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Historical Event(s)
– Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh
– Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Pig in Chinese astrology.
– Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom.
– DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
– Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
– The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
– Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
– Chaco War ends: a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
– 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
Who Were Born On ?
– Melvyn Hayes, British actor
– Leonid Yengibarian, Armenian clown and actor (d. 1972)
– Willie Galimore, American football player (d. 1964)
– David Hartman, American actor and television personality
– Samak Sundaravej, Thai 25th Prime Minister (d. 2009)
– Tom Cartwright, English cricketer (d. 2007)
– Al MacNeil, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
– Alan Clarke, British film director (d. 1990)
– Bernard Babior, American biochemist
– Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Israeli chess player