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| | | US seismologist Charles Richter devises a scale for measuring the magnitude of earthquakes | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Adolf Hitler gives Karl Dönitz, a submarine commander from World War I, responsibility for Germany's U-boat programme | |
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| c. 1935 |
| | | The Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz describes his experiments on young geese, with their capacity to imprint on human beings | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Adolf Hitler promulgates a law prohibiting any sexual relationship between Jews and 'Aryans' | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges publishes A Universal History of Infamy, one of the first examples of magic realism | |
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| 1935 |
| | | French cabaret singer Edith Gassion acquires the nickname la môme piaf ('the little sparrow'), and so becomes Edith Piaf | |
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| 1935 |
| | | The mighty Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam in 1947) is completed on the Colorado River | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Marie Rambert's London-based company, deriving originally from her school, takes the name Ballet Rambert | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Leningrad's opera and ballet company is renamed the Kirov, in memory of the city's recently assassinated commissar | |
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| 1935 |
| | | US industrialist Howard Hughes sets a new speed record of 352 mph, flying a plane designed by himself | |
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| 1935 |
| | | New Nazi laws announced at Nuremberg strip Jews of their German citizenship | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Italian baritone Tito Gobbi makes his operatic debut in Gubbio in Bellini's La Somnambula | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Mussolini uses a disagreement over grazing rights as a pretext for an empire-building invasion of Ethiopia | |
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| c. 1935 |
| | | A collection of Constantine Cavafy's poems is published in Alexandria in an undated edition | |
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| 1935 |
| | | W.L. Mackenzie King starts another long spell, of thirteen years, as Canadian prime minister | |
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| 1935 |
| | | The survivors of the Long March reach safety in Shaanxi province in northwest China | |
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| 1935 |
| | | R.K. Narayan's novel Swami and Friends is the first set in his fictional town of Malgudi | |
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| 1935 |
| | | British publisher Allen Lane launches a paperback series to which he gives the name Penguin Books | |
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| 1935 |
| | | George Gershwin's 'folk opera' Porgy and Bess, based on the novel by DuBose Heyward, opens on Broadway | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Within the National government Ramsay MacDonald cedes the role of prime minister to the Conservative leader, Stanley Baldwin | |
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| c. 1935 |
| | | Kim Il Sung leads a Communist guerrilla campaign against the Japanese occupation of Korea | |
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| 1935 |
| | | US jazz pianist William ('count') Basie acquires his own orchestra | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Alban Berg's opera Lulu is incomplete when the composer dies | |
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| 1936 |
| | | George V dies and is succeeded on the British throne by his eldest son Edward VIII | |
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| 1936 |
| | | The new sound of jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman's touring band brings him the title 'King of Swing' | |
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| 1936 |
| | | In Modern Times, the last film featuring the little tramp, Charlie Chaplin sets his character in a mechanistic, impersonal world | |
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| 1936 |
| | | Salvador Dali creates a stir by attending the opening of London's Surrealist exhibition in a diving suit | |
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| 1936 |
| | | The rest of Europe offers no effective objection when Adolf Hitler moves his troops into the demilitarized Rhineland | |
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| c. 1936 |
| | | Frank Lloyd Wright experiments with prefabrication for low-cost housing in a style he calls Usonian (meaning 'in the US style') | |
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| 1936 |
| | | On the death of his father, Fuad I, the 16-year-old Farouk becomes king of Egypt | |
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| 1936 |
| | | The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is founded as a public service in competition with private radio stations | |
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| 1936 |
| | | US composer Aaron Copland writes El Salón México, using popular Mexican tunes | |
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| 1936 |
| | | German architect Werner March designs spectacular buildings for the Berlin Olympics | |
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