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1935 in United States of America
Explore 37 historical events and records for United States of America in 1935.
Historical records for United States of America in 1935
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January
1st Flight Hawaii-California
1st person to fly solo from Hawaii to California
February
Gold Clause Cases
The Supreme Court largely sustains federal measures overriding contractual gold clauses, confirming the government's power to prevent private obligations from restoring the old gold value.
May
Works Progress Administration
Hopkins directs a large federal programme providing jobs on public projects.
EPR Paper
Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen publish their argument that quantum mechanics may not provide a complete description of physical reality.
Franklin Medal
Receives the Franklin Medal in recognition of his work in relativity and the photoelectric effect.
World Record
Breaks 3 world records & ties another at the Big Ten Track and Field Championships in Michigan-in just 45 minute
July
National Labor Relations Act
The Act protects collective bargaining and establishes the National Labor Relations Board.
August
Social Security Act
The Act creates federal old-age benefits and cooperative unemployment-insurance programmes.
Death of Will Rogers
Death of Will Rogers
Banking Act of 1935
The Act strengthens central direction of monetary policy through a redesigned Federal Reserve Board.
Asteroid 1373 Cincinnati
Edwin Hubble discovers asteroid 1373 Cincinnati at Mount Wilson Observatory.
September
World Record
Sets a new speed record, taking a plane to 352 mph
December
Birth of Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg
Birth of Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg)
Other events (month unknown)
Academy Award
Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, "The Informer" as Gypo Nolan
Adviser
Appointed Military Adviser to the Philippines
Angular Rotations of Spiral Nebulae
Hubble publishes an Astrophysical Journal note on reported angular rotations of spiral nebulae, addressing whether measurable internal angular motions were compatible with their extragalactic distances.
Bridge Geometry Connects Two Spacetime Sheets
The Einstein-Rosen construction joined two copies of a spacetime solution through a geometric bridge, creating an early mathematical example of what later literature called a wormhole.
Economy of USA
Concentrates on social security & sets up a works progress administration
Einstein-Rosen Bridge
With Nathan Rosen, studies bridge solutions in general relativity connecting two sheets of spacetime.
Einstein-Rosen Bridge
Rosen coauthors work with Einstein on bridge solutions of the gravitational field equations
Einstein-Rosen Bridge Proposed as Particle Model
Einstein and Nathan Rosen constructed a bridge geometry from solutions of the gravitational field equations while exploring whether particles could be represented without ordinary singularities.
Health of Marilyn Monroe
Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was institutionalized at the Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk
Invention of Television
Awarded "priority of invention" patent by the US Patents Office
King of Swing
Clarinetist Benny Goodman named "King of Swing"; Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw lead popular dance bands
Lucy Gayheart
Cather published Lucy Gayheart, a novel about music and thwarted promise.
Madden Dam
Madden Dam enters service, improving flood control and dry-season water storage for canal operations.
Military Attache
Appointed Military Attache in Beijing
Orphans Home
Placed in the Los Angeles Orphans Home
Porgy and Bess
1st performance of, "Porgy & Bess"
Porgy and Bess Broadway Premiere
George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess premiered in New York, portraying the lives and struggles of residents of Catfish Row.
Refugee Assistance in Paris
Arendt worked with organizations helping Jewish young people emigrate.
Silliman Lectures at Yale
Edwin Hubble delivers the Silliman Memorial Lectures at Yale, presenting a systematic account of extragalactic astronomy that becomes the foundation of his 1936 book The Realm of the Nebulae.
Social Security
Concentrates on social security & sets up a works progress administration
Sulzberger Becomes Times Publisher
Arthur Hays Sulzberger succeeded Adolph Ochs as publisher and directed the newspaper through the Second World War era.
Two Methods of Investigating Nebular Redshift
Edwin Hubble and Richard C. Tolman publish two observational methods for testing the nature of nebular redshift, linking galaxy measurements with cosmological models.
Western Union New York Transfer
Western Union transferred Shaw from New Orleans to New York City in 1935.
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