WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 1935
Find out what all happened January to August 1935

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

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

The first flight of the Curtiss P-36 Hawk. Hindenburg disaster (6. May 1935)

Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion. (28. January 1935)

Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh. (2. January 1935)

The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (16. July 1935)

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

Percy Shaw founded his company Reflecting Roadstuds Limited to make "cat's eye"s (15. March 1935)

Chaco War ends: a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932. (10. June 1935)

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

The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (43°C) in Chicago, Illinois and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (24. July 1935)

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

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

New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495). (27. 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)

Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement. (7. January 1935)

A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh. (13. February 1935)

Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. (26. February 1935)