1935 General Historical Events

General Historical Events

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January 13

*The League of Nations plebiscite carried out in the Saar region showed that the people of the area would overwhelmingly prefer to be reunited with Germany.

March 1

*The League of Nations returned the Saar, with its coalfield, to Germany.

March 2

*King Rama VII of Siam abdicated and was succeeded by his ten year old nephew Rama VIII.

June 3

*The new French Line passenger linere, the Normandie, arrived in New York Harbor after her maiden voyage, crossing the Atlantic in four days, 11 hours.  The 79,000 ton liner was 340 meters/1,029 feet long.

June 12

*The three year war between Paraguay and Bolivia over the disputed Chaco region ended.

September 2

*A hurricane destroyed the Florida East Coast Railroad line between Key West and Florida City and killed 400 people.

October 3

*Italian troops invaded Ethiopia. 

November 8

*Italian troops captured the Ethiopian provincial capital Makale. 

November 18

*The League of Nations imposed economic sanctions on Italy in retaliation for Italy's invasion of Ethiopia.

December 14

*Thomas Masaryk (age 85), the first President of Czechoslovakia, resigned and was succeeded by Eduard Benes.  

December 18

*President Gomez (age 78) of Venezuela died.  During his twenty-six year dictatorship, Venezuela became a major oil producer.

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*Hitler denounced the Versailles Treaty clauses concerning German disarmament and created the Luftwaffe to give Germany air superiority.  

*Pursuant to an edict of the Shah, Persia was to henceforth be called "Iran".

*President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the United States Social Security Act.

*Huey Long, a United States Senator from Louisiana, was assassinated in the Louisiana Capitol Building.