December 24 - Alban Berg, Austrian composer (b. 1885)
December 25 - Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic (b. 1852)
Events
January 2 - Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
January 7 - Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco–Italian Agreement.
January 11 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
January 13 - A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
January 19 - Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.
January 28 - Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
February 2 - Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine.
February 13 - A jury in Flemington, New Jersey finds Bruno Hauptmann guilty of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby, the son of Charles Lindbergh.
February 20 - Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
February 26 - The Daventry Experiment, Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of RADAR in the United Kingdom.
February 28 - Nylon is invented by Wallace Carothers.
March 9 - Adolf Hitler announces the creation of a new air force.
March 16 - Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription was reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
March 21 - Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans'.
March 23 - Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
April 8 - The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.
April 14 - "Black Sunday", the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
April 23 - Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
May 6 - New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration.
May 14 - The Philippines ratifies an independence agreement.
May 14 - Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proved to be their last victory for 99 matches, a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win was not until May 29, 1939.
May 24 - The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 at Crosley Field.
May 25 - Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks five world records and ties a sixth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
May 27 - New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
June 1 - The first driving tests are introduced in the United Kingdom.
June 3 - One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, British Columbia, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa, Ontario.
June 9 - Ho-Umezu Agreement: the Republic of China, under KMT administration, recognizes Japanese occupations in Northeast China.
June 10 - Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
June 11 - Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey.
June 12 - Chaco War ends: a truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
June 13 - In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, the 10 to 1 underdog James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer in Long Island City, New York, and becomes the heavyweight champion of the world.
June 25 - Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Colombia are established.
June 30 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its first congress.
July 1 - Regina, Saskatchewan police and Royal Canadian Mounted Police ambush strikers participating in On-to-Ottawa-Trek.
July 5 - The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
July 16 - The world's first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
July 20 - Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
July 24 - The world's first children's railway opens in Tbilisi, USSR.
July 24 - The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (44°C) in Chicago and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
August 14 - United States Social Security Act passes, creating a government pension system for the retired.
August 15 - Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
September 2 - Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: a large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
September 3 - Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300 mph
September 8 - US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed "Kingfish", is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.
September 13 - Rockslide near Whirlpool Rapids Bridge ends the Great Gorge and International Railway.
September 15 - Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of citizenship.
September 15 - Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag with the swastika.
September 24 - Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
September 30 - The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
October 3 - Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono.
October 10 - A tornado destroys the 160 metre tall wooden radio tower in Langenberg. As a result of this catastrophe, few wooden towers are constructed after this date.
October 19 - The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
October 23 - 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.
October 25 - Hurricane floods Haiti, killing over 2,000 people.
November 3 - George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular plebiscite.
November 6 - 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.
November 6 - First flight of the Hawker Hurricane.
November 8 - A dozen labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), an organization charged with advancing industrial unionism.
November 9 - The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
November 15 - Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second president of the Philippines.
November 22 - The China Clipper took off from Alameda, California in an attempt to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean (the airplane later reached its destination, Manila, and delivered over 110,000 pieces of mail).
November 24 - The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
December 8 - The Japanese military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect Oomoto, beginning with a crackdown on the sect's operational bases of Ayabe and Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture and the arrest of its leader Onisaburo Deguchi.
December 9 - Walter Liggett American newspaper editor and muckraker killed in gangland murder.
December 10 - The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, was given to halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
December 17 - First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
December 18 - The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
December 28 - Pravda publishes a letter by Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.
