WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO OCTOBER 1935
Find out what all happened August to October 1935

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

India's first all-boys public school, The Doon School, is founded. (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 Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated. (30. September 1935)

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

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

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