Top News Stories from 1935

World Events

• Nazis repudiate Versailles Treaty, introduce compulsory military service.
• Mussolini invades Ethiopia; League of Nations invokes sanctions.
• Persia becomes Iran under Reza Shah Pahlevi.
• Nazis enact Nuremberg Laws against Jews to prevent "racial pollution." Heinrich Himmler starts breeding program to produce "Aryan super race."

U.S. Events

• Roosevelt opens second phase of New Deal in U.S., calling for social security, better housing, equitable taxation, and farm assistance.
• Huey Long assassinated in Louisiana .
• George H. Gallup begins the "Gallup Poll." In 1936 the poll will successfully predict outcome of the presidential election.

Economics

Sports

World Series

Stanley Cup

Wimbledon

Kentucky Derby Champion

NCAA Football Champions

Entertainment

Events

• Although a primitive, two-color process was first used in 1922, audiences weren't impressed by Technicolor until a three-color system appeared in Becky Sharp.
• George Gershwin combines black folk idiom and Broadway musical techniques in Porgy and Bess.
• Allen Lane's Penguin Press, an English publishing house, reintroduces the paperback book.

Science

• Du Pont chemist Wallace Hume Carothers creates nylon, the first completely synthetic fabric.
• Aircraft-detecting radar is pioneered by Robert Watson-Watt in England.

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