May 1935

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The following events occurred in May 1935:

May 1, 1935 (Wednesday)

May 2, 1935 (Thursday)

May 3, 1935 (Friday)

  • A worldwide peace broadcast, the first of its kind, was held to honor Jane Addams. Representatives of Britain, Japan, Russia and France gathered in Washington's McPherson Square to introduce speakers broadcasting from their respective countries. Addams herself participated by speaking from a radio broadcasting studio as well.

May 4, 1935 (Saturday)

May 5, 1935 (Sunday)

May 6, 1935 (Monday)

May 7, 1935 (Tuesday)

  • Italy mobilized three more divisions.
  • Liberia had a constitutional referendum alongside general elections. The referendum confirmed special legislation approving a term extension for the President.
  • Born: Isobel Warren, author and journalist, in Canada

May 8, 1935 (Wednesday)

May 9, 1935 (Thursday)

  • The British government ordered aircraft manufacturers to increase their production to the fullest capacity and not to fill any foreign orders for aircraft without the Air Ministry's approval.
  • The John Ford-directed drama film The Informer was released.

May 10, 1935 (Friday)

  • King George V and Queen Mary surprised their subjects by riding around the poorer districts of South London unannounced. The royal car was mobbed at several crossings by cheering crowds.

May 11, 1935 (Saturday)

  • Nazi Germany ordered that all new or altered buildings would be required to consult the Air Protection League on the possibility of constructing bomb- and gas-proof cellars.
  • Omaha won the Preakness Stakes.
  • Born: Doug McClure, actor, in Glendale, California (d. 1995)

May 12, 1935 (Sunday)

May 13, 1935 (Monday)

May 14, 1935 (Tuesday)

May 15, 1935 (Wednesday)

  • The Moscow Metropolitan subway officially opened for public operation. Joseph Stalin made a speech thanking the men and women who completed the subway in record time.
  • Italian newspapers began a campaign of words clearly meant to justify an Italian invasion and takeover of Ethiopia. Il Giornale d'Italia wrote that Ethiopia had an "incapacity to comprehend and assimilate the elementary values of civilization", making it necessary for the country to undergo "an organization which will deprive it of the possibility of menacing any more neighboring colonies – above all, Italian interests which have been attacked."
  • Gustaaf Deloor of Belgium won the 1st first Vuelta a España bicycle race.

May 16, 1935 (Thursday)

May 17, 1935 (Friday)

May 18, 1935 (Saturday)

  • The Soviet airliner Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky collided with a stunt plane and exploded over Moscow, killing 49. It was the worst air disaster involving a passenger plane in history up to that time.
  • Serfdom was abolished in Ethiopia.
  • Lithuanian President Antanas Smetona commuted to life imprisonment the death sentences of the four Memel Nazis convicted in March for plotting an uprising to return Memel to Germany.

May 19, 1935 (Sunday)

May 20, 1935 (Monday)

  • Haile Selassie sent his most strongly-worded telegram yet to the League of Nations, saying "It is patent that Italy is illegally occupying an important part of Ethiopian territory. She has recently initiated a campaign of propaganda to endeavor to justify her occupation of Ethiopian territory as a mission of civilization, and her aggression and rapacity against our people as the treatment due a barbarous nation. No agreement will be possible by diplomatic means to arrange for a genuinely impartial examination in Italy's present state of mind."
  • The Roger Babson statistical organization announced the results of a survey that indicated Franklin D. Roosevelt would win re-election in 1936, although nearly half of those surveyed said they had lost confidence in the New Deal.
  • Born: José Mujica, 40th President of Uruguay, in Montevideo

May 21, 1935 (Tuesday)

  • The Reichstag convened for just the fifth time since the Nazi takeover. Hitler gave a speech outlining a 13-point plan for disarmament and improvement of international relations, though he remained adamant that Germany would only limit the size of its military to the same degree that other nations did.
  • Germany passed a new conscription law providing for one year of military service for all males between 18 and 45.
  • The Reichswehr was renamed the Wehrmacht.
  • The U.S. Supreme Court decided Sinclair & Carrol Co. v. Interchemical Corp.
  • Died: Jane Addams, 74, social worker, public philosopher, writer and activist

May 22, 1935 (Wednesday)

  • Stanley Baldwin, admitting that Britain faced a "time of emergency", told the House of Commons that the Royal Air Force would be tripled in size over the next two years to give it 1,500 aircraft by 1937, the same number that Germany said it intended to have. Baldwin acknowledged Hitler's speech of the previous day by saying its proposals would "receive the fullest and fairest consideration."
  • President Roosevelt vetoed the Patman Bonus Bill. The president appeared before the House and gave his reasons for doing so, warning that it invited "an ultimate reckoning in uncontrollable prices and in the destruction of the value of savings, that will strike most cruelly those like the veterans who seem to be temporarily benefited." The House then voted to override the presidential veto, 322 to 98, sending it back to the Senate.
  • Germany called up all able-bodied males born in 1914 and 1915 for medical examinations starting June 1, for military service beginning November 1.
  • Born: Barry Rogers, salsa musician and jazz fusion trombonist, in the Bronx, New York (d. 1991)

May 23, 1935 (Thursday)

  • The U.S. Senate sustained President Roosevelt's veto, 54-40.
  • Hitler underwent a secret operation to remove a polyp from his vocal folds. He would not make another public address for three months.

May 24, 1935 (Friday)

May 25, 1935 (Saturday)

May 26, 1935 (Sunday)

  • Several were injured in a riot at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris. A group of Nationalists had gathered to see Maxime Weygand preside at a ceremony rekindling the tomb's eternal flame, cheering him on with shouts of "put Weygand in power!" The riot was set off by someone failing to doff his hat.

May 27, 1935 (Monday)

May 28, 1935 (Tuesday)

May 29, 1935 (Wednesday)

May 30, 1935 (Thursday)

May 31, 1935 (Friday)


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