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1935 Calendar

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•  February 4, 1935 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Pig in Chinese astrology.
•  February 7, 1935 – The classic board game Monopoly is invented.
•  February 12, 1935 – USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
•  February 26, 1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom.
•  March 21, 1935 – Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans.'
•  June 25, 1935 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established.
•  September 15, 1935 – Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika.
•  October 10, 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.
•  October 23, 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.
•  November 22, 1935 – The China Clipper, the first transpacific mail and passenger service, takes off from Alameda, California for its first commercial flight. It reaches its destination, Manila, a week later.

•  January 8, 1935 – Elvis Presley, American singer (d. 1977)
•  May 5, 1935 – Douglas Marland, American television writer (d. 1993)
•  May 10, 1935 – Larry Williams, American singer and songwriter (d. 1980)
•  June 13, 1935 – Christo, Bulgarian artist
•  August 13, 1935 – Mudcat Grant, American baseball player
•  October 6, 1935 – Bruno Sammartino, Italian strongman and professional wrestler
•  October 12, 1935 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (d. 2007)
•  October 22, 1935 – Ann Rule, American true-crime writer
•  December 3, 1935 – Eddie Bernice Johnson, American politician
•  December 14, 1935 – Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991)