WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1935
Find out what all happened February to October 1935

First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. (28. July 1935)

Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. (23. March 1935)

The classic board game Monopoly is invented. (7. February 1935)

Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, meaning "Land of the Aryans". (21. March 1935)

Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan. (25. May 1935)

The Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends. (20. October 1935)

Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska. (15. August 1935)

Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica. (20. February 1935)

A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000. (31. May 1935)

Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson. (10. June 1935)

The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted. (23. April 1935)

Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired. (14. August 1935)

Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi (24. September 1935)

Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total 60 injuries and 24 arrests. (18. June 1935)

Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen. (20. July 1935)

New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration. (6. May 1935)

India's first all-boys public school, The Doon School, is founded. (15. September 1935)

One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario. (3. June 1935)

The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship. (15. September 1935)

Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the International Railway (New York – Ontario). (13. September 1935)

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