers Gone.
(440 Int'l, 2/1/1999)
1934 Feb 2, The SF Police
Commission promulgated a set of regulations regarding dance permits to
Barbary Coast nightclubs. These included a prohibition against colored
and white people dancing together.
(SSFC, 2/1/09, DB p.50)
1934 Feb 2, Alfred Rosenberg was
made philosophical chief of the Nazi Party.
(HN, 2/2/99)
1934 Feb 5, Hank Aaron, American
hall of fame baseball player, homerun hitter, was born weighing 12.25
pounds. He broke Babe Ruth’s record in 1974. In 2010 Howard Bryant
authored “The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron.”
(SSFC, 5/23/10,
p.F6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Aaron)
1934 Feb 6, In France
anti-republican and Fascist forces seized upon the Stavisky scandal and
instigated anti-government demonstrations, culminating in the February
6, 1934 riot in front of the Chamber of Deputies in which 15 were
killed. [see Stavisky: Dec, 1933]
(HNQ, 4/20/99)
1934 Feb 7, 1st contract for TVA
power was in Tupelo, Miss.
(MC, 2/7/02)
1934 Feb 7, Kathleen Norris, a SF
Bay Area novelist based in Palo Alto, summed up a trip to Germany
saying Hitler has virtually solved problems of unemployment and
poverty. She said the leader was idolized everywhere as the people’s
rescuer.
(SSFC, 2/1/09, p.50)
1934 Feb 10, An Admiral Byrd
souvenir stamp sheet was issued, NYC. It was the 1st unperforated
ungummed US stamp.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1934 Feb 10, A Jewish immigrant
ship 1st broke the English blockade in Palestine.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1934 Feb 11, Mary Quant, fashion
designer (Chelsea Look, Mod Look), was born in Kent, England.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1934 Feb 13, George Segal, actor,
banjo player (Carbon Copy, Fun with Dick and Jane), was born.
(MC, 2/13/02)
1934 Feb 15, U.S. Congress passed
the Civil Works Emergency Relief Act, allotting new funds for Federal
Emergency Relief Administration.
(HN, 2/15/98)
1934 Feb 16, Thousands of
Socialists battled Communists at a rally in New York’s Madison Square
Garden.
(HN, 2/16/98)
1934 Feb 17, 1st high school auto
driving course was offered by State College, Penn.
(MC, 2/17/02)
1934 Feb 18, Aldo Ceccato,
conductor (Detroit Symph Orch 1973-77), was born in Milan, Italy.
(MC, 2/18/02)
1934 Feb 18, Audre Lord, poet, was
born.
(AP, 2/18/01)
1934 Feb 20, The opera "Four
Saints in Three Acts" by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson premiered
and became the longest running opera in Broadway history. It was
centered on St. Teresa of Avila and St. Ignatius and ran to 4 acts that
included 30 saints. It has been called "a surrealist American folk
opera." In 1997 Anthony Tommasini wrote Virgil’s biography: "Virgil
Thompson: Composer on the Aisle." In 1999 Steven Watson authored
"Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the
Mainstreaming of American Modernism.
(WSJ, 2/1/96, p.A-16)(WSJ, 7/16/96, p.A9)(BS,
5/3/98, p.13E)(WSJ, 3/10/99, p.A20)(SFEC, 3/28/99, BR p.2)(MC, 2/20/02)
1934 Feb 20, In San Francisco a
fire destroyed the recently opened Anchor Brewing Co. at 1610 Harrison
St. The plant specialized in steam beer for which SF was once
famous.
(SSFC, 2/15/09, DB p.50)
1934 Feb 21, Nicaraguan patriot
Augusto Cesar Sandino was assassinated by National Guard.
(MC, 2/21/02)
1934 Feb 22, George "Sparky"
Anderson, baseball manager (Reds, Tigers), was born in SD.
(MC, 2/22/02)
1934 Feb 22, The romantic comedy
"It Happened One Night," starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert,
opened at New York's Radio City Music Hall.
(AP, 2/22/00)
1934 Feb 23, Edward William Elgar
(76), English composer (Coronation Ode), died.
(MC, 2/23/02)
1934 Feb 24, Renata Scotto,
soprano (Violetta, La Traviata), was born in Savona, Italy.
(MC, 2/24/02)
1934 Feb 27, Ralph Nader, consumer
advocate, was born. He was Connecticut lawyer who invented the
automobile safety movement. His 1965 book "Unsafe at Any Speed"
characterized the Chevrolet Corvair as unsafe and pushed for a
congressional investigation.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)(HN, 2/27/01)
1934 Feb 27, Compania de Cementos
Argos was founded in Medellin, Colombia. In 1936, the factory began
production and it issued its first dividend in 1938.
(http://tinyurl.com/5rdhj2)
1934 Mar 1, Primo Carnera beat
Tommy Loughran in 15 for heavyweight boxing title.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1934 Mar 1, Henry Pu Yi was
crowned emperor Kang Teh of Manchuria.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1934 Mar 2, Doug Watkins jazz
musician (bass: Pepper-Knepper Quintet, Hank Mobley Quartet, Horace
Silver and the Jazz Messengers), was born.
(HC, Internet, 2/3/98)
1934 Mar 2, Union Pacific tested a
light-weight high-speed passenger train in Omaha.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1934 Mar 3, It was reported that
Alf Haraldsen had found some 150 pounds of ambergris on the shore of
Bolinas, Ca. The material, formed in the intestines of whales and used
in the manufacture of perfume, was estimated to be worth $75,000.
(SSFC, 3/1/09, DB p.50)
1934 Mar 3, John Dillinger broke
out of jail using a wooden pistol in Crown Point, Indiana.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1934 Mar 4, Easter Cross on Mount
Davidson, San Francisco, was dedicated.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1934 Mar 5, Mother-in-law's day
was 1st celebrated in Amarillo, Tx.
(MC, 3/5/02)
1934 Mar 8, It was reported that
workmen excavating for the SF Federal Building unearthed the skeletal
remains of 3 SF settlers and several gold and silver coins near the
corner of McAllister and Hyde streets. Over 20 graves were uncovered
during the course of the excavation.
(SSFC, 3/8/09, DB p.45)
1934 Mar 8, Edwin Hubble photo
showed as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars.
(MC, 3/8/02)
1934 Mar 9, Uri Gregarin (Yuri
Gagarin), first man to orbit the Earth, was born.
(HN, 3/9/99)
1934 Mar 12, Josip Broz (Tito of
Yugoslavia) was freed from jail.
(MC, 3/12/02)
1934 Mar 14, Eugene Cerna,
American Astronaut who was the last man on the moon, was born.
(HN, 3/14/00)
1934 Mar 15, Henry Ford restored
the $5 a day wage.
(HN, 3/15/98)
1934 Mar 17, Thousands of blacks
battled the police in New York in protest of the Scottsboro trial.
(HN, 3/17/98)
1934 Mar 17, The Rome Protocols
allied Hungary with Italy, Austria and Germany.
(WUD, 1994, p.1682)
1934 Mar 20, San Francisco Mayor
Willie Brown was born.
(SFEC, 1/5/97, p.A10)
1934 Mar 20, Test of practical
radar apparatus was made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Germany.
(MC, 3/20/02)
1934 Mar 22, Orrin Hatch, U.S.
senator from Utah, was born.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1934 Mar 22, Philippine
independence, granted by the US, was guaranteed to begin in 1945.
(WUD, 1994, p.1682)
1934 Mar 24, President Roosevelt
signed a bill granting future independence to the Philippines.
(AP, 3/23/97)
1934 Mar 25, Gloria Steinem,
political activist, editor, was born.
(HN, 3/25/01)
1934 Mar 26, Alan Arkin, actor
(Catch 22, In-Laws, Simon, Wait Until Dark), was born in NYC.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1934 Mar 26, Driving tests were
introduced in Britain.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1934 Mar 26, Switzerland banned
all slanderous criticism of state institutions in the press and
threatened the suspension of publications if the ban was not heeded.
(HN, 3/25/98)
1934 Mar, In SF Michael R.
Catalano, underworld figure, was murdered.
(SSFC, 3/15/09, DB p.50)
1934 Apr 1, Two Texas Highway
Patrol officers, E.B. Wheeler (26) and H.D. Murphy (24), were killed by
Henry Methvin, a gang member of Bonnie and Clyde, as they approached
the gang’s car near Grapevine, Texas.
(ON, 7/02, p.2)(SFC, 8/13/96, p.A3)(WSJ, 1/26/08,
p.A13)
1934 Apr 1, India’s Reserve Bank
of India was established.
(Econ, 4/11/09, p.76)
1934 Apr 3, Jane van
Lawick-Goodall, ethologist (studied African chimps, 1974 Walker Prize),
was born in London, England. She was a British anthropologist, known
for her work with African chimpanzees. In 2000 her autobiography
"Africa in My Blood: An Autobiography in Letters, The Early Years,
1934-1966," was edited by Dale Peterson.
(HN, 3/4/99)(SFEC, 6/18/00, BR p.6)(SC, 3/4/02)(MC,
4/3/02)
1934 Apr 6, 418 Lutheran ministers
were arrested in Germany.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1934 Apr 7, In India, Mahatma
Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience.
(MC, 4/7/02)
1934 Apr 10, David Halberstam, New
York Times correspondent, author, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1964, was
born.
(HN, 4/10/01)
1934 Apr 11, Richard A. Garland,
artist, photographer, was born.
(MC, 4/11/02)
1934 Apr 12, The
F. Scott Fitzgerald novel "Tender Is the Night" was first published by
Scribner's in New York. It had been serialized in Scribner's Magazine.
(AP, 4/12/07)
1934 Apr 12, In New Hampshire a
weather station on Mount Washington recorded a record wind gust of 231
mph before the anemometer broke.
(SSFC, 4/12/09, p.C10)
1934 Apr 13, Some 4.7 million US
families were report to be receiving welfare payments.
(MC, 4/13/02)
1934 Apr 18, The 1st laundromat,
called a "Washateria," opened in Fort Worth, Tx.
(AP, 4/18/07)
1934 Apr 18, Hitler named Joachim
von Ribbentrop, ambassador for disarmament.
(MC, 4/18/02)
1934 Apr 19, Shirley Temple
appeared in her first movie.
(HN, 4/19/97)
1934 Apr 21, Moe Berg, Senators
catcher (and later US spy), played an AL record 117th consecutive,
errorless game.
(MC, 4/21/02)
1934 Apr 24, Shirley MacLaine,
actress, mystic (Irma la Douce), was born in Richmond, Va.
(MC, 4/24/02)
1934 Apr 25, Denny "Scott" Miller,
actor (Wagon Train), was born in Bloomington, Ind.
(SS, 4/25/02)
1934 Apr 28, FDR signed a Home
Owners Loan Act.
(MC, 4/28/02)
1934 Apr, An earthquake shook
western Honduras.
(Nat. Hist., 4/96, p.25)
1934 May 1, The Philippine
legislature accepted a U.S. proposal for independence.
(HN, 5/1/98)
1934 May 2, Nazi Germany began
"People's court."
(MC, 5/2/02)
1934 May 2, In Germany a
Chancellery meeting took place between Adolph Hitler and executives of
General Motors Corp. and its German division (Opel). Opel quickly
became an essential element in German rearmament. Over the next 4 years
GM’s workforce in Germany grew from 17,000 to 27,000.
(SSFC, 1/7/07, p.E6)
1934 May 7, A Pulitzer prize was
awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White).
(MC, 5/7/02)
1934 May 7, World's largest pearl
(6.4 kg) was found at Palawan, Philippines.
(MC, 5/7/02)
1934 May 9, Alan Bennett,
playwright, actor (Secret Policeman's Other Ball, Beyond the Fringe),
was born in England.
(MC, 5/9/02)
1934 May 9, The San Francisco
waterfront strike began. The Int’l. Longshoremen’s Association (ILA),
headed by Australian immigrant Harry Bridges, shut down seaports in
Washington, Oregon and California for 3 months. Union workers went on
strike for a 6 hour day and a hiring hall to replace the company
operated Blue Book Union on the waterfront. Strike breakers were housed
in ships to avoid getting beat up by the dock workers. In 1996 David F.
Selvin published "A Terrible Anger: The 1934 Waterfront and General
Strikes in San Francisco." [see Jul 5]
(SFEC, 12/15/96, BR p.5)(SFEM, 3/2/97, p.21)(SFC,
8/4/97, p.E5)(SFEC, 5/2/99, Z1 p.4)(SFC, 10/4/02, p.A17)
1934 May 10, The US Revenue Act
required that anyone filing a federal tax return also complete a pink
form with individual tax information that became public information. It
was repealed in June, 1935.
(WSJ, 4/3/06, p.B1)(http://tinyurl.com/pmac7)
1934 May 12, "Cocktails For Two"
by Duke Ellington hit #1.
(MC, 5/12/02)
1934 May 13, A great dustbowl
storm occurred. [see Apr 14, 1935]
(SS, Internet, 5/13/97)
1934 May 13, C. Jackson discovered
asteroid #1320, Impala.
(SS, Internet, 5/13/97)
1934 May 15, US Dept. of Justice
offered $25,000 reward for John Dillinger, dead or alive.
(MC, 5/15/02)
1934 May 18, The Academy Award was
1st called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky).
(SC, 5/18/02)
1934 May 18, Congress approved the
"Lindbergh Act", which made kidnapping a capital offense.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1934 May 18, TWA began commercial
service.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1934 May 19, James Lehrer,
broadcast journalist, was born in Wichita, Ks.
(HN, 5/19/01)
1934 May 23, Robert A. Moog,
electrical engineer, creator of the Moog synthesizer, was born.
(HN, 5/23/01)
1934 May 23, Wallace Carothers
manufactured the 1st nylon, polymer 66.
(MC, 5/23/02)
1934 May 23, Bonnie Parker (23)
and Clyde Barrow (24) were shot some 4 dozen times early in the morning
in a police ambush by Texas Rangers as they were driving a stolen Ford
Deluxe along a road in Bienville Parish, near Sailes, La. This ended
the most spectacular manhunt seen in America up to that time. The pair
had spent the previous 2 years killing and robbing banks in the
Midwest. Bonnie Parker was 19 and Clyde Barrow was 21 when they met in
Dallas in 1930. By the time the Barrow gang's crime spree ended four
years later, Bonnie, Clyde, Clyde's brother Buck and Buck's wife had
terrorized the Southwest and Midwest and were believed to have
committed 13 murders. In 1997 Clyde’s bullet-ridden shirt was auctioned
off to a Nevada casino for $85,000. His largest theft was estimated at
$4,000. In 1979 Ted Hinton and Larry Grove authored "Ambush: The Real
Story of Bonnie and Clyde." In 2009 Jeff Guinn authored “Go Down
Together: the True Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde.”
(SFC, 4/3/97, p.A13)(SFC, 4/15/97, p.A13)(AP,
5/23/97)(HN, 5/23/02)(ON, 7/02, p.3)(WSJ, 3/10/09, p.A13)
1934 May 25, David J. Burke,
writer, was born in Liverpool, England.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1934 May 25, Ron Nesson, press
secretary (Gerald Ford), was born.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1934 May 25, Béla
Bartòk's "Enchanted Deer" premiered.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1934 May 25, Gustav Theodore Holst
(59), English composer (Ode to Death), died.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1934 May 26, Century of Progress
Exposition reopened in Chicago.
(MC, 5/26/02)
1934 May 27, Harlan [Jay] Ellison,
US sci-fi author (7 Hugos, Doomsman, Babylon 5), was born.
(MC, 5/27/02)
1934 May 28, The Dionne
quintuplets—Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne—were born to
Elzire Dionne at the family farm in Ontario, Canada. The were children
removed from their parents by the Ontario government and put on public
display, before paying customers, at a theme-like-park called
Quintland. In 1998 3 surviving sisters accepted a $2.8 million
settlement from the Ontario government.
(TMC, 1994, p.1934)(AP, 5/28/97)
1934 May 28, In San Francisco
nearly 1,000 longshoremen clashed with police at Pier 18 on the 20th
day of their strike. Alphonse Metzgar was shot in the back with light
buckshot.
(SSFC, 5/24/09, DB p.39)
1934 May 29, Eugenie Besserer
(65), actress (Anna Christie, Madame X), died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1934 May 29, Heihachiro Tojo,
Japanese Admiral (Russian-Japanese War), died.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1934 May, Stalin’s regime
officially set up the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan.
(SFEC, 5/31/98, p.7)
1934 Jun 2, Sunny Jim Rolph
(b.1869), former mayor of SF (1912-1931) and Governor of California
(1931-1934), died. He lived at his home at 288 San Jose Ave. in the
Mission throughout his life.
(SFEC, 4/25/99, Z1 p.5)(SSFC, 5/31/09, DB p.50)
1934 Jun 3, Dr. Frederick Banting,
co-discoverer of insulin, was knighted.
(MC, 6/3/02)
1934 Jun 5, Bill Moyers, American
broadcast journalist, was born. He served as President Lyndon B.
Johnson’s press secretary. He also made numerous documentaries for the
Public Broadcasting System.
(HN, 6/5/99)
1934 Jun 6, US Congress created
the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This was accompanied by
requirements for public companies to disclose information.
(AP, 6/6/97)(WSJ, 3/22/04, p.A12)
1934 Jun 7, The US Corporate
Bankruptcy Act allowed corporations to reorganize.
(SSFC, 1/18/09, p.D6)
1934 Jun 9, Donald Duck made his
1st screen appearance ("The Wise Little Hen"). His distinctive quack
was voiced originally by Clarence Nash.
(MC, 6/9/02)
1934 Jun 11, The Disarmament
Conference in Geneva ended in failure.
(HN, 6/11/98)
1934 Jun 12, The US Farm Mortgage
Foreclosure Act allowed federal loans to farmers to recover property
lost to foreclosure.
(SSFC, 1/18/09, p.D6)
1934 Jun 19, The first movie of
the sun was taken.
(DTnet, 6/19/97)
1934 Jun 19, President Roosevelt
signed the US Communications Act. It established the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) to supervise radio, telegraph and
telephone communications.
(WSJ, 11/3/97, p.A20)(AP, 6/19/06)
1934 Jun 19, The US National
Archives and Records Administration was established under Pres.
Franklin Roosevelt.
(HN, 6/19/98)(WSJ, 12/29/05, p.B1)
1934 Jun 21, [James] Thorne Smith,
US fantasy author (Stray Lamb, Turnabout), died.
(MC, 6/21/02)
1934 Jun 22, San Francisco Police
Capt. Charles Goff voiced the sensational charge that carefully planned
communistic programs are being carried out in SF schools and churches.
(SSFC, 6/21/09, DB p.50)
1934 Jun 22, "Dr. Ing. h.c. F.
Porsche GmbH, Konstruktionen und Beratung für Motoren- und
Fahrzeugbau" received the go-ahead from the "Reichsverband der
Automobilindustrie (RDA)" (the Association of the German Reich of the
Automotive Industry) to construct and build the Volkswagen. Hitler had
asked Ferdinand Porsche Sr., owner of a consulting and design firm, to
build a "people’s car," from which resulted the Volkswagen. Porsche
took the design from the Tatra T97 of Czechoslovakia’s Hans and Erich
Ledwinka.
(http://tinyurl.com/22n6kb6)(SFC, 3/28/98,
p.B12)(Econ, 6/28/08, p.20)
1934 Jun 23, Italy gained the
right to colonize Albania after defeating the country.
(HN, 6/23/98)
1934 Jun 26, The Federal Credit
Union Act was passed.
(HFA, ‘96, p.32)
1934 Jun 27, Anna Moffo, soprano
(Lucia, Traviata), was born in Wayne, Penn.
(MC, 6/27/02)
1934 Jun 27, The US Federal
Savings & Loan Association created. [see Jun 26]
(SC, 6/27/02)
1934 Jun 28, President Roosevelt
signed into law the National Housing Act, which established the Federal
Housing Administration.
(AP, 6/28/97)
1934 Jun 28, Hitler flew to Essen
(Night of Long Knifes) where a massive purge of SA (storm troopers) was
carried out to placate the Army and the high command. [see Jun 30]
(MC, 6/28/02)
1934 Jun 30, Harry Blackstone
(d.5/14/1997), magician, was born in Three Rivers, Mich.
(SFC, 5/15/97, p.A26)
1934 Jun 30, In San Francisco a
group of men with sledgehammers and crowbars attacked the headquarters
of the Western Worker, a Communist Party publication, near the Civic
Center Plaza. They fled when men associated with the publication rushed
out from a back room.
(SSFC, 6/28/09, DB p.50)
1934 Jun 30, Adolf Hitler began
his "blood purge" of political and military leaders in Germany. Among
those killed was one-time Hitler ally Ernst Roehm (46), gay leader of
the Nazi stormtroopers. Hitler personally confronted Rohm in a jail
cell and left a single shot pistol in the cell. Ten minutes later, Rohm
had killed himself. Hitler purged the Nazi Party by destroying the SA
and bringing to power the SS in the "Night of the Long Knives." Also
killed were Gregor Strasser (42), German pharmacist, Nazi leader and
Karl Ernst, German SA-leader.
(AP, 6/30/97)(HN, 6/30/98)(MC, 6/30/02)
1934 Jun, Sen. Norris of Nebraska
declared that Samuel L. Insull, head of recently bankrupt Middle West
Utilities, "was careful to regulate the regulator." It took 7 years to
fully unravel the financial structure of MWU.
(WSJ, 2/4/02, p.A1)
1934 Jul 1, Sydney Pollack, film
director (Tootsie, Presumed Innocent, The Firm, Out of Africa), was
born in Lafayette, Indiana.
(www.nndb.com/people/772/000023703/)
1934 Jul 1, Jamie Farr (Jameel
Farah) (actor: M*A*S*H, The Blackboard Jungle, Scrooged, Cannonball
Run, With Six You Get Egg Roll), was born.
(MC, 7/1/02)
1934 Jul 1, The 1st x-ray photo of
entire body was made in Rochester, NY.
(MC, 7/1/02)
1934 Jul
4, Boxer Joe Louis won his first professional fight, knocking out Jack
Kracken in the first round in Chicago. He won 12 fights that year, all
in Chicago, 10 by knockout.
(HN,
7/4/98)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Louis#Early_life_and_career)
1934 Jul 4, Jordanians revolted in
Amsterdam after reduction in employment.
(Maggio, 98)
1934 Jul 4, "Madame" Marie
Curie-Sklodovska, Polish-born French chemist and Nobel Prize winner,
died in Paris of leukemia caused by her long exposure to radiation. In
1937 Eve Curie authored "Madame Curie, a Biography." In 2004 Barbara
Goldsmith authored “Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie.”
(ON, 3/00,
p.2)(http://myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=madameCurie)(SSFC, 12/5/04,
p.E2)
1934 Jul 5, During the West Coast
maritime strike Mayor Angelo J. Rossi, a former florist, unleashed the
city’s violently anti-union police department on the workers. 33 people
were shot with 2 men killed in what came to be called "Bloody
Thursday." Police fired into a crowd of strikers at Steuart and Mission
streets and killed Howard S. Perry and Nickolas Bordoise. Another 109
strikers were wounded. Police had tried to escort scabs to the docks.
Civil liberties attorneys Ernest Besig (d.1998 at 94), and Chester
Williams were called in from New York. They founded a local American
Civil Liberties Union and sued SF and Oakland for failure to protect
striker’s First Amendment rights.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W31)(SFC, 11/21/98, p.C2)(SFC,
9/27/02, p.D11)(SSFC, 7/5/09, DB p.42)
1934 Jul 9, SS-Reichs Fuhrer
Heinrich Himmler assumed command of German Concentration Camps.
(MC, 7/9/02)
1934 Jul 11, President Roosevelt
became the first chief executive to travel through the Panama Canal
while in office.
(AP, 7/11/97)
1934 Jul 12, Van Cliburn, American
concert pianist, was born.
(HN, 7/12/01)
1934 Jul 13, Wole Soyinka, Nobel
Prize-winning Nigerian playwright, was born.
(HN, 7/13/01)
1934 Jul 16, The nation’s 1st
general strike was called in San Francisco in response to violence and
disregard of worker’s rights in the waterfront strike. Some 140,000
workers walked off their jobs. It collapsed after 4 days. Seven men
were killed and thousands were injured. The general strike ended after
4 days and went into arbitration. In the fall arbitrators gave the
union a hiring hall, a 6-hour day and a small wage increase. [see May
9, Jul 5]
(SFEC, 12/15/96, BR p.5)(SFEC, 5/2/99, Z1 p.4)(SFC,
9/27/02, p.D11)(PCh, 1992, p.826)
1934 Jul 17, Donald Sutherland,
actor (M*A*S*H, Body Snatchers), was born in St John, NB.
(MC, 7/17/02)
1934 Jul 18, Cotton-mill workers
in the US south went on strike. The UTW locals in the northern part of
Alabama launched a strike in Huntsville, Alabama, then spread to
Florence, Anniston, Gadsden, and Birmingham. While the strike was
popular, it was also ineffective: many employers welcomed it as a means
of cutting their expenses, since they had warehouses full of unsold
goods. A documentary called the "Uprising of ‘34" was made in 1995 and
scheduled for PBS on 6/27/95.
(WSJ, 6/13/95,
p.A-1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_workers_strike_%281934%29)
1934 Jul 22, John Dillinger
(b.1903) was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph
Theater. FBI agent Murray Faulkner, brother of William Faulkner, helped
in the killing. In 1924 Dillinger was sent to the Indiana State
Reformatory for holding up a grocer, and was later transferred to the
Michigan City, Indiana, State Prison, where he hatched a plan for a
mass breakout with a group of other infamous convicts. When Dillinger
was paroled in 1933, he robbed several banks to provide money for his
friends’ escape. He was caught in Ohio, but by then his friends had
escaped and they helped him break out. Dillinger’s supposed death
remains mysterious. Anna Sage, the "Lady in Red," had agreed to deliver
Dillinger to the FBI if they would stop deportation proceedings against
her. The setup went as planned, and the FBI shot the man with Anna
Sage. Dillinger was famous for the size of his penis, which was
"reportedly" severed and shown at exclusive viewings.
(AP, 7/22/97)(SFC,12/26/97, p.C22)(HNPD,
7/22/98)(HN, 7/22/99)
1934 Jul 25, There was a Nazi coup
in Vienna. Austrian Premier Engelbert Dollfus was shot and killed by
Nazis. Hitler murdered Austria’s Chancellor Dollfus.
(WUD, 1994, p.424,1682)(TMC, 1994, p.1934)(HN,
7/25/98)
1934 Jul 26, Winsor McCay
(b.1871), cartoonist, died. His “Little Nemo In Slumberland” was
launched by the NY Herald in 1905. An art book reproducing over 100 of
his best pages in full broadsheet was published in 2005.
(SFC, 10/22/05, p.E1)(www.who2.com/winsormccay.html)
1934 Jul 28, Jacques D'Amboise,
dancer, educator (NYC Ballet Company), was born.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1934 Jul 28, 118° F (48°
C) at Orofino, Idaho was a state record.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1934 Jul 29, The West Coast
longshoremen’s strike came to an end on its 82nd day when the dock
workers’ leaders accepted conditions proposed by the National
Longshoremen’s board, pending arbitration. Men returned to work on July
31.
(SSFC, 7/26/09, DB
p.42)(www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/STRIKES!/exh.html)
1934 Jul 30, Kurt von Schuschnigg
replaced Dollfus as Premier of Austria until the Nazis seized the
government in 1938. Schuschnigg was then interned in a concentration
camp.
(WUD, 1994, p.424,1682)
1934 Jul, The Hollywood Motion
Picture Production Code, formalized in 1930, went into effect.
Hollywood studios began enforcing the 1930 Hays Code on morals in films.
(SFEC, 5/24/98, DB p.53)(SFEC, 12/12/99, BR p.3)(AH,
2/05, p.47)
1934 Aug 2, The 1st airplane train
towed 3 mail gliders behind it.
(MC, 8/2/02)
1934 Aug 2, Pres. Paul von
Hindenburg of Germany died. Within hours Adolf Hitler announced a law,
dated the previous day, that made him Reichsfuhrer, an office that
combined the duties of president and chancellor.
(www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/becomes.htm)
1934 Aug 7, the U.S. Court of
Appeals upheld a lower court ruling striking down the government’s
attempt to ban the controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses."
(AP, 8/7/97)
1934 Aug 11, The US government
opened a maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco
Bay and the first federal prisoners arrived. From the time it opened to
1937 there was no talking by prisoners allowed. Federal convicts from
McNeil Island Prison in Washington joined a small number of military
prisoners, left over from the island‘s time as a US Army prison. The
facility had been used as a military prison since 1859, but was
redesigned to be a high-security penitentiary for the "most dangerous"
prisoners. The prison closed in 1963.
(AP, 8/11/97)(SFEC, 3/8/98, p.W30)(HNQ,
7/10/00)(OAH, 2/05, p.A6)
1934 Aug 12, Augustus E. Thomas
(b.1857), American Playwright, died. He is often called the first
playwright to deal in thoroughly American themes.
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0858501/)
1934 Aug 13, The satirical comic
strip "Li’l Abner," created by Al Capp, made its debut.
(AP, 8/13/97)
1934 Aug 13, United Aircraft was
removed from the DJIA. National Distillers and Chemical Corp. was added.
(WSJ, 5/28/96, p. R-45)(WSJ, 4/8/04, p.C4)
1934 Aug 16, US ended its
occupation of Haiti (begun in 1915).
(MC, 8/16/02)
1934 Aug 16, US explorer William
Beebe descended 3,028' (923 m) in Bathysphere.
(MC, 8/16/02)
1934 Aug 18, Vincent Bugliosi,
attorney, author (Helter-Skelter), was born in Hibbing, Minn.
(MC, 8/18/02)
1934 Aug 19, A plebiscite in
Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler as
Fuhrer. 38 million Germans voted to make Adolf Hitler the official
successor to President von Hindenburg.
(AP, 8/19/97)(HN, 8/19/00)
1934 Aug 20, Gangster Al Capone
and 42 other prisoners traveled in steel barred railroad coaches to
Alcatraz after being transferred the federal penitentiary in Atlanta,
Ga.
(SSFC, 8/9/09, DB p.46)
1934 Aug 22, H. Norman
Schwarzkopf, commander of the coalition forces during the Persian Gulf
War (1991), was born in Trenton, NJ.
(HN, 8/22/98)(MC, 8/22/02)
1934 Aug 23, Sonny (Christian)
Jurgensen, professional football player and sports announcer, was born
in North Carolina.
(HN, 8/23/00)
1934 Aug 24, In Philadelphia, Pa.,
Philo T. Farnsworth (28), a San Francisco scientist, produced a
televised picture of the moon, the first recorded use of television in
astronomy.
(SSFC, 8/16/09, p.46)
1934 Aug 27, Arlen, Ira Gershwin
& Harburg musical premiered in NYC.
(MC, 8/27/02)
1934 Sep 3, Tunisia began its move
for independence.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1934 Sep 7-8, The luxury liner
"Morro Castle," enroute from Havana to NYC, caught fire and ran aground
at Asbury Park, NJ. 134 people were killed. [see Sep 8]
(www.jerseyboardwalk.com/morro.htm)
1934 Sep 8, Peter Maxwell Davies,
composer (Prolation, Taverner), was born in Manchester, England.
(MC, 9/8/01)
1934 Sep 8, 134 people lost their
lives in a fire aboard the liner Morro Castle off the New Jersey coast.
The crew of the cruise ship let a small blaze get out of control and
commandeered most of the spots in the lifeboats. Only 15 passengers
survived as compared to 119 crew. 124 people died. The event was part
of a 1999 TV documentary "Escape, Because Accident Happen" for a NOVA
miniseries. [see Sep 7]
(AP, 9/8/97)(WSJ, 2/8/99, p.A21)
1934 Sep 9, Sonia Sanchez, poet,
was born in Birmingham, Alabama.
(HN, 9/9/00)
1934 Sep 9, G. Kaufman and M.
Hart's "Merrily We Roll Along," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1934 Sep 10, Charles Kuralt (d.Jul
4, 1997), TV journalist, was born in Wilmington, NC. He was known for
his popular "On the Road" television program.
(SFC, 7/5/97, p.A5)(HN, 9/10/00)
1934 Sep 12, Estonia, Latvia &
Lithuania signed the Baltic Entente in Geneva against the USSR.
(LC, 1998, p.24)(MC, 9/12/01)
1934 Sep 13, Judge Landis sold the
World Series broadcast rights to Ford for $100,000.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1934 Sep 14, Kate Millet, feminist
writer, was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her work included “Sexual
Politics.”
(HN, 9/14/00)(www.infoplease.com)
1934 Sep 16, Anti-Nazi Lutherans
staged a protest in Munich.
(HN, 9/16/98)
1934 Sep 17, RCA Victor released
1st 33 1/3 rpm recording (Beethoven's 5th).
(MC, 9/17/01)
1934 Sep 18, The League of Nations
admitted the Soviet Union. Joseph Avenol, secretary-general of the
League of Nations, sold out the organization he had sworn to uphold.
(WUD, 1994, p.424,1682)(HN, 9/18/98)
1934 Sep 19, Brian Epstein, rock
manager (Beatles), was born.
(MC, 9/19/01)
1934 Sep 19, Bruno Hauptmann was
arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap-murder of the
Lindbergh infant. [see Sep 20]
(AP, 9/19/97)
1934 Sep 20, Sophia Loren, actress
(Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid), was born in Rome.
(MC, 9/20/01)
1934 Sep 20, Bruno Hauptmann was
arrested for the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby. [see Sep
19]
(HN, 9/20/98)
1934 Sep 21, A typhoon struck
Honshu Island, Japan, and killed 4,000.
(MC, 9/21/01)
1934 Sep 24, Babe Ruth made his
farewell appearance as a regular player with the New York Yankees in a
game against the Boston Red Sox. The Sox won, 5-0.
(AP, 9/24/04)
1934 Sep 26, The British liner
Queen Mary was launched. [see May 27, 1936]
(MC, 9/26/01)
1934 Sep 28, Brigitte Bardot,
French film actress, sex kitten (And God Created Women), was born in
Paris.
(HN, 9/28/00)(MC, 9/28/01)
1934 Sep 29, In Vallejo, Ca., the
body of Joe Soon (40), a member of the Hop Sing tong, was found dead in
the Vallejo business district with a hatchet wound between the eyes and
4 bullets in his torso. The murderers were believed to be hatchetmen
from San Francisco’s Chinatown.
(SSFC, 9/27/09, p.50)
1934 Oct 1, Adolph Hitler expanded
the German army and navy and created an air force, violating Treaty of
Versailles.
(MC, 10/1/01)
1934 Oct 7, [Everett] Leroi Jones
(Imamu Amiri Baraka), playwright, was born.
(HN, 10/7/00)(MC, 10/7/01)
1934 Oct 7, Ulrike Meinhof, German
Red Army member, was born.
(MC, 10/7/01)
1934 Oct 8, Bruno Hauptmann, a
carpenter and illegal alien, was indicted for murder in the death of
the infant son of Charles A. Lindbergh. He had been caught with $14,000
of the Lindbergh baby ransom money.
(WSJ, 9/9/96, p.A16)(AP, 10/8/97)
1934 Oct 9, In Marseilles, a
Macedonian revolutionary associated with Croat terrorists in Hungary
assassinated King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister
Louis Barthou. The two had been on a tour of European capitals in quest
of an alliance against Nazi Germany. The assassinations brought the
threat of war between Yugoslavia and Hungary, but confrontation was
prevented by the League of Nations. 2 newsreel cameramen captured the
assassination on film
(HN, 10/9/98)(WSJ, 5/20/99, p.A8)
1934 Oct 12, In San Francisco the
new Coit Tower in Pioneer Park on Telegraph Hill opened to the public.
At least 8 frescoes, painted by artists employed by the WPA, were
washed out and eliminated because they were “architecturally
inharmonious.”
(SSFC, 10/4/09, p.50)
1934 Oct 13, Nana Mouskouri, Greek
singer (Try to Remember), was born in Crete.
(MC, 10/13/01)
1934 Oct 16, Mao Tse-tung decided
to abandon his base in Kiangsi due to attacks from Chiang Kai-shek's
Nationalists. With his pregnant wife and about 30,000 Red Army troops,
he set out on the "Long March." In late 1935, with 8,000 survivors, he
reached Hanoi in northwest China, and established Chinese Communist
headquarters. In 2006 Andrew McEwen and Ed Jocelyn authored “The Long
March: The Story Behind the Legendary Journey That Made Mao’s China.”
Also in 2006 Sun Shuyun authored “The Long March.”
(HN, 10/16/98)(www.kimsoft.com/korea/eyewit03.htm)
1934 Oct 17, "The Aldrich Family"
premiered on radio.
(MC, 10/17/01)
1934 Oct 17, "Handsome" Harry
Pierpont, bank robber, was executed in the electric chair in Columbus,
Ohio, for the murder of Sheriff Jesse Sarber.
(Internet)
1934 Oct 20, Michael Dunn, actor
(House of the Damned, Ship of Fools), was born in Shattuck, Ok.
(MC, 10/20/01)
1934 Oct 20, An all-star team led
by Babe Ruth and Connie Mack sailed to Hawaii and Japan.
(MC, 10/20/01)
1934 Oct 20, Richard Strauss
completed his opera "Die Schweigsame Frau."
(MC, 10/20/01)
1934 Oct 22, Donald McIntyre,
Bass-Baritone (Wotan, Hans Sachs), was born in Auckland, NZ.
(MC, 10/22/01)
1934 Oct 22, Bank robber Charles
"Pretty Boy" Floyd was shot to death by federal agents at a farm in
East Liverpool, Ohio.
(AP, 10/22/97)
1934 Oct 23, Jean Piccard and
Jeanette Ridlen attained a record balloon height of 17,341m.
(MC, 10/23/01)
1934 Oct 24, Mohandas Karamchand
Gandhi, called Mahatma or "Great Soul," resigned from Congress in India.
(HN, 10/24/98)
1934 Oct 27, Frederick Barclay,
British hotel magnate and multi-millionaire, was born.
(MC, 10/27/01)
1934 Oct 28, In Redwood City, Ca.,
a crowd of 20,000 people gathered at the temporary Pulgas Water Temple
to witness the first Sierra water begin to empty into Crystal Springs
Lake. The Pulgas Water Temple near the Crystal Springs Reservoir was
modeled after the Sunol Water Temple designed by Willis Polk. This
marked the end of the 20-year SF water project led by engineer Michael
O'Shaugnessy (d.10/18/34) [see Oct 12].
(SFC, 12/19/96, p.A21)(SFC, 9/27/97, p.A24)(Ind,
3/11/00, p.5A)
1934 Nov 1, Jeanette MacDonald
arrived in San Francisco for the upcoming premier of “The Merry Widow,”
in which she co-starred with Maurice Chevalier.
(SSFC, 11/1/09, DB p.42)(TVM, 1977, p.470)y
1934 Nov 2, In San Francisco a
fight for control of the beer market expanded as brewers matched the
prices of Humboldt Brewery at $1 a case of 24 pints.
(SSFC, 11/1/09, DB p.42)
1934 Nov 2, Babe Ruth began his
tour of Tokyo, Japan.
(MC, 11/2/01)
1934 Nov 4, The new $400,000,
6,500-seat, Bay Meadows horse racing track opened in San Mateo, Ca.,
under the direction of Bill Kyne (d.1957). Gov. Frank Merriam
christened the one-mile track, which opened on the grounds of an old
airfield. Jockey George Burns rode 5 winners, three of them in a row.
The track featured the new $250,000 totalizer machine to display bets
and payoff. The last day of regular racing was May 11, 2008. A final
racing was scheduled for the 2008 county Fair, August 6-18.
(Ind, 5/13/00,5A)(SFC, 3/23/07, p.A1)(SFC, 5/10/08,
p.A4)
1934 Nov 6, The first Rotary club
in Lithuania, the Rotary club of Kaunas, was legally incorporated. It
received its charter on 5 May 1935 from the then District Governor of
Finland in the Kaunas Town Hall.
(http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~henkypnk/rotlithuania.html)
1934 Nov 9, Carl Sagan, American
astronomer and writer, was born. He was instrumental in robotic space
exploration and who made Cosmos, a documentary about the universe.
(HN, 11//99)
1934 Nov 12, Charles Manson, [No
Name Maddox], mass murderer, was born in Cincinnati, Oh.
(MC, 11/12/01)
1934 Nov 14, In San Francisco a
fire started when water backed up into the AJ Clark Trucking Co.
warehouse and penetrated hundreds of sacks of unslaked lime. 21 firemen
suffered burn injuries.
(SSFC, 11/15/09, DB p.46)
1934 Nov 16, Carl P.G. von Linde
(92), German physicist, died.
(MC, 11/16/01)
1934 Nov 17, Lyndon Baines Johnson
married Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as "Lady Bird," in San
Antonio, Texas.
(AP, 11/17/07)
1934 Nov 17, Victor J. Bergeron
(1903-1984), aka Trader Vic, opened Hinky Dink’s, a small food-and-beer
joint at 65th and San Pablo in Oakland, Ca. He expanded his business
and in 1951 opened Trader Vic’s in SF at 20 Cosmo Place.
(SSFC, 10/11/09, DB p.46)
1934 Nov 20, Lillian Hellman's
"Children's Hour," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 11/20/01)
1934 Nov 21, The Cole Porter
musical “Anything Goes,” starring Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney,
premiered at New York's Alvin Theatre.
(HN, 11/21/00)(AP, 11/21/04)
1934 Nov 21, A court ruled Gloria
Vanderbilt unfit for custody of her daughter.
(HN, 11/21/98)
1934 Nov 22, "Santa Claus Is
Comin' to Town" was 1st heard on Eddie Cantor's show.
(MC, 11/22/01)
1934 Nov 23, U.S. and Britain
agreed on a 5-5-3 naval ratio with both countries allowed to build five
million tons of naval ships while Japan can only build three; Japan
denounced the treaty.
(HN, 11/23/98)
1934 Nov 26, German theologian
Karl Barth surrendered to Nazis.
(MC, 11/26/01)
1934 Nov 27, "Baby Face" Nelson
(26), [Lester Gillis], gangster, shot by FBI.
(TMC, 1994, p.1934)(MC, 11/27/01)
1934 Nov 27, In Bolivia President
Salamanca was suddenly deposed by the Bolivian military.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Luis_Tejada_Sorzano)
1934 Nov 28, Churchill told
Premier Baldwin not to under estimate German air power.
(DTnet, 11/28/97)
1934 Nov 30, Lazaro Cardenas,
following July elections, began serving as PRI president (1934-1940) of
Mexico.
(SFEC, 5/2/99, p.A26)
1934 Dec 1, In Bolivia Jose Luis
Tejada Sorzano (1882-1938) was installed as president by the military.
He served to 1936 and was succeeded by David Toro.
(SFC, 4/25/09,
p.E1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Luis_Tejada_Sorzano)
1934 Dec 1, Sergei M. Kirov, a
collaborator of Josef Stalin, was assassinated in Leningrad, a
stronghold of opposition to Stalin. This resulted in a massive purge.
Kirov was succeeded by Andrei Zdhanov, who became the virtual dictator
of literary and artistic policies of the USSR.
(AP, 12/1/98)(SFC, 6/10/00, p.A12)
1934 Dec 2, The 5.08-m (200") Mt.
Palomar Observatory mirror was cast.
(MC, 12/2/01)
1934 Dec 5, Joan Didion, essayist
and novelist, was born. Her work includes "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"
and "Play it a it Lays."
(HN, 12/5/00)
1934 Dec 5, Italian and Ethiopian
troops clashed at the Ualual on disputed Somali-Ethiopian border.
(HN, 12/5/98)
1934 Dec 7, Wiley Post discovered
the jet stream.
(MC, 12/7/01)
1934 Dec 8, In China John and
Betty Stam, Christian missionaries, were beheaded by communist soldiers
in a village near Nanking.
(WSJ, 1/17/03, p.W13)
1934 Dec 9, Judi Dench, actress
(Henry V, Wetherby), was born in York, England.
(MC, 12/9/01)
1934 Dec 14, 1st streamlined steam
locomotive was introduced in Albany, NY.
(MC, 12/14/01)
1934 Dec 10, Harold C. Urey
(1893-1981), US chemist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for
his work with deuterium.
(http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1934/urey-bio.html)
1934 Dec 18, Woodrow Wilson.
Wilson, the 28th President, appeared on the largest note ever issued by
the United States. It was only printed between December 18, 1934 and
January 9, 1935 and used only for transactions between Federal Reserve
Banks. Salmon P. Chase, the U.S. Treasury Secretary under President
Lincoln, appeared on the $10,000 bill, James Madison on the $5,000 bill
and Grover Cleveland on the $1,000 bill. All of these bills ceased
being printed in 1946.
(HNQ, 11/7/99)
1934 Dec 20, California’s new
state liquor control law went into effect making it legal to sell hard
liquor by the drink in hotels, restaurants and clubs.
(SSFC, 12/20/09, DB p.46)
1934 Dec 27, The 1st youth US
hostel opened at Northfield, Mass.
(MC, 12/27/01)
1934 Dec 29, Federico Garcia
Lorca's "Yerma," premiered in Madrid.
(MC, 12/29/01)
1934 Dec 29, Japan renounced the
Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
(AP, 12/29/97)(HN, 12/29/98)
1934 Dec, Parker Brothers
purchased the game of Monopoly from George Darrow and rewrote the
rules. George Parker had rejected the 1st version of Monopoly submitted
by Darrow and cited 52 fundamental errors. In 2003 Philip E. Orbanes
authored "The Game Makers: The Story of the Parker Brothers, from
Tiddley winks to Trivial Pursuit."
(Econ, 11/22/03,
p.81)(www.adena.com/adena/mo/mo11.htm)
1934 Larry King, talk show host,
was born in Brooklyn as Lawrence Harvey Zeigler to Russian-Jewish
immigrants.
(WT-NWA, 7/01, p.43)
1934 The wife of Romanian PM
Gheorghe Tatarascu asked Constantin Brancusi to commemorate the
citizens of Targu Jiu, who died trying to hold back the WW I
Austro-German invasion. Brancusi agreed and created sculptures titled:
"Endless Column," "Gate of the Kiss" and "Table of Silence." The
97-foot Endless Column was taken down for restoration in 1996. A 2nd
restoration was completed in 2001.
(WSJ, 11/30/01, p.W12)
1934 Alberto Giacometti, sculptor,
created his bronze statue "The Invisible Object (Hands Holding the
Void."
(SFEC, 10/1/00, DB p.42)
1934 Salvadore Dali (1904-1989)
painted "The Persistence of Memory." It attracted worldwide attention
that led to his first one man show in New York. [2nd source says 1931]
Dali in this year pronounced: The only difference between me and a
madman is that I am not mad." He also painted "Cardinal, Cardinal!" and
"Atmospheric Skull Sodomizing a Grand Piano."
(SFEM, 1/25/98, p.30)(WSJ, 1/25/99, p.A16)
1934 Rene Magritte painted "The
Rape," in which an androgynous face sprouts breasts and pubic hair.
(SFC, 2/7/02, p.D12)
1934 The panel of the Ten Just
Judges on their way to venerate the Mystic Lamb by Jan and Hubert Van
Eyck was stolen from St. Baaf's Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium.
(SFEC, 11/21/99, p.T11)
1934 The comic stripe character
"Mandrake the Magician," created by Leon Falk (d.1999), first appeared.
From 1965 the character was drawn by Fred Fredericks. Falk created "The
Phantom" in 1936.
(SFC, 3/16/99, p.A17)
1934 Jerry Siegal and artist Jose
Shuster created "Superman," the Man of Steel, in Cleveland, Ohio.
(SFC, 6/2/96, p.T-11)
1934 Lillian Hellman wrote her
play "The Children's Hour."
(SFEC, 5/30/99, DB p.37)
1934 Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse
wrote "Anything Goes." It later became a Broadway show with lyric and
music by Cole Porter.
(SFC, 10/30/96, p.E3)
1934 James M. Cain authored "The
Postman Always Rings Twice." It became one of the most popular
"hard-boiled" crime novels ever written. It is said that Albert Camus
was so taken with the book that he used it as a model for "The
Stranger."
(iUniv. 7/1/00)(WSJ, 8/2/08, p.W8)
1934 William Henry Chamberlin, a
journalist, published "Russia's Iron Age," which chronicled the
depredations of Stalin.
(WSJ, 4/13/99, p.A16)
1934 David Dodd and Benjamin
Graham published their classic "Security Analysis."
(WSJ, 7/21/99, p.A20)
1934 Emma Goldman authored her
autobiography "Living My Life."
(ON, 4/00, p.5)
1934 Robert Graves authored “I,
Claudius.”
(SSFC, 4/22/07, p.P10)
1934 Dashiell Hammett
(1894-1961) authored “The Thin Man.”
(www.imdb.com/name/nm0358591/)(SFCM, 2/6/05, p.4)
1934 Janet Lewis wrote "The
Invasion," a historical novel on the interplay of French, English and
Indian cultures on the American frontier. [first source says it was
published in 1932]
(SFC, 12/5/98, p.C2)(SFEC, 12/6/98, p.C14)
1934 Prof. Charles Hartshorne
(d.2000 at 103) of the Univ. of Chicago authored "the Philosophy and
Psychology of Sensation." He became a proponent of "process theology"
and held that God is not an all-knowing commander of the universe but a
participant who is changed by it.
(SFC, 10/14/00, p.A24)
1934 Matthew Josephson authored
"The Robber Barons," a simplistic account of the 19th century American
entrepreneurs of industrial empires.
(WSJ, 9/10/98, p.A22)
1934 William Maxwell (1908-2000)
published his 1st novel: "Bright Center of Heaven." Maxwell went on to
become an editor for the New Yorker.
(SFC, 8/2/00, p.A24)
1934 Henry Miller’s novel "Tropic
of Cancer" was published by the French publisher Girodias.
(SFC, 7/7/96, BR p.6)
1934 William Saroyan (1908-1981),
Fresno, Ca., writer and painter, published his first book, a collection
of short stories that included “The Daring Young Man on the Flying
Trapeze.”
(SSFC, 10/11/09, DB p.46)
1934 Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966),
English writer, authored “Ninety-Two Days.” It was based on his 1932
travels in Brazil and British Guiana.
(WSJ, 11/24/07, p.W8)
1934 Nathanael West (1902-1940)
wrote his 3rd novel "A Cool Million."
(WSJ, 8/11/97, p.A12)
1934 George Orwell published his
1st novel “Burmese Days.” In 2005 Emma Larkin authored “Finding George
Orwell in Burma.”
(SFEC, 10/22/00, p.T9)(SSFC, 6/5/05, p.B3)
1934 Margaret Sanger wrote her
"Code to Stop the Overproduction of Children." It decreed that "no
woman shall have a legal right to bear a child without a permit...no
permit shall be valid for more than one child."
(WSJ, 5/5/97, p.A18)
1934 Sir Lawrence van der Post
(1906-1996) wrote his first book "In a Province."
(SFC, 12/17/96, p.B4)
1934 Hans Zinsser, Harvard
bacteriologist, wrote "Rats, Lice and History," a biography of the
virus behind typhoid fever.
(NH, 9/98, p.9)(WSJ, 9/9/06, p.P8)
1934 William Phillips (d.2002 at
94) co-founded the Partisan Revue along with critic Philip Rahv as an
organ of the John Reed Club associated with the Communist Party. It
severed ties with the party in 1937 and went on to showcase some of the
finest writers of the era.
(SFC, 9/14/02, p.A19)
1934 Tex Owens sang his
lonesome-yodel classic "Cattle Call."
(SFC, 4/14/98, p.E6)
1934 Louis Armstrong took his band
to Paris, France.
(WSJ, 1/3/95, p. 8)
1934 In Kansas City a tenor battle
was held where 3 Kansas City players (Herschel Evans, Ben Webster and
Lester Young) jousted with Coleman Hawkins.
(SFC, 8/22/96, F4)
1934 Lena Horne (1917-2010) made
her Broadway debut in “Dance With Your Gods.”
(SFC, 5/10/10, p.C4)
1934 Alexander Mosolov, Soviet
composer, wrote his ballet "Steel."
(WSJ, 1/15/98, p.A17)
1934 The music drama "Der Weg Der
Verheissung" was created by Kurt Weill, Franz Werfel and Max Reinhardt
in exile in Austria.
(WSJ, 9/4/01, p.A19)
1934 Conde Balcom McCullough
(1887-1946), bridge engineer, began the construction of coastal bridges
in Oregon with money from the government Works Projects Administration.
The bridge across Coos Bay was renamed in his honor in 1947.
(HT, 3/97, p.74)
1934 A hotel was built on Midway
Island to service the Pan Am Clipper.
(SFEC, 7/20/97, p.T5)
1934 The Civilian Conservation
Corp. built the West Shelter at Oregon’s Cape Perpetua.
(SSFC, 9/21/08, p.E8)
1934 In Oregon the Oregon Caves
Chateau was designed and constructed for $50,000 by Gust Lium, a local
builder.
(SFEM, 10/12/97, p.39)
1934 Hound & Horn, originally
subtitled "a Harvard Miscellany", folded. It was a literary quarterly
founded by Harvard undergrads Lincoln Kirstein (1906-1996) and Varian
Fry in 1927.
(WSJ, 2/17/07,
p.P18)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hound_&_Horn)
1934 Bob’s Big Boy restaurants
popularized the double patty hamburger sandwich.
(AH, 6/07, p.11)
1934 The Popeye cartoon “We Aim to
Please” introduced the catch phrase “I will gladly pay you Tuesday for
a hamburger today,” uttered by J. Wellington Wimpy.
(AH, 6/07, p.11)
1934 Rosalie Edge,
conservationist, founded Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Kempton,
Pennsylvania.
(NH, 10/96, p.48)
1934 Paul King hit upon the idea
of the Easter Seal as the new emblem of the Ohio Society for Crippled
Children. In 1999 Easter Seals had an annual revenue of $484 million.
(WSJ, 4/5/99, p.A22)
1934 Clare Booth (d.1987),
managing editor of Vanity Fair, met Henry Luce, publisher of Time and
Fortune magazines. Her biography by Sylvia Jukes Morris, "Rage for
Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce," was published in 1997.
(WSJ, 5/30/97, p.A16)
1934 A postcard of a man in bikini
shorts inspired a Wisconsin-based Cooper’s Inc. designer to invent
Jockey Shorts, the first pair of briefs.
(SSFC, 11/29/09, p.N6)
1934 Wheaties began putting
pictures of athletes on the back and sides and insides of its cereal
boxes. The first athlete was the fictional Jack Armstrong of a popular
radio show.
(WSJ, 2/18/99, p.A20)
1934 The Augusta National Golf
Club in Augusta, Georgia, began hosting the Masters Tournament.
(Econ, 4/10/10, p.70)
1934 Stephen Edward Epler
(1909-1997) invented six-man football at Chester High School in
Chester, Nebraska.
(SFC, 7/25/97, p.A18)(Sky, 9/97, p.74)
1934 Luigi Pirandello (b.1867),
Italian playwright (Six Characters in Search of an Author), won the
Nobel Prize in Literature.
(HN, 6/28/01)(MC, 6/28/02)
1934 The Nobel Prize in Medicine
and Physiology was awarded to Drs. George R. Minot (1885-1950), William
P. Murphy and George H. Whipple for curing pernicious anemia with liver
extract in 1926.
(Smith., May. 1995, p.14)(WUD, 1994 p.913)
1934 The US Congress allowed US
created tribal governments to replace traditional Indian governing
bodies.
(SFEC, 5/4/97, z1 p.4)
1934 US Congress directed the
Federal Reserve to set margin requirements. The level fluctuated for
years but remained unchanged at 50% from 1974.
(WSJ, 11/8/99, p.C1)
1934 A Communications Act was
passed in the US.
(Wired, Dec. ‘95, p.154)
1934 US troops entered Nicaragua
to fight nationalist rebel leader Augusto Cesar Sandino.
(SFC, 1/14/02, p.B5)
1934 The US lease on Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba, was renegotiated to say that the land could only revert to
Cuban control if abandoned by the US or by mutual consent.
(SSFC, 1/20/02, p.A7)
1934 The US Justice Dept. took
over Alcatraz from the War Dept. and reopened it as a federal
penitentiary.
(SFEC, 3/8/98, p.W38)
1934 The US Supreme Court decided
in Home Building & Loan Association v. Blaisdell to back the home
owner as opposed to the lender in a mortgage payment dispute. The
Minnesota state court had earlier ruled that Minnesota law protected
the home owners from foreclosure for 2 years.
(WSJ, 5/1/08, p.A15)
1934 Charles Ponzi, Italian
immigrant, check forger and scam artist, was deported from the US to
Italy where he got work in Mussolini’s treasury and embezzled money
from the fascists.
(SSFC, 7/14/02, p.G2)
1934 The American Liberty League
was formed as a coalition comprised of conservative Democrats,
industrialists, financiers, corporation lawyers and others who opposed
social, fiscal and other aspects of President Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s
New Deal. The Liberty League attacked many of the laws passed in the
New Deal as unconstitutional and ultimately supported the Republican
presidential candidate in 1936, Alfred M. Landon. It was disbanded in
1940.
(HNQ, 9/3/00)
1934 The Arizona governor called
out the state militia and navy (2 ferryboats) to halt California’s
construction of the Colorado River Aqueduct. It took an act of Congress
and a Supreme Court decision to get the project restarted.
(SFC, 5/26/00, p.A5)
1934 In California a cross was
erected in the Mohave National Preserve as a memorial to the soldiers
of WWI. In 2010 the US Supreme Court voted 5-4 to approve the display
on government land saying the US Constitution does not require the
eradication of all religious symbols in the public realm.
(SFC, 4/28/10, p.A5)
1934 Upton Sinclair, muckraker and
socialist, ran for governor of California and wrote "I, governor of
California and how I ended poverty: A true story of the future." It
spoke of his utopian scheme called EPIC (End Poverty in California). He
was defeated by Frank Merriam (1865-1955). In 1992 Greg Mitchell
authored “The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair’s Race for
Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics.”
(SFEC, 5/2/99, Z1 p.5)(SFC, 1/12/05, p.E3)
1934 The Pacific Rod and Gun Club
moved into a new 13-acre city-owned facility at Lake Merced in San
Francisco.
(SFC, 3/20/08, p.A1)
1934 In Kansas City political
elections 4 people died under the infamously corrupt political machine
of Tom Pendergast.
(SFC, 12/2/96, p.A10)
1934 Hollywood introduced
Technicolor to the big screen.
(Hem, Mar. 95, p.49)
1934 Clarence Birdseye, since
there were no freezer cases in grocery stores, entered a joint venture
to manufacture them. National distribution of frozen foods became a
reality in 1944 when Birdseye began leasing refrigerated railroad cars
to transport his products. Birdseye's innovations led to the founding
of General Foods Co.
(HNPD, 12/9/98)
1934 Will and George Climes
founded Will-George pottery in Los Angeles, Ca. By 1948 the business
had moved to San Gabriel and renamed to Claysmiths. It closed in 1956.
(SFC, 10/24/07, p.G2)
1934 Lucky Lager was first
commercially introduced. The brand was founded by General Brewing in
California. Lucky Lager Brewing opened a second brewery in Azusa,
California in 1949, and bought smaller breweries in Vancouver,
Washington in 1950 and in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1960.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Lager)
1934 The Ideal Novelty & Toy
Co. (later the Ideal Toy Corp.) made the first Shirley Temple doll.
(SFC, 2/12/97, z1 p.6)
1934 Charles Guth, owner of Loft
Inc., a chain of candy stores and soda fountains along the East Coast,
acquired the Pepsi-Cola trademark. He tinkered with the recipe and
began selling 12-ounce bottles for a nickel.
(SFC, 2/18/98, p.B2)
1934 The Hearst Corp. acquired
House Beautiful magazine.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A9)
1934 The MUZAK Corp. formed to
provide background music in elevators and other public environments.
(Fresno Bee, 11/29/94)
1934 Radio controls built into the
instrument panel began to appear in some new automobiles.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1934 The Readphone was produced
for putting literature and music on long-playing disks.
(SFC, 7/26/00, p.D3)
1934 Enrico Fermi, Italian
physicist, published a mathematical theory of beta decay as a
simultaneous emission of an electron and a neutrino.
(SCTS, p.131)
1934 William Beebe and inventor
Otis Barton descended more than a half a mile into the ocean off
Bermuda in the 4,500 lb. bathysphere.
(SFEC, 11/17/96, BR p.4)(PacDis, Winter ’97, p.42)
1934 UC Berkeley shut down The
Razzberry (“uncensored and untrammeled”), a student publication that
satirized the faculty.
(SFC, 3/23/07, p.B9)
1934 William L. Clements,
industrialist, U of M regent and benefactor, died.
(MT, Sum. ‘98, p.9)
1934 Ernst Rohm, founder of the
Nazi storm troopers, was killed on orders by Hitler. Painter Francis
Rose claimed in his memoirs to have been friends with Rohm and Hitler,
and to have exacted a promise from air force chief Hermann Goering that
Gertrude Stein be left alone in wartime France. Stein’s statement that
"Rose is a rose is a rose" was later said to be a tribute to Francis
Rose.
(SFC, 6/9/96, Z1 p.5)
1934 Cassius Marcellus Coolidge
(89), artist, died on Staten Island. His work included "A Friend in
Need," commonly known as "Dogs Playing Poker."
(SFC, 6/17/02, p.D5)
1934 Otto Kahn (b.1867), Wall
Street titan, died. In 2002 Theresa M. Collins authored the biography:
"Otto Kahn: Art, Money and Modern Time."
(WSJ, 8/13/02, p.D4)
1934 Charlie Patton,
Mississippi bluesman, died. His music is on the album "Founder of the
Delta Blues" (Yazoo). His song "Dry Well Blues" described the
disastrous 1930 Lula draught.
(NH, 9/96, p.62)(NH, 10/96, p.66)
1934 Doris Ulmann (b.1882), New
York photographer, died.
(WSJ, 6/19/02, p.D7)
1934 After Albania signed trade
agreements with Greece and Yugoslavia. Italy suspended economic
support, then attempted to threaten Albania.
(www, Albania, 1998)
1934 Paul Otlet (1868-1944), head
of the Mundaneum in Belgium, sketched out plans for a global network of
computers (or “electric telescopes,” as he called them) that would
allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked
documents, images, audio and video files. In his 1934 book “Monde” he
laid out his vision of a “mechanical, collective brain” that would
house all the world’s information, made readily accessible over a
global telecommunications network.
(www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/science/17mund.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&emc=eta1)
1934 The Chechen-Ingush Autonomous
Soviet Socialist Republic was established.
(USAT, 9/2/04, p.13A)
1934 Folke Bergman, Swedish
archeologist, discovered the mummified remains of a Caucasoid community
in northwestern Xinjiang’s Lop Nur desert. The site was forgotten until
his book was translated into Chinese in the late 1990s.
(Arch, 1/05, p.12)
1934 Mussolini began his Ethiopian
massacre.
(TMC, 1994, p.1934)
1934 Henri Pigozzi founded Simca
(Societe Industrielle de Mecanique et Carrosserie Automobile), at
Nanterre, France. Translated it means an industrial company that makes
car mechanics and bodywork.
(www.allpar.com/model/simca.html)
1934 The German propaganda
documentary film "Triumph of the Will" was made by Leni Riefenstahl.
(WSJ, 11/8/99, p.A48)
1934 In Germany Herman Goering,
Nazi party official, approved a request from the Reich Forestry Service
to release North American raccoons into the wild. By 2007 there were
over a million raccoons living in Germany.
(SSFC, 5/27/07, p.A2)
1934 Greece’s PM Elevtherios
Venizelos nominated Kemal Ataturk for a Nobel Prize. Ataturk had
proposed that the Turkish mainland should be Turk (Muslim) and that the
islands should be Greek (Christian).
(WSJ, 7/24/98, p.W11)
1934 In Nepal an earthquake
damaged the Mahabuddha Temple in Patan, one of but 3 in the world.
(WSJ, 1/22/98, p.A17)
1934 There were 1,966 delegates to
the 17th Soviet Party Congress. By the 1999 Congress 1,108 delegates
were arrested and many shot as traitors. In 1999 J. Arch Getty and Oleg
V. Naumov co-wrote "The Road To Terror," an examination of the Stalin
purges that was a follow-up to Getty's 1985 work "Origins of the Great
Purges." The standard account on the purges is "The Great Terror"
(1968) by Robert Conquest.
(WSJ, 9/27/99, p.A32)(Econ, 12/3/05, p.79)
1934 The Soviet Union’s secret
police organization-the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs-was
better known as the NKVD. The NKVD replaced the State Political
Administration, or GPU. The GPU had formerly been known as the Cheka.
During World War II there were several reorganizations of the NKVD, out
of which grew the MGB, or Ministry of State Security. The MGB evolved
into the KGB in 1954.
(HNPD, 6/24/99)
1934 The Swiss set up banking
secrecy laws.
(SFC, 10/24/96, p.C2)
1934 Turkey passed legislation
that allowed the government to deny citizenship to gypsies. Turkey was
home to one of the largest Roma populations.
(Econ, 8/19/06, p.48)
1934 Women in Turkey were given
the right to vote and to jettison their veils.
(Econ, 11/8/03, p.49)
1934 In Uruguay a law was enacted
that made it illegal to attack a foreign head of state.
(SFC, 7/5/96, p.A12)
1934 King Alexander of Yugoslavia
was assassinated.
(TMC, 1994, p.1934)
1934-1935 Deng Xiaoping joined Mao Zedong on the Long
March flight from the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek. Yank Shangkun
also marched with Mao.
(SFC, 2/20/96, p.A4)(SFC, 9/16/98, p.C4)
1934-1940 Povilas Zadeikis (d.1957) replaced Mr.
Balutis as the Lithuanian representative in Washington. He continued
even with no official government to consult with and no official
funding until 1957.
(Dr, 7/96, V1#1, p.4)
1934-1945 Peter II began his rule over Yugoslavia.
(WUD, 1994, p.1682)
1934-1951 Leopold III began his rule over Belgium.
Under the Nazi occupation he was a prisoner of war.
(WUD, 1994, p.1682)
1934-1991 Shiro Kuramata, Japanese designer. His work
was marked by the use of disparate materials, the play of light and
solid, and a sense of the antic.
(WSJ, 9/17/97, p.A12)
1934-1998 Alfred Schnittke, composer, was born in
Engels in the Volga republic. He later wrote scores for over 60 films.
(SFC, 8/5/98, p.A17)
World War timeline 1935:
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/start.html
1935 Jan 1, Eastern Airlines hired
Eddie Rickenbacker as GM.
(MC, 1/1/02)
1935 Jan 1, Helen Richey became
the 1st woman employed as an airplane pilot. She resigned 10 months
later after the all-male pilot's union refused to accept her.
(SSFC, 12/14/03, p.D2)
1935 Jan 2, Bruno Hauptmann went
on trial in Flemington, N.J., on charges of kidnapping and murdering
the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Hauptmann was found
guilty but professed his innocence until he was executed.
(AP, 1/2/98)(SFC, 10/28/99, p.B7)
1935 Jan 4, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt claimed in his State of the Union message that the federal
government would provide jobs for 3.5 million Americans on welfare.
(HN, 1/4/99)
1935 Jan 4, Ft. Jefferson National
Monument was established in Florida.
(MC, 1/4/02)
1935 Jan 6, The play "Waiting for
Lefty" by Clifford Odets was first performed.
(WSJ, 5/1/97, p.A16)
1935 Jan 8, Rock 'n' roll legend
Elvis Presley (d.1977), "The King," was born in Tupelo, Miss. The most
popular singer of the 1950s and 60s. Best known for "Hound Dog,"
"Jailhouse Rock" and "Love Me tender." He also starred in over thirty
films.
(SFC, 8/11/97, p.A1)(AP, 1/8/98)(HN, 1/8/99)
1935 Jan 8, AC Hardy patented the
spectrophotometer.
(MC, 1/8/02)
1935 Jan 9, Bob Denver, actor
(Dobie Gillis, Gilligan's Island), was born in New Rochelle, NY.
(MC, 1/9/02)
1935 Jan 10, Sherrill Milnes,
baritone (Scarpia, Rigoletto), was born in Hinsdale, Illinois.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1935 Jan 10, Actress Mary Pickford
married actor Douglas Fairbanks.
(MC, 1/10/02)
1935 Jan 11, Aviator Amelia
Earhart began a trip from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif., becoming the
first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean.
(AP, 1/11/98)
1935 Jan 14, The oil pipeline from
Iraq to the Mediterranean went into use.
(MC, 1/14/02)
1935 Jan 16, US federal agents
killed gangsters Ma Barker and Freddy, one of her 4 sons, at Lake Weir,
Fla.
(AH, 2/05, p.16)
1935 Jan 19, The first pair of
Jockey briefs showed up in a Marshall Field’s window in Chicago.
(SSFC, 11/29/09, p.N6)
1935 Jan 20, Belgium arrested some
Nazi agitators who were urging for a return to the Reich.
(HN, 1/20/99)
1935 Jan 24, The 1st canned beer,
"Krueger Cream Ale," was sold by Krueger Brewing Co. of Richmond, Va.
(www.bcca.com/bccacan1.html)
1935 Jan 26, Bob Uecker, catcher,
actor, was born in Milwaukee, Wisc.
(MC, 1/26/02)
1935 Jan 27, The League of Nations
majority favored depriving Japan of mandates.
(HN, 1/27/99)
1935 Jan 31, The San Francisco
emergency relief committed said there are 80,491 people on relief.
20,000 were employed, 10,000 were on direct relief and 550 were
unemployable.
(SSFC, 1/31/10, DB p.42)
1935 Jan 31, The Soviet premier
told Japan to get out of Manchuria.
(HN, 1/31/99)
1935 Jan, Parker Brothers launched
the Monopoly game acquired from George Darrow and by mid February were
selling 20,000 sets per week.
(www.monopolycollector.com/)
1935 Feb 2, A lie detector,
invented in 1921, was 1st used in court at Portage, Wisc.
(MC, 2/2/02)(Econ, 7/10/04, p.71)
1935 Feb 4, Martti Talvela,
operatic basso, was born in Hiitola, Karelia, Finland.
(MC, 2/4/02)
1935 Feb 6, Turkey held its 1st
election that allowed women to vote.
(MC, 2/6/02)
1935 Feb 8, Max Liebermann
(b.1847), German impressionist painter, graphic artist, died in Berlin.
He was associated with several artists’ organizations including the
Berlin Secession.
(www.xs4all.nl/~androom/index.htm?biography/p011740.htm)
1935 Feb 10, Pennsylvania RR began
passenger service with new electric locomotive.
(MC, 2/10/02)
1935 Feb 12, The 785-foot USS
Macon, the last US Navy dirigible (ZRS-5), crashed on its 55th flight
off the coast of California, killing two people. After takeoff from
Point Sur, California, a gust of wind tore off the ship's upper fin,
deflating its gas cells and causing the ship to fall into the sea. Two
of Macon 's 83 crewmen died in the accident. The U.S. Navy lost the
airships Shenandoah in 1925 and Akron in 1933. Some considered airships
too dangerous for the program to continue at that point, and work on
them in the United States halted temporarily.
(HNQ, 2/7/99)(SFC, 9/27/06, p.B1)
1935 Feb 13, A jury in Flemington,
N.J., found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in
the kidnap-death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh.
Hauptmann was later executed.
(AP, 2/13/98)
1935 Feb 13, 1st US surgical
operation for relief of angina pectoris took place in Cleveland.
(MC, 2/13/02)
1935 Feb 16, Brian Bedford, actor
(Anthony-Coronet Blue), was born in England.
(MC, 2/16/02)
1935 Feb 16, Salvatore Bono
(d.1998), vocalist (Sonny & Cher), (Rep-R-Ca, 1995-98), was born in
Detroit.
(SFC, 1/6/98, p.A11)(MC, 2/16/02)
1935 Feb 17, Thirty-one prisoners
escaped an Oklahoma prison after murdering a guard.
(HN, 2/17/98)
1935 Feb 18, Rome reported sending
troops to Italian Somalia.
(HN, 2/18/98)
1935 Feb 22, All plane flights
over the White House were barred because they disturbed President
Roosevelt’s sleep.
(HN, 2/22/98)
1935 Feb 26, New York Yankees
released Babe Ruth. He signed with Boston Braves.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1935 Feb 26, Radio Detection and
Ranging (RADAR) was 1st demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1935 Feb 26, Germany began
Luftwaffe operations under Reichsmarshal H. Goering.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1935 Feb 27, Mirella Freni, lyric
soprano (Madame Butterfly), was born in Modena, Italy.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1935 Feb 28, Nylon was discovered
by Dr. Wallace H. Carothers.
(MC, 2/28/02)
1935 Mar 1, Germany celebrated
the return of the Saar Basin to the Reich.
(HN, 3/1/98)
1935 Mar 1, Germany officially
established the Luftwaffe.
(HN, 3/1/00)
1935 Mar 2, King Prajadhipok
abdicated and left for England. He was replaced by Ananda Mahidol
(1925-1946), who became Rama VIII.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda_Mahidol)
1935 Mar 3, Dutch Revolutionary
Socialist Worker's party (RSAP) was formed.
(SC, 3/3/02)
1935 Mar 6, Retired Supreme Court
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (b.1841) died in Washington. He later
became the subject of a novel, a film, a Broadway play and a postage
stamp. In 2000 Albert W. Alschuler authored the biography "Law Without
Values." "The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get
itself accepted in the competition of the market."
(AP, 3/6/98)(WSJ, 12/14/00, p.A24)
1935 Mar 7, In an effort to
reduce street noise, the city of New York revoked the licenses of all
organ grinders .
(HNQ, 7/25/98)
1935 Mar 7, Malcolm Campbell set
an auto speed record of 276.8 mph in Florida.
(HN, 3/7/98)
1935 Mar 7, Saar was incorporated
into Germany.
(MC, 3/7/02)
1935 Mar 8, In San Francisco a
boxing match between Joe Lewis and Red Barry was stopped after Barry
collapsed under punches from Lewis. Close to 8,000 fans watched the
bout at Dreamland where Lewis won close to $3,650 with Barry
getting about $1,200.
(SSFC, 3/7/10, p.46)
1935 Mar 9, Hermann Goering
announced the existence of the German Luftwaffe (air force).
(http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_781532807/Wehrmacht.html)
1935 Mar 12-1935 Mar 25, Colorado
dust storms killed 6 people, suffocated livestock and covered the
ground with up to 6 feet of dust.
(SFC, 3/19/09, p.D8)
1935 Mar 13, Driving tests were
introduced in Great Britain.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1935 Mar 13,
Three-thousand-year-old archives were found in Jerusalem confirming
biblical history.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1935 Mar 15, Joseph Goebbels,
German Minister of Propaganda banned four Berlin newspapers.
(HN, 3/15/98)
1935 Mar 16, Adolf Hitler ordered
a German rearmament in violation of the Versailles Treaty. He announced
in public Nazi rearmament and the existence of the new German air
force, the Luftwaffe.
(AP, 3/16/97)(HN, 3/16/98)(ON, 11/05, p.2)
1935 Mar 16, John J.R. Macleod
(58), Scottish-Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), died.
(MC, 3/16/02)
1935 Mar 16, Aron Nimzowitsch
(b.1886), a Latvian-born Danish chess player, died. In 1925 he authored
“My System,” which he described as a chess manual based on entirely new
principles.
(WSJ, 3/22/08,
p.W10)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Nimzowitsch)
1935 Mar 17, Hitler reviewed the
military parade in Berlin.
(HN, 3/17/98)
1935 Mar 19, Renee Taylor, actress
(Jack Paar Show, Mary Hartman, Nanny), was born in NYC.
(MC, 3/19/02)
1935 Mar 19, The British fired on
20,000 Moslems in India, killing 23.
(HN, 3/19/98)
1935 Mar 20, "Your Hit
Parade" debuted on radio. [see Apr 12]
(MC, 3/20/02)
1935 Mar 22, Michael Emmet Walsh,
actor (Wildcats, War Party), was born in Ogdensburg, NY.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1935 Mar 22, Blood tests were
authorized as evidence in court cases in NY.
(MC, 3/22/02)
1935 Mar 22, Reza Shah Pahlavi
renamed Persia to Iran, which in Farsi means Aryan. It reflected the
shah’s identification with Hitler’s Third Reich.
(SFC,11/19/97, Z1 p.7)(HN, 3/22/97)(SSFC, 1/8/06,
p.D1)
1935 Mar 22, Russia sold the
Chinese Eastern Railway to Japan.
(HN, 3/22/97)
1935 Mar 23, France, Italy and
Britain agreed to present a unified front in response to Germany.
(HN, 3/23/98)
1935 Mar 25, Hitler declared that
the Soviets endangered peace in Europe.
(HN, 3/24/98)
1935 Mar 27, The steamer North
Haven departed San Francisco with 2 prefabricated hotels and other
supplies to establish bases on Wake and Guam Islands in the Marianas to
support Pan Am flights.
(SFEM, 2/13/00, p.32)
1935 Mar 28, Goddard used
gyroscopes to control a rocket.
(MC, 3/28/02)
1935 Mar 29, French liner
Normandie began its maiden voyage.
(MC, 3/29/02)
1935 Mar 30, Britain and Russia
agreed on treaties intended to curb the power of the Reich.
(HN, 3/30/98)
1935 Mar 31, Herb Alpert,
bandleader, trumpeter (Tijuana Brass), CEO (A & M), was born.
(MC, 3/31/02)
1935 Mar, The German
Reichpost (Post Office) began the "first television broadcasting
service in the world". However, the quality was poor and
receivers were almost non-existent."
(http://www.tvhistory.tv/1935%20QF.htm)
1935 Apr 1, The first radio tube
to be made of metal was announced in Schenectady, NY.
(OTD)
1935 Apr 2, Sharon Acker, actress
(Della Street-Perry Mason 1973), was born in Toronto, Canada.
(MC, 4/2/02)
1935 Apr 2, Sir Watson-Watt
patented RADAR.
(MC, 4/2/02)
1935 Apr 6, Edwin Arlington
Robinson (b.1869), US poet, died. In 2006 Scott Donaldson authored
“Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poet’s Life.”
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Arlington_Robinson)(WSJ, 1/27/07,
p.P9)
1935 Apr 8, The Emergency Relief
Appropriation Act authorized $5 billion to increase employment and for
useful projects including the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
President Franklin Roosevelt proposed the Works Progress Administration
(WPA) during the Great Depression of the 1930s when almost 25 percent
of Americans were unemployed. The WPA created low-paying federal jobs
to provide immediate relief. The WPA put 8.5 million jobless to work on
projects as diverse as constructing highways, bridges and public
buildings to arts programs like the Federal Writers' Project. Writers
were paid to produce comprehensive guidebooks for each of the US states
and Washington DC. In 2008 Nick Taylor authored “”American-Made: The
Enduring Legacy of the WPA, When FDR Put America to Work.”
(AP, 4/8/97)(HN, 4/8/98)(HNPD, 4/8/99)(SFC, 3/12/08,
p.E2)(WSJ, 2/17/09, p.A13)
1935 Apr 8, Adolph Ochs (b.1858),
publisher of the New York Times, died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Ochs)
1935 Apr 10, Jorge Mester,
conductor (Louisville Orch 1967-79), was born in Mexico City.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1935 Apr 10, Vaughan Williams' 4th
Symphony premiered in London.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1935 Apr 12, Wendy Savage,
obstetrician, gynecologist, was born.
(MC, 4/12/02)
1935 Apr 12, "Your Hit Parade,"
debuted on radio. [see Mar 20]
(MC, 4/12/02)
1935 Apr 12, Germany prohibited
the publishing of "not-Aryan" writers.
(MC, 4/12/02)
1935 Apr 14, Loretta Lynn, singer
(Coal Miner's Daughter), was born in Butcher's Hollow, Ky. In 1948 she
married Doo Lynn (d.1996). she recorded her 1st single in 1960: "I’m a
Honky Tonk Girl."
(MC, 4/14/02)(SSFC, 1/26/03, Par p.8)
1935 Apr 14, A major sandstorm,
dubbed “The Black Blizzard,” ravaged the US Midwest. The Black Sunday
was the worst day of the almost decade long Dust Bowl era. It ravaged
Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. In 2005 Timothy Egan
authored “The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived
the Great American Dust Bowl.”
(SSFC, 1/8/06,
p.M1)(www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/dustbowl.htm)(Sm, 3/06,
p.111)
1935 Apr 16, The radio comedy
program "Fibber McGee and Molly" premiered on the NBC Blue Network.
(AP, 4/16/97)
1935 Apr 19, Dudley Moore, film
actor, comedian and musician, was born in Dagenham, East London.
(SFC, 3/28/02, p.A15)
1935 Apr 20, "You're Hit Parade"
began broadcasting and soon became #1.
(MC, 4/20/02)
1935 Apr 21, Charles Grodin,
actor, Woman in Red, Lonely Guy, Heartbreak Kid), was born in
Pittsburgh.
(MC, 4/21/02)
1935 Apr 21, King Boris of
Bulgaria forbade all political parties.
(MC, 4/21/02)
1935 Apr 27, US Congress declared
soil erosion "a national menace" in an act establishing the Soil
Conservation Service in the Department of Agriculture (formerly the
Soil Erosion Service in the U.S. Department of Interior). Under the
direction of Hugh H. Bennett, the SCS developed extensive conservation
programs that retained topsoil and prevented irreparable damage to the
land. Farming techniques such as strip cropping, terracing, crop
rotation, contour plowing, and cover crops were advocated. Farmers were
paid to practice soil-conserving farming techniques.
(www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/dustbowl.htm)(Sm, 3/06, p.111)
1935 Apr 28, The Moscow 81-km
underground opened.
(MC, 4/28/02)
1935 May 5, American Jesse Owens
set the long jump record at 26 ft. 8 inch.
(HN, 5/5/98)(MC, 5/5/02)
1935 May 6, The Works Progress
Administration began operating.
(AP, 5/6/97)
1935 May 6, British King George
& Queen Mary celebrated their silver jubilee.
(MC, 5/6/02)
1935 May 7, US Commissioner Ernest
E. Williams listened as witnesses charged Walter Lord, head of
Drive-Away Travel Service of Detroit, with violating the National
Recovery Administration automobile code. At least 10 young men were
left stranded in San Francisco after driving in cars from Detroit with
no pay. Drivers figured they had worked 138 hours, which at the NRA
rate of 37.5 cents and hour, would have meant $51.75 in wages for each
driver.
(SSFC, 5/2/10, DB p.46)
1935 May 11, The US Rural
Electrification Administration was established.
(SSFC, 1/18/09, p.D6)
1935 May 13, David T. Wilkinson
(d.2002), physicist, was born in Hillsdale, Mich. He became the driving
force behind the 1989 Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite. It provided
evidence for the "Big Bang" that spawned the universe 10-20 billion
years ago.
(SFEC, 9/28/97, p.A14)(SFC, 9/16/02, p.A20)
1935 May 14, A plebiscite in the
Philippines ratified a independence agreement.
(HN, 5/14/98)
1935 May 15, Kasimir Malevich
(b.1878), Ukraine-born Cubist painter, died. He was a leader of the
Suprematist movement in Russian painting. He pioneered the use of
abstract geometrical elements and limited colors to demonstrate the
supremacy of expressing feelings.
(WSJ, 6/21/99,
p.B14)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimir_Malevich)
1935 May 19, National Football
League adopted an annual college draft to begin in 1936.
(HN, 5/19/98)
1935 May 19, Colonel Thomas E.
Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, died 6 days after
sustaining head injuries in a motorcycle accident on a Dorset, England,
country road. Lawrence served the British Foreign Office as liaison
officer during the Arab revolt against the Turks in World War I. His
leadership and sympathetic understanding of the Arabs were instrumental
in Allied General Edmund Allenby's conquest of Palestine in 1917.
Bitterly disappointed by the 1919 Paris Peace Conference's refusal to
mandate Arab independence, Lawrence resigned from the Foreign Office in
1922 to write books about his Middle East experiences.
(HNPD, 5/19/99)(AP, 5/19/08)
1935 May 21, Jane Addams (b.1860),
a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), died. She was known for her work as a
social reformer, pacifist, and founder of Hull House in Chicago in
1889. She was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize
(1931). In 2001 jean Bethke Elshtain authored "Jane Addams and the
Dream of American Democracy" and edited "The Jane Addams Reader."
(AHD, 1971, p.15)(HN, 9/6/98)(WSJ, 1/2/02,
p.A16)(MC, 5/21/02)
1935 May 22, Stanley Baldwin,
Britain’s former PM, admitted that his estimation of Germany’s
Luftwaffe strength was wrong.
(ON, 11/05, p.2)
1935 May 24, The first
major-league baseball game played at night took place at Cincinnati’s
Crosley Field as the Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1.
(WSJ, 7/8/96, p.A8)(AP, 5/24/97)
1935 May 25, Barbara Harris, US
actress (Family Plot, Plaza Suite), was born.
(SC, 5/25/02)
1935 May 25, Jesse Owens set six
world records in less than an hour in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
(HN, 5/25/99)
1935 May 25, Babe Ruth hit his
last three and 714th and final home run for the Boston Braves in a game
against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
(AP, 5/25/97)(SC, 5/25/02)
1935 May 27, The US Supreme Court,
in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, declared President
Roosevelt's National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional.
(HN, 5/27/98)(AP, 5/27/07)
1935 May 29, André P.
Brink, South African writer (Dry White Season), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1935 May 29, Denis J. Worrall,
South African politician/leader (DP), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1935 May 29, Hague local museum
opened.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1935 May 29, Josef Suk (61) Czech
violinist composer, died at 61.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1935 May 30, Babe Ruth in his
final game went hitless for Braves against Phillies.
(MC, 5/30/02)
1935 May 31, In Quetta, India
(later Pakistan), a magnitude 7.5 earthquake killed some 50,000 people.
The earthquake flattened Quetta, killing an estimated 26,000 people in
the city alone, more than half its population.
(AP, 12/27/03)(AP, 10/15/05)
1935 May, In China Mao’s forces
crossed a narrow suspension bridge over the Dadu River in Sichuan
Province. Details of the event still remained controversial in 2006.
(Econ, 4/29/06, p.88)
1935 Jun 1, Driving test and
license plates were introduced in England.
(DTnet, 6/1/97)
1935 Jun 3, The French liner
Normandie set a record on its maiden voyage, arriving in New York after
crossing the Atlantic in just four days, 11 hours and 42 minutes.
(AP, 6/3/05)
1935 Jun 7, In Britain after the
resignation of PM MacDonald, King George V appointed Stanley Baldwin
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury.
(www.archontology.org/nations/england/bpm/baldwin.php)
1935 Jun 10, Alcoholics Anonymous
was founded in Akron, Ohio, by William G. Wilson (Bill Wilson), a
stockbroker, and Dr. Robert Smith (Bob Smith), a heart surgeon.
(AP, 6/10/97)
1935 Jun 11, Gene Wilder, actor
(Young Frankenstein, Silver Streak), was born in Milwaukee.
(SC, 6/11/02)
1935 Jun 12, Senator Huey Long of
Louisiana spoke continually for 15 hours in Senate's longest speech on
record (150,000 words).
(MC, 6/12/02)
1935 Jun 13, James J. Braddock
claimed the title of world heavyweight boxing champion from Max Baer in
a 15-round fight in Long Island City, N.Y. In 2005 Jeremy Schaap
authored “Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest
Upset in boxing History.” Braddock soon lost his title to Joe Louis.
(Econ, 5/7/05, p.79)(AP, 6/13/05)
1935 Jun 14, A commission of
neutral nations (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and the
United States) declared an armistice in the Chaco War between Bolivia
and Paraguay. A definite settlement was finally reached in 1938.
(http://countrystudies.us/bolivia/15.htm)
1935 Jun 16, Jim Dine, American
artist, was born.
(HN, 6/16/01)
1935 Jun 16, President Roosevelt's
New Deal legislation was passed by the House of Representatives.
(HN, 6/16/01)
1935 Jun 21, Jack Loreen (34),
holder of the world’s roller skating record from New York to Miami,
allowed himself to be buried at Balboa Street and the Great Highway in
San Francisco in a effort to beat his 65-day record, established last
year, for being buried alive in a coffin.
(SSFC, 6/20/10, DB p.50)
1935 Jun 24, Carlos Gardel,
Argentine tango singer, died with 17 others, including three of his
guitarists, when the propeller plane they were traveling in collided
with another on takeoff from Medellin, Colombia, and burst into flames.
(AP, 6/25/05)
1935 Jun 28, FDR ordered a federal
gold vault to be built at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
(MC, 6/28/02)
1935 Jun 30, Fascists caused an
uproar at the League of Nations when Haile Selassie of Ethiopia spoke.
He also warned the League of Nations of the dangers of appeasement.
(HN, 6/30/98)
1935 Jun, Theodore J. Carski and
Dr. Einar Leifson, laboratorians at Johns Hopkins Hospital, found
Baltimore Biological Laboratory (BBL). In 1955 it was acquired by
Becton Dickinson Corp.
(Horizon, summer 1995)
1935 Jun, A US law that required a
pink tax form of personal tax information under the Revenue Act of 1934
was repealed.
(WSJ, 4/3/06, p.B1)
1935 Jul 2, Gilbert Kalish,
pianist, professor (SUNY Stony Brook), was born in Brooklyn, NY.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1935 Jul 2, C. Jackson discovered
asteroid #1357, Khama.
(SC, 7/2/02)
1935 Jul 2, SF Bay Bridge riveter
Michael E. Markey (31) fell 290 feet to his death at Yerba Buena
Island. Fellow bridge workers quit for the day in accordance with
custom.
(SSFC, 6/27/10, DB p.46)
1935 Jul 5, President Roosevelt
signed the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act), which provided
for a National Labor Relations Board and authorized labor to organize
for the purpose of collective bargaining. The National Labor Relations
Board (NLRB) was created by a statute as an independent federal agency
that conducts secret-ballot elections to determine whether employees
desire union representation. This inaugurated the "pink decade"
of Soviet espionage and penetration of America's labor movement by
Communists.
(WSJ, 5/12/97, p.A15)(AP, 7/5/97)(SFC, 11/27/99,
p.C4)(SSFC, 1/11/04, p.M6)
1935 Jul 6, Dalai Lama 14,
spiritual leader of Tibet's Lamaistic Buddhists, was born as Lhamo
Thondup in Hong Ya, a mountain hamlet on the Tibetan Plateau. He was
formally recognized as the reincarnated Dalai Lama at age 2 and was
renamed Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (Holy Lord,
Gentle Glory, Compassionate, Defender of the Faith, Ocean of Wisdom).
He became a Nobel Peace Prize winner (1989) for his efforts to end
China's domination of Tibet.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzin_Gyatso,_14th_Dalai_Lama)(Econ,
2/28/09, p.44)
1935 Jul 12, Alfred Dreyfus,
French officer of Jewish background, died in Paris. His trial and
conviction in 1894 on charges of treason became one of the most tense
political dramas in modern French and European history. It is still
known today as the Dreyfus Affair.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Dreyfus)
1935 Jul 13, Jack Kemp, football
player, vice-presidential candidate for the Republican party in 1996,
was born.
(HN, 7/13/98)
1935 Jul 13, Richard Strauss
resigned as chairman of the Nazi Reichskulturkammer.
(MC, 7/13/02)
1935 Jul 16, The first parking
meters were installed, in Oklahoma City. Carlton Magee's automatic
meter, the "Park-O-Meter" was installed by the Dual Parking Meter
Company in Oklahoma City. The parking meters were divided by 20-foot
spaces painted on the pavement and accepted nickels.
(AP, 7/16/97)(HNQ, 8/4/02)
1935 Jul 17, Diahann Carroll,
actress, was born in NYC, NY, as Carol Diann Johnson.
(http://www.africanpubs.com/Apps/bios/0144CarrollDiahann.asp?pic=none)
1935 Jul 17, Peter Schickele,
composer, creator of P.D.Q. Bach, was born.
(HN, 7/17/01)
1935 Jul 17, The entertainment
trade publication Variety ran its famous headline, "Sticks Nix Hick
Pix," which might be translated as "rural America dislikes rural-themed
movies."
(AP, 7/17/97)
1935 Jul 18, Annie Smith Peck
(b.1850), one of the world’s renowned mountain climbers, died in New
York. In 1932 she authored “Flying over South America: Twenty Thousand
Miles by Air.”
(www.britannica.com/women/articles/Peck_Annie_Smith.html)
1935 Jul 18, Ethiopian King Haile
Selassie urged his countrymen to fight to the last man against the
invading Italian army. He had previously warned the League of Nations
of the dangers of appeasement.
(HN, 7/18/98)
1935 Jul 20, The 1st broadcast of
"Gang Busters" played on NBC-radio.
(MC, 7/20/02)
1935 Jul 24, Pat Oliphant,
political cartoonist, was born.
(MC, 7/24/02)
1935 Jul 24, Mel Ramos, pop
artist, was born in Sacramento, Ca.
(www.rogallery.com/ramos_mel/ramos_biography.htm)
1935 Jul 25, Barbara Harris, Tony
award winning actress in The Apple Tree, was born.
(HN, 7/25/98)
1935 Jul 25, Adnan Khashoggi,
billionaire arms dealer, was born.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1935 Jul 25, Laurent Terzieff,
actor (Pharaoh-Moses the Law Giver), was born in Paris, France.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1935 Jul 25, C. Jackson discovered
asteroid #1641 Tana.
(SC, 7/25/02)
1935 Jul 26, Bill Bailey
(1910-1995) and several seamen boarded the German passenger ship Bremen
in New York harbor and ripped the Nazi flag from its mast before a
crowd of some 5,000 people. The group battled 100 detectives, 150
uniformed police and 25 mounted police and members of the ship’s crew
to get to the flag.
(SFC,11/15/97, p.A19)
1935 Jul 28, G. Neujmin discovered
asteroid #1386 Storeria.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1935 Jul 29, Peter Schreier, tenor
(Dresden State Opera 1961), was born in Meissen, Germany.
(MC, 7/29/02)
1935 Jul 30, The 1st Penguin book
was published in England and started the paperback revolution. The
sixpenny books made a 1st blow to the library system.
(SFC, 12/29/99, p.E1)(MC, 7/30/02)(Econ, 5/1/04,
p.59)
1935 Aug 3, Richard D. Lamm,
Gov-D-Colo, was born.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1935 Aug 3, Georgi S. Shonin,
cosmonaut (Soyuz 6), was born.
(SC, 8/3/02)
1935 Aug 7, In Danzig
(Gdansk) 60% of voters agreed to Nazism (NSDAP).
(MC, 8/7/02)
1935 Aug 11, There was a Nazi mass
demonstration against German Jews.
(MC, 8/11/02)
1935 Aug 14, The Social Security
Act became law as President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social
Security Bill, providing assistance to the poor and needy. It created
an old-age and unemployment insurance, and supplemented mothers’
pensions with Aid to Dependent Children.
(AP, 8/14/97)(www.ssa.gov/history/1930.html)
1935 Aug 15, Humorist Will Rogers
(55), American comedian and "cowboy philosopher," and aviation pioneer
Wiley Post (36) were killed when their airplane crashed near Point
Barrow, Alaska. Rogers once said: "Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there."
(AP, 8/15/97)(HN, 8/15/98)(MC, 8/15/02)
1935 Aug 22, E. Annie Proulx,
writer, was born in Connecticut. Her novels included "Postcards" and
"The Shipping News."
(HN, 8/22/00)
1935 Aug 23, The US Banking Act of
1935 revised the operation of the Federal Reserve System.
(SSFC, 1/18/09, p.D6)
1935 Aug 26, Geraldine Ferraro,
(Rep-D-NY) 1st female dem VP candidate (1984), was born.
(MC, 8/26/02)
1935 Aug 26, The US Public
Utilities Act gave federal agencies powers to regulate gas and electric
companies.
(SSFC, 1/18/09, p.D6)
1935 Aug 30, The US Revenue Act
increased taxes on inheritances, gifts and higher income individuals.
(SSFC, 1/18/09,
p.D6)(www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=6038)
1935 Aug 31, Eldridge Cleaver,
political activist and author of "Soul on Fire," was born.
(HN, 8/31/98)
1935 Aug 31, President Roosevelt
signed an act prohibiting the export of U.S. arms to belligerents.
(AP, 8/31/97)
1935 Sep 1, Seiji Ozawa, conductor
(Boston Symphony Orchestra), was born in Hoten, Manchuria (now
Shenyang, Liaoning, China).
(www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Ozawa-Seiji.htm)
1935 Sep 2, A hurricane slammed
into the Florida Keys, claiming more than 400 lives. Estimates of the
dead reached 500-800. Some 260 WW I veterans were killed in the Labor
Day hurricane as well as over 160 permanent residents. In 2002 Willie
Drye authored “The Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of
1935.”
(WSJ, 4/2/07, p.B1)(AP, 9/2/07)(AH, 2/03, p.59)
1935 Sep 3, Sir Malcolm Campbell
became the first person to drive an automobile over 300 MPH. Campbell
drove the Bluebird Special on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah at a
speed of 304.331 MPH.
(MC, 9/3/01)
1935 Sep 8, The Hoboken Four,
featuring Frank Sinatra as lead singer, appeared on "Major Bowes
Amateur Hour" on WOR radio.
(MC, 9/8/01)
1935 Sep 8, Sen. Huey P. Long,
"The Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, was shot and mortally wounded in
Baton Rouge allegedly by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr.; he died two days
later ending what might have been a prominent national career. It was
suspected that Dr. Weiss was acting in revenge against Long's public
slandering of his father. The 1996 documentary film "Huey Long" by Ken
Burns was about the Louisiana politician who wanted to redistribute
wealth and make every man a king.
(TMC, 1994, p.1935)(AP, 9/8/97)(SFEC, 3/8/98, DB
p.47)(HN, 9/8/98)
1935 Sep 8, Carl Austin Weiss,
murderer of Sen Huey Long, was shot down.
(MC, 9/8/01)
1935 Sep 10, Mary Oliver, Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet, was born in maple Heights, Ohio.
(HN, 9/10/00)
1935 Sep 10, Sen. Huey P. Long,
"The Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, died from a gunshot wound
inflicted Sep 8 by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss Jr. In 2006 Richard D. White
authored “Kingfish: The Reign of Huey P. Long.”
(AP, 9/8/97)(Econ, 4/22/06, p.80)
1935 Sep 11, Charles Norris
(b.1868), former NYC chief medical examiner and forensic pioneer, died.
He and toxicologist Thomas A. Gonzales (1878-1956) were instrumental in
developing forensics as an extension of clinical medicine in which
information derived from study of the dead was applied to benefit the
living. Their combined efforts between 1918 and 1954 represent the
epitome of the application of scientific expertise to medicolegal
investigation of deaths in America. In 2010 Deborah Blum authored “The
Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz
Age New York.”
(http://tinyurl.com/yz82jfc)(SSFC, 3/21/10, p.F7)
1935 Sep 12, Millionaire Howard
Hughes flew his own designed plane at 352.46 mph.
(MC, 9/12/01)
1935 Sep 15, In Berlin, the Reich
under Adolf Hitler adopted The Nuremberg Laws which deprived German
Jews of their citizenship, made the swastika the official symbol of
Nazi Germany and established gradations of "Jewishness." "Full Jews,"
people with four "non-Aryan" grandparents, were deprived of German
citizenship and forbidden to marry members of the "Aryan race." German
Jews, had been barred since 1938 from government, medical, and legal
professions, and shut out from every area of German public life. After
the war Gen'l. Patton gave the documents to a friend and they were
stored in the Huntington Museum in Cal.
(AP, 9/15/97)(HN, 9/15/99)(SFC, 6/26/99, p.A3)
1935 Sep 17, Ken Kesey (d.2001),
author, was born in La Junta, Colo. His novels included "One Flew Over
the Cuckoo's Nest" (1962) and "Sometimes a Great Notion" (1964).
(HN, 9/17/00)(SSFC, 11/11/01, p.A16)
1935 Sep 19, Konstantin
Tsiolkovsky (b.1857), Russian scientist, died. He was a visionary and
pioneer of astronautics. He theorized many aspects of human space
travel and rocket propulsion decades before others, and played an
important role in the development of the Soviet and Russian space
programs. In 1932 Tsiolkovsky wrote "The Cosmic Philosophy," a summary
of his philosophical ideas. He also wrote science fiction books,
including "On The Moon” (1895), “Dreams of the Earth and Sky” (1895),
and “Beyond the Earth” (1920).
(www.informatics.org/museum/tsiol.html)
1935 Sep 25, Maxwell Anderson's
"Winterset," premiered in NYC.
(MC, 9/25/01)
1935 Sep 30, Johnny Mathis, singer
famous for "Misty" and "Wonderful Wonderful," was born.
(HN, 9/30/98)
1935 Sep 30, George Gershwin’s
opera Porgy and Bess opens at the Colonial Theatre in Boston.
(HN, 9/30/00)
1935 Oct 1, Julie Andrews (Julia
Elizabeth Wells), actress and singer, was born. Her films include "Mary
Poppins" and "The Sound of Music."
(HN, 10/1/00)
1935 Oct 3, Italy invaded
Ethiopia.
(DoD, 1999,
p.237)(www.onwar.com/aced/data/india/italyethiopia1935.htm)
1935 Oct 6, Italian army occupied
Adua, Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
(MC, 10/6/01)
1935 Oct 7, Thomas Keneally,
novelist, was born. His work included "Schindler’s Ark," the basis for
the film "Schindler’s List."
(HN, 10/7/00)
1935 Oct 7, The US Supreme court
held its 1st session in its new building designed by Cass Gilbert. It
was built on the site of an old Civil War prison. A new marble frieze
at the Supreme Court included an image of Mohammed. In 1997 a Muslim
group complained because Islamic tradition forbids images of the
prophet.
(WSJ, 3/13/97,
p.A1)(www.supremecourthistory.org)(WSJ, 8/27/03, p.B4)
1935 Oct 7, Himmler, Hess and
Reinhard Heydrich agreed to build a concentration camp at Dachau.
(MC, 10/7/01)
1935 Oct 10, "Porgy and Bess"
debuted at the Alvin Theater on Broadway in New York City. George
Gershwin composed the music based on a 1925 novel by Dubose Heyward. It
had already premiered in Boston.
(SFEM, 10/5/97, p.4)(AP, 10/10/97)(MT, Fall. ‘97,
p.12)
1935 Oct 11, Roy Scheider, actor
(Jaws, French Connection, Marathon Man), was born.
(MC, 10/11/01)
1935 Oct 11, The League of Nations
met and voted 50 to 4 (Austria, Hungary, Italy and Albania opposed) to
condemn Italy for the attack on Ethiopia.
(http://nazret.com/history/)
1935 Oct 12, Luciano Pavarotti,
Italian opera tenor, was born in Modena, Italy.
(AP, 10/12/07)
1935 Oct 19, Mao Tse Tung's army
reached Shanxi.
(MC, 10/19/01)
1935 Oct 20, Jerry Ohrbach, actor
(Law & Order, Dirty Dancing), was born in Bronx, NYC.
(MC, 10/20/01)
1935 Oct 20, 400,000 demonstrated
against fascism in Madrid.
(MC, 10/20/01)
1935 Oct 23, Dutch Schultz (33),
born as Arthur Flegenheimer, was shot in the men’s room of the Palace
Chop House and Tavern in Newark, New Jersey. He lingered for nearly a
day before dying after being the target of a mob hit. Schultz wanted to
have Thomas E. Dewey murdered because the special prosecutor had set
his sights on the numbers racket operated by Schultz. A syndicate of
New York’s top mobsters decided to murder Schultz because it feared the
wrath of the authorities and decided against the assassination. Schultz
gang members Abe Landau and Otto "Aba Daba" Berman and bodyguard
Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz were shot.
(HNQ,
9/27/02)(http://www.mobmagazine.com/ManageArticle.asp?C=20&A=115)
1935 Oct 30, The US Army Air Corps
held a competition to see which company would build the country’s
next-generation of long-range bombers. Boeing’s “flying fortress”
crashed shortly after takeoff and Martin and Douglas won by default.
(Econ, 1/16/10, p.84)
1935 Nov 3, Jeremy Brett, actor
(Adventures of Sherlock Holmes), was born in Berkswell, England.
(MC, 11/3/01)
1935 Nov 3, Left-wing groups in
France formed the Socialist and Republican Union.
(HN, 11/3/98)
1935 Nov 5, Maryland Court of
Appeals ordered the Univ. of Maryland to admit (black) Donald Murray.
(MC, 11/5/01)
1935 Nov 8, Alain Delon, French
actor (Honor Among Thieves, Return of Zorro), was born.
(MC, 11/8/01)
1935 Nov 9, United Mine Workers
president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee
for Industrial Organization. The Committee for Industrial Organization
(CIO, later renamed Congress of Industrial Organizations) was formed to
expand industrial unionism.
(AP, 11/9/97)(HN, 11/9/98)
1935 Nov 9, Japanese troops
invaded Shanghai, China.
(HN, 11/9/98)
1935 Nov 13, Anti-British riots
took place in Egypt.
(MC, 11/13/01)
1935 Nov 14, Nazis stripped German
Jews of their citizenship. [see Sep 15]
(MC, 11/14/01)
1935 Nov 14, King Hussein ibn
Talal I of Jordan was born in Amman to Prince Talal bin Abdullah and
princess Zein al-Sharaf bint Jamil of the Hashemite dynasty.
(SFEC, 11/15/98, p.A19)(SFEC, 2/7/99, p.A22)(AP,
11/14/07)
1935 Nov 14, Manuel Luis Quezon
was sworn in as the first Filipino president, as the Commonwealth of
Philippines was inaugurated. Pres. Roosevelt proclaimed the Philippine
Islands a free commonwealth.
(HN, 11/14/98)(AP, 11/14/97)
1935 Nov 16, Richard Rodgers' and
Lorenz Hart's musical "Jumbo," premiered NYC.
(MC, 11/16/01)
1935 Nov 20, Borden and Coca Cola
were removed from the DJIA. Du Pont and National Steel were added.
(WSJ, 4/8/04, p.C4)
1935 Nov 22, Pan Am inaugurated
the first transpacific airmail service, San Francisco to Manila. The
Pan Am China Clipper under Captain Ed Musick took off from Alameda
Point bound for the Philippines with 111,000 letters. It was the
company's first trans-Pacific flight. The plane was a 25-ton Martin
M-130 flying boat with a wingspan of 130 feet, and was the largest
aircraft in world service.
(HN, 11/22/98)(Ind, 5/1/99, p.5A)(SFEM, 2/13/00,
p.35)(NPub, 2002, p.13)
1935 Nov 28, The German Reich
declared all men ages 18 to 45 as army reservists.
(HN, 11/28/98)
1935 Nov 29, The Pan Am China
Clipper under Captain Ed Musick landed in manila Bay in the Philippines
after stops in Hawaii, Midway Island, Wake Island and Guam. It was the
company's first trans-Pacific flight.
(HFA, ‘96, p.18)(HN, 11/22/98)(Ind, 5/1/99,
p.5A)(SFEM, 2/13/00, p.35)
1935 Nov 30, Non-belief in Nazism
was proclaimed grounds for divorce in Germany.
(HN, 11/30/98)
1935 Dec 1, Woody Allen [Allen
Stewart Konigsberg], American actor, director best known for "Annie
Hall" and "Manhattan," was born.
(HN, 12/1/98)
1935 Dec 1, Lou Rawls, vocalist
(Dean Martin's Golddiggers, Natural Man), was born in Chicago, Ill.
(MC, 12/1/01)
1935 Dec 1, The fist airway
traffic control center went into operation.
(NPub, 2002, p.13)
1935 Dec 4, Some 1,200 at St
Joseph's College, Philadelphia, enrolled in an anticommunism class.
(MC, 12/4/01)
1935 Dec 5, Calvin Trillin,
journalist and writer, was born.
(HN, 12/5/00)
1935 Dec 13, Karim Aga Khan,
prince, billionaire, and husband of Rita Hayworth, was born.
(MC, 12/13/01)
1935 Dec 21, Phil Donahue, talk
show host, was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
(MC, 12/21/01)
1935 Dec 30, Sandy Koufax, Hall of
Fame left-handed pitcher with the L.A. Dodgers, was born.
(HN, 12/30/98)
1935 Dec 30, Italian bombers
destroyed a Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia.
(MC, 12/30/01)
1935 Dec, The fist Douglas DC-3
airplane was introduced. By 1938 it carried the bulk of American air
traffic. It was the first practical passenger plane and stemmed from
the DC-1, whose design was led by Arthur E. Raymond (d.1999 at 99).
Raymond helped found the Rand Corp. in 1948.
(SFC, 3/27/99, p.C2)(NPub, 2002, p.13)
1935 Sargent Johnson (1888-1967),
African-American artist in SF, made his sculpture "Negro Woman."
(SFEC, 4/12/98, DB p.43)
1935 Salvadore Dali painted his
"Portrait of Gala," (L'Angelus de Gala).
(WSJ, 3/27/00, p.A46)
1935 Rene Magritte painted "Le
Palais de Rideaux" (The Palace of Curtains).
(SFEM, 4/23/00, p.17)
1935 Matisse painted "The Dream."
He also painted "Large Reclining Nude" in this year.
(WSJ, 10/22/98, p.A20)(WSJ, 7/9/01, p.A26)
1935 Piet Mondrian made his
abstract "Composition No. 3. White-Yellow." It was first painted in
Paris and then repainted in New York City in 1942.
(SFC, 6/5/98, p.A17)
1935 Picasso made his etching
"Minotauromachie." Picasso met Dora Maar and began a 7 year affair with
the fashion and portrait photographer.
(WSJ, 9/13/96, p.A8)(SFC, 5/1/99, p.E1)
1935 A.G. Rizzoli created his work
"Mrs. Geo. Powleson Symbolically Portrayed."
(SFEC, 4/12/98, DB p.43)
1935 Stanley Spencer, English
artist, painted a portrait of his 2nd wife "Nude (Patricia Preece)."
(SFC, 10/14/97, p.B5)(SFC, 6/5/98, p.C1)
1935 Katharine Kuh (1904-1994)
opened Chicago’s 1st avant garde art gallery. She closed it in 1943 and
joined the Art Institute of Chicago, eventually rising to become its
1st female curator. In 2006 Avis Burman edited Kuh’s memoir titled: “My
Love Affair with Modern Art: Behind the Scenes with a Legendary Curator.
(Econ, 1/21/06, p.81)
1935 Maxwell Anderson wrote his
play "Winterset."
(SFEC, 5/30/99, DB p.37)
1935 Clifford Odets wrote his play
"Awake and Sing" and "Waiting for Lefty."
(SFEC, 5/30/99, DB p.37)
1935 Robert Sherwood wrote his
play "The Petrified Forest."
(SFEC, 5/30/99, DB p.37)
1935 William Burkett (d.1999 at
86) wrote "The History of the United States of America 1776-1904" at
age 22. The book provided text for a bronze plaque at Mount Rushmore.
He later served under Gov. Knight of California and Pres. Eisenhower.
(SFC, 11/18/99, p.C7)
1935 Samuel Fuller (d.1997 at 86)
wrote his novel "Burn Baby Burn."
(SFC,11/1/97, p.A17)
1935 Ernest Hemingway wrote "Green
Hills of Africa."
(SFEC, 6/25/00, p.T4)
1935 Robert E. Howard, pulp
fiction writer, created his Conan the Barbarian, the Sonora Kid,
Solomon Kane and other characters. His romance with Novalyne Price
Ellis formed the basis for the 1996 film "The Whole Wide World." It was
based on her memoir "One Who Walked Alone."
(SFC, 12/27/96, p.C3)(WSJ, 1/3/97, p.A7)
1935 Zora Neale Hurston published
her folk tale collection: "Mules and Men." In 2001 the collection was
reprinted as "Every Tongue Got to Confess: negro Folk Tales From the
Gulf States."
(SSFC, 12/23/01, p.M1)
1935 Anne Morrow Lindbergh
authored the travel book "North to the Orient."
(WSJ, 11/29/99, p.A26)
1935 Ella Maillart (d.1997 at 94),
Swiss sportswoman, wrote "Among Russian Youth: from Moscow to the
Caucasus." In 1947 she took a trip to Afghanistan with a sick,
morphine-addicted friend and wrote "The Cruel Way, Two Women and a Ford
in Afghanistan."
(SFC, 3/29/97, p.A20)
1935 John O’Hara authored his
novel “Butterfield 8.” In 1960 it was made into a film.
(SFEC, 3/23/97, DB p.39)(WSJ, 3/15/08, p.W10)
1935 John Steinbeck wrote his
novel "Tortilla Flat."
(SFEC, 6/21/98, DB p.35)
1935 An edition of Mark Twain’s
notebooks was published. "If you tell the truth, you don’t have to
remember anything."
(WSJ, 1/26/96, A-11)
1935 Thomas Wolfe wrote his 2nd
novel "Of Time and the River."
(SFEC, 11/17/96, DB p.40)
1935 Bob Hope hosted his first NBC
radio broadcast for Bromo Seltzer.
(SFC, 10/24/96, p.D5)
1935 Marguerite Veiller wrote her
murder mystery play "The Two Mrs. Carrolls," under the pen name Martin
Vale.
(WSJ, 8/29/97, p.A9)
1935 Hollywood produced the first
of 66 movies on Hopalong Cassidy with William Boyd.
(SFC, 1/21/98, Z1 p.3)
1935 Dubose Heyward wrote the hit
song "Summertime."
(WSJ, 2/2/00, p.W8)
1935 Frances Langford (1913-2005),
singer and entertainer, made a hit with the song “I’m in the Mood for
Love” by Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh.
(SFC, 7/12/05, p.B5)
1935 Sir Michael Tippett, British
composer, composed his initial work "First String Quartet."
(SFC, 1/10/98, p.A19)
1935 Frank Sinatra appeared on the
Major Bowes Amateur Hour. This marked the first know recording of
Sinatra’s voice.
(WSJ, 12/14/95, p.A-12)
1935 The new Los Angeles Times
building was completed. In 1910 a union-member bombing killed 21
nonunion pressman and linotype operators at the LA Times.
(WSJ, 9/16/08,
p.A23)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times_bombing)
1935 The Griffith Observatory
opened in Los Angeles. It was donated to the city by Col. Griffith J.
Griffith and designed by architects John C. Austin and F.M. Ashley. In
1976 it was designated a city historic-cultural monument. In 2002 it
closed and re-opened in 2006 after a $93 million makeover.
(SSFC, 12/14/08, p.B6)
1935 Construction of the Blue
Ridge Parkway along the southern Appalachians was begun. It was
officially completed in 1987.
(Hem., 4/97, p.68)
1935 Thomas More (1478-1535) was
canonized as a saint.
(WSJ, 10/22/98, p.A20)
1935 W.H. Auden married Thomas
Mann’s daughter Erika to get her out of Berlin on a British passport.
(WSJ, 2/12/96, p.A-13)
1935 Angus Bowmer, a theater
professor at Stanford and Oregon Normal School, founded the Shakespeare
Festival at Ashland, Oregon.
(SSFC, 3/18/01, p.T8)
1935 Little Lulu made her debut as
a character in a Saturday Evening Post panel drawn by Marjorie "Marge"
Henderson Buell.
(SFC, 2/4/98, Z1 p.6)
1935 The New Yorker hired Emily
Hahn (1905-1997) as its China correspondent.
(SFC, 2/19/96, p.A20)
1935 Joe DiMaggio hit .398 for the
SF Seals and 34 homers in his last year in the minors.
(SFC, 3/9/99, p.A10)
1935 The Pittsburgh Crawfords were
considered to have been the greatest Negro League baseball team of all
time.
(SFEC, 4/12/98, p.T4)
1935 The Soap Box Derby was moved
from Dayton, Ohio to Akron when the publisher of the Akron
Beacon-Journal promised the Derby’s first sponsor, Chevrolet, to build
a permanent race track. The track is currently 953.9 feet long.
(Smith., 5/95, p.26)
1935 Roller Derby began as a team
skating sport played on a banked oval track.
(SFEC, 5/11/97, p.C10)
1935 Joe Louis won a heavyweight
boxing match over Primo Carnera.
(SFEC, 6/8/97, BR p.8)
1935 Jay Berwanger of the Univ. of
Chicago won the first Downtown Athletic Club trophy. The trophy was
renamed the Heisman trophy in 1937 following the death of former coach
and club director John Heisman.
(SFEC, 6/13/99, p.C18)
1935 The name "Triple Crown
Winner" was coined by writer Charlie Hatton after the 3-year-old Omaha
won the Kentucky Derby, the NY Belmont Stakes and the Maryland
Preakness.
(SFC, 5/20/00, p.E3)
1935 The Resettlement
Administration (RA) was established by executive order under provisions
of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act. In the midst of the Great
Depression, the RA was authorized to administer projects for
resettlement of destitute or low-income families from urban and rural
areas. The experimental suburban communities for low-income city
workers, created by the Resettlement Administration during the Great
Depression, were known as "Greenbelt" towns. The "Greenbelt"
communities were specifically for low-income urban workers. Among the
towns were Greenbelt, Md., near Washington, D.C., Greenhills near
Cincinnati and Greendale near Milwaukee.
(HNQ, 6/1/00)(HNQ, 2/24/02)
1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt signed
the National Labor Relations Act.
(SFC, 3/12/97, p.A19)
1935 Pres. Roosevelt declared Fort
Jefferson on the Dry Tortugas a National Monument.
(NH, 4/97, p.38)
1935 The Public Utility Holding
Company Act reigned in electric utility monopolies.
(WSJ, 9/13/99, p.R4)
1935 The Rural Electrification
Administration was set up to bring power and telephone service to
communities across the country.
(SFC, 2/3/00, p.A1)
1935 The US Historic Sites Act was
passed on behalf of endangered antiquities.
(Arch, 11/04, p.4)
1935 The US Public health Service
received a study of asbestos health hazards prepared by the
Metropolitan Live Insurance Co. The government began using asbestos
extensively on navy ships during WW II. Workers began to file suits in
the 1970s. In 2003 some 300,000 asbestos suits were pending.
(WSJ, 11/11/03, p.A4)
1935 Kentucky Gov. Ruby Laffoon,
enjoyed the fried chicken of Harland Sanders so much that she named
Sanders a Kentucky Colonel.
(Econ, 8/27/05, p.62)
1935 The United Auto Workers of
America union was organized.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1935 Peter Petri (1916-2007),
Italian immigrant, hired in as an elevator operator for the St. Francis
Hotel for $2.80 per day.
(SFC, 1/17/07, p.B7)
1935 In San Francisco Paul C.
Smith (27) was named executive editor of The Chronicle newspaper.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A8)
1935 In Pasadena, Ca., R. Stanton
Avery (d.1997 at 90) began selling self-stick labels made from a
machine he invented using a washing machine motor, sewing machine parts
and a saw. By 1996 the Avery Dennison Corp. annual sales reached $3.2
billion.
(SFC,12/15/97, p.A20)
1935 Nicholas Doukas (d.1974 at
85) opened the Greek Orthodox Memorial Park cemetery, the only one in
the US, at the site of a heather farm in Colma, Ca.
(CHA, 1/2001)(www.colmahistory.org/History.htm)
1935 The Detroit Electric Company,
the last manufacturer of electric cars, ceased production of its
electric vehicles.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1935 The Auburn Speedster was the
first American car equipped with a standard radio.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1935 The Hammond organ was
introduced and became a low-cost alternative to the pipe organ. The
last Hammond B-3 was made in 1975.
(WSJ, 1/7/02, p.A16)
1935 The Morgan Stanley investment
bank was spun off from the J.P. Morgan empire.
(SFC, 2/6/97, p.A1)
1935 Tyson Foods was founded. By
2002 the company was the world’s largest processor and marketer of
beef, chicken and pork.
(WSJ, 6/24/02, p.A2)
1935 Samuel O. Blanc invented the
original Roto-Rooter machine.
(WSJ, 8/23/95, p.A-1)
1935 The first electric typewriter
came into use.
(SJSVB, 3/25/96, p.27)
1935 Francis and his father Max
Factor Sr. invented pancake makeup to keep actor’s faces from appearing
green in Technicolor films. Max Factor Sr. had been the czar’s personal
cosmetician and died in 1938. Francis then assumed his father’s name,
Max.
(SFC, 6/9/96, p.B-6)
1935 Scientists at Cornell Univ.
reported that restricting calories had an antiaging effect in rodents.
(WSJ, 10/30/06, p.A11)
1935 The vollum strain of anthrax
was 1st isolated from a cow in Oxfordshire, U.K. this was the strain
later used on Gruinard Island tests. Hundreds of Bacillus anthracis
strains exist. Other common strains named were Ames, Sterne and
Michigan.
(WSJ, 10/18/01, p.A8)
1935 Gerald Ford (1908-2006), 41st
vice-president and 38th president of the United States, graduated from
the Univ. of Michigan, where he had been a star football player.
(SFC, 12/27/06, p.A11)
1935 Alice Stuart (d.2001 at 88),
a black graduate student, sought admission to the Univ. of Virginia but
was rejected. Virginia then established a tuition supplement program to
fund black students for graduate schools outside the state, which
Stuart accepted. The program was declared unconstitutional in 1950.
(SFC, 6/15/01, p.D5)
1935 Benton MacKaye, founder of
the Appalachian Trail project, formed the non-profit Wilderness Society.
(ON, 5/06, p.10)
1935
Seismologists Beno Gutenberg and Charles Francis Richter introduced the
Richter scale. It became widely used as a quantitative measure of the
magnitude of an earthquake.
(http://welcome.topuertorico.org/glossary/index.shtml#936)
1935 There were 199 prisoners
executed in the US this year.
(SFC,12/15/97, p.A2)
1935 In Minnesota reporter Howard
Guilford was shotgunned to death. The state had indicted him 19 times
under false charges of which he was acquitted.
(SFEC, 8/16/98, BR p.10)
1935 Oliver Herford (b.1863),
American author, died. "A man is known by the silence he keeps."
(AP, 12/4/00)
1935 Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, German
sexologist, died.
(SFC, 8/2/97, p.E1)
1935 Gaston Lachaise (b.1882),
Franco-American sculptor, died. He was a modernist and obsessed with
his wife, who inspired much of his work.
(SFC, 2/2/02, p.D1)
1935 Paul Signac (b.1863), French
neo-impressionist pointillist painter, died. His work included
"Portrait of Felix Feneon, Opus 217" (1890-1891).
(WSJ, 11/6/01, p.A24)
1935 In Argentina new laws pushed
the private sector out of the upstream development of natural resources.
(WSJ, 10/4/96, p.A9)
1935 The Australian song
"Kookaburra" was penned by teacher Marion Sinclair for a Girl Guides
Jamboree. In 1990 music company Larrikin acquired the rights to
"Kookaburra." In 2010 the Australian band Men at Work were found guilty
of plagiarizing the children's ditty in their 1980s hit "Down Under"
after a court battle involving two of the nation's most iconic songs.
(AFP, 2/4/10)
1935 In Australia cane toads (Bufo
marinus) from Hawaii were introduced to wipe out beetles that were
devastating Queensland's sugar cane industry. The beetles survived and
the toads became a pest and a threat to the native quolls, small
spotted marsupials. On March 28, 2009, a festive mass killing of the
creatures began as “Toad Day Out.” The corpses were turned into
fertilizer for the very farmers who've battled the pests for years. In
2010 scientists reported that cat food attracts carnivorous meat ants,
which swarm over and munch on baby toads killing 70 percent of them.
(Econ, 7/12/03, p.38)(SFC, 6/10/06, p.B8)(AP,
3/26/09)(AFP, 2/18/10)
1935 A 2nd cyclone again killed
some 140 oyster crewmen in Broome, Australia. [see 1887]
(NG, 11/04, p.98)
1935 Stefan Zweig (1881-1942)
wrote the libretto for the opera Die Schweigsame Frau (The Silent
Woman) with music by Richard Strauss. It was banned by the Nazis and
Zweig was driven into exile.
(Econ, 5/23/09, p.91)
1935 Austrian physicist Erwin
Schrodinger imagined putting a cat into a sealed box along with a flask
of Prussic acid, a radioactive atom, a Geiger counter, an electric
relay and a hammer. If the atom decayed, the Geiger counter would
detect the radiation and send a signal to trip a relay, which would
release the hammer, which would smash the flask and poison the cat. The
famous unperformed experiment became known as Schrodinger’s cat.
(Econ, 10/3/09,
p.100)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat)
1935 In Britain Henry Grunfeld
(d.1999), a German Jewish refugee, teamed with fellow refugee Siegmund
Warburg (d.1982) to establish the New Trading Co., an investment
banking house that became known as S.G. Warburg in 1946. Swiss Bank
acquired the firm in 1995.
(SFC, 6/16/99, p.B4)
1935 Melita Norwood (23) a clerk
at the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association was recommended
to the NKVD by Andrew Rothstein, one of the founders of the British
Communist Party. Norwood served as a Russian spy, "Hola," until she
retired in 1972 and her role was not made public until KGB files,
brought to London in 1992 by Vasili Mitrokhin, were made public in 1999
in "The Mitrokhin Archive."
(SFEC, 9/12/99, p.A16)(SFC, 12/21/99, p.C8)
1935 John Buchan (1875-1940),
Scottish novelist and Unionist politician, became Governor General of
Canada and was created Baron Tweedsmuir. Canadian PM William Lyon
Mackenzie King had wanted him to go to Canada as a commoner, but King
George V insisted on being represented by a peer.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Buchan)
1935 Canada’s wheat growers set up
a state-run, but voluntary body, to market their crops collectively and
get better prices. In 1943 the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) became
compulsory.
(Econ, 7/30/05, p.59)
1935 France passed a set of laws
known as Appellation d’Origine Controlee (controlled place of origin).
The AOC laws were meant to protect growers and properly identify a
wine’s origin. They were not intended as an indicator of quality.
(SFC, 1/8/97, zz-1 p.4)
1935 Hitler repudiated the Treaty
of Versailles.
(TMC, 1994, p.1935)
1935 In Germany Paragraph 175 of
the Criminal Code punished "lewd and lascivious" behavior between men.
As many as 100,000 were arrested under the law.
(SFEC, 6/29/97, p.A18)
1935 In Germany the 6 man singing
group "Comedian Harmonists" was banned from performing because three of
the members were Jewish. The group split in 2 and an
émigré faction went on to the US and performed until
disbanding in 1941. The German-based Meistersextett also broke up in
1941.
(WSJ, 2/5/98, p.A20)
1935 The W. Goebel porcelain
factory in Rodental, Germany, began producing Hummel figurines.
(SFC, 10/12/05, p.G3)
1935 In India the Doon School was
founded in Dehra Dun, 140 miles northeast of New Delhi, on the former
site of Imperial Forest College & Research Institute.
(WSJ, 6/3/06, p.A1)
1935 Delhi, India, recorded minus
0.6 degrees Celsius.
(AP, 1/8/06)
1935 In Iran worshippers at the
Shrine of Imam Reza in Mashad protested a dress code that demanded
Western-style brimmed hats. A riot broke out a troops opened fire.
(WSJ, 6/2/07, p.A12)
1935 In Iraq Mohammed Mahdi
al-Jawahri, classical Arab poet, published "Al Jawahri’s Divan."
(SFC, 8/2/97, p.A21)
1935 The League of Nations studied
the khat plant, chewed and brewed as a legal stimulant in many parts of
the world. It was found to contain cathinone, a natural amphetamine,
that produces alertness and a kind of euphoria along with side effects
that cause users to become unstable.
(SFC, 9/11/98, p.A19)
1935 Mussolini presented a gift
of 3,000,000 gold francs to Albania; other economic aid followed.
(www, Albania, 1998)
1935 Mussolini exiled Carlo Levi
(1902-1975), Italian journalist, artist and doctor. As a Jew and for
his antifascist activities he was exiled until 1936 to two isolated
villages in the province of Lucania.
(www.kirjasto.sci.fi/clevi.htm)
1935 Bruno Ducati (d.2001) and his
brothers Adriano and Marcello began producing condensers and radio
equipment in Italy. They switched to motorcycle production after WW II.
(SFC, 5/17/01, p.A25)
1935 In Japan the Tsukji fish
market opened in Tokyo. It grew to become the largest fish market in
the world. In 2004 Ted Bestor authored “Tsukji: The Fish market at the
Center of the World.”
(Econ, 4/5/08, p.70)
1935 Latvia erected its Freedom
Monument, a 42-metre (138 ft) high structure in Riga, as a symbol
of resistance to foreign rule.
(Reuters, 2/19/08)
1935 Casino gambling was outlawed
in Mexico.
(SFC, 6/8/96, p.A7)
1935 In Taiwan a 7.4 earthquake
hit and killed 3,276 people.
(SFC, 9/21/99, p.A13)
1935 In the USSR Stalin began to
wipe out of many of his former friends.
(TMC, 1994, p.1935)
1935 Hotel Moskva, designed by
architect Alexei Shchusev, opened just off Red Square. It was later
featured on the Stolichnaya Vodka label.
(AP, 7/22/03)
1935 In the Soviet Union the
Stakhanovite campaign began in 1935 using the example of coal miner
Aleksey Grigoriyevich Stakhanov who, by allegedly mining 102 tons of
coal in one shift, exceeded and established new production norms.
Someone known as a Stakhanovite was a member of the Soviet workers’
elite by virtue of exceeding production norms and was rewarded with
special privileges. Used in a great propaganda campaign from 1935 to
the start of World War II, the higher production norms placed great
pressure on other workers and often resulted in quality of goods
sacrificed for quantity.
(HNQ, 10/3/98)
1935 In Istanbul, Turkey, the
Hagia Sophia Byzantine cathedral was turned into a museum. Also called
the Church of Holy Wisdom, it was built in 537 and remained a symbol of
Byzantine grandeur until Istanbul was conquered by Muslim armies.
(AP, 7/24/09)
1935-1943 Georgi Dimitrov, a Bulgarian communist
selected by Stalin, led the Comintern.
(WSJ, 6/6/03, p.W9)
1935-1936 The Italian army used chemical warfare
against Ethiopia in violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol.
(NH, 10/98, p.18)
1935-1938 An unknown murderer carved up at least 7
men and 5 women in Cleveland and left hunks of their bodies scattered
around town or dumped in the Cuyahoga River.
(SFC, 6/2/96, T10)
1935-1942 The American Guide Series was published as
panoramic guide of the nation under the Federal Writer’s Project. In
1972 Jerre Mangione published "The Dream and the Deal: The Federal
Writers’ Project, 1935-1943."
(MT, Sum. ‘98, p.6)(SFC, 9/1/98, p.A20)
1935-1942 Eliot Ness, former FBI agent, served as the
safety director of Cleveland, Ohio.
(SFC, 9/11/97, p.A3)
1935-1944 In 2000 the memoir of Mihail Sebastian, a
Jewish Romanian playwright, was published: "Journal, 1935-1944: The
Fascist Years." Sebastian died soon after the war in a traffic accident.
(SSFC, 12/17/00, Par p.19)
1935-1945 Arthur Fellig, a photographer known as
Weegee, roamed New York City and shot the underbelly of the city. A
1997 book: "Weegee’s World" shows his work.
(WSJ, 12/4/97, p.A20)
1935-1945 There were 12,731 B-17 bomber airplanes
built. Nicknamed the "Flying Fortress," over 4,000 never returned from
combat.
(WSJ, 9/9/98, p.A20)
1935-1948 W.L. Mackenzie King, Liberal, again served
as the 10th Prime Minister of Canada.
(CFA, ‘96, p.81)
1935-1970 Denmark gave sex offenders a choice between
prison or surgical castration. The practice was banned due to criticism
that it was inhumane and irreversible.
(SFC, 8/31/96, p.A12)
1935-1976 In Sweden an involuntary sterilization
program was conducted over this period during which some 63,000 people
were deemed genetically inferior and involuntarily sterilized. In 1999
a commission recommended that victims, 90% women, be paid $21,000 each.
Checks for over $22,000 were soon mailed out to some 200 victims.
(SFC, 8/26/97, p.C3)(SFC, 1/27/99, p.C10)(SFEC,
11/14/99, p.A26)
1935-1981 Rabbi Eisenstein (d.2001 at 94) edited "The
Reconstructionist" journal. Reconstructionist belief saw Judaism as
"the evolving religious civilization of the Jewish people." Eisenstein
believed that God could be understood only by observing God’s effect on
the world. "We get to know what God is by what God makes people do."
(SFC, 7/5/01, p.D2)
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