WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO OCTOBER 1935
Find out what all happened May to October 1935

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

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

Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa Trek. (1. July 1935)

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

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

Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: a large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423. (2. September 1935)

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

A coup d'état by the royalist leadership of the Greek Armed Forces takes place in Athens. It overthrows the government of Panagis Tsaldaris and establishes a regency under Georgios Kondylis, effectively ending the Second Hellenic Republic. (10. October 1935)

Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph (3. September 1935)

The Moscow Metro is opened to public. (15. May 1935)

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

The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated. (30. September 1935)

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

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)

Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith (founders of Alcoholics Anonymous) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling. (12. May 1935)

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

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

Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika. (15. September 1935)

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

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