WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO DECEMBER 1935
Find out what all happened July to December 1935

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

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

Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre. (23. October 1935)

First flight of the Douglas DC-3. (17. December 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)

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

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

The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress. (24. November 1935)

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

Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska. (15. August 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 Long March, a mammoth retreat undertaken by the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party a year prior, ends. (20. October 1935)

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

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)

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

Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder. (9. December 1935)

The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia. (19. October 1935)

George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possible fixed, plebiscite. (3. November 1935)

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