WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1935
Find out what all happened August to December 1935

The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded for the first time. The winner is halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago. (9. December 1935)

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

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

US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building. (8. September 1935)

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

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

Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler. (12. December 1935)

Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers. (6. November 1935)

The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress. (24. November 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)

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

First flight of the Hawker Hurricane, with its K5083 first prototype. (6. November 1935)

Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second President of the Philippines. (15. November 1935)

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

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

The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor. (9. November 1935)

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

The China Clipper, the first plane to offer commercial transpacific air service, takes off from Alameda, California, for its first commercial flight. It reaches its destination, Manila, a week later. (22. November 1935)

Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono. (3. October 1935)

In an attempt to stay out of the growing turmoil in Europe, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts. (31. August 1935)

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