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Paul Galvin patented the first car radio built for a Model A Deluxe coupe.
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President Hoover proposes that payments of all inter-governmental war debts and reparations be held up for one year in order to give European countries a "breathing spell."
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Deuterium is a heavy form of hydrogen.
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President Hoover supports armament limitations at the World Disarmament Conference.
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The Nazis win 37% of the vote, becoming the largest party in the Reichstag (German government).
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A fragment is on display in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC.
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Officially titled the Act of March 20, 1933; an Act of Congress that cut the salaries of federal workers and reduced benefit payments to veterans, moves intended to reduce the federal deficit in the United States.
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The detection by Karl Jansky of radio waves from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy is reported in the New York Times. The discovery leads to the birth of radio astronomy.
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The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played at Comiskey Park in Chicago.
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The SEC holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules, and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other activities and organizations.
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The United States occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915, when 330 US Marines landed at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on the authority of US President Woodrow Wilson to safeguard the interests of US corporations. The occupation ended on August 1, 1934, after President Franklin D. Roosevelt reaffirmed an August 1933 disengagement agreement.
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French Foreign minister Pierre Laval and Benito Mussolini sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
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By August 1935 the national debt rose above 30 billion dollars, exceeding by 4 billion the debt incurred during World War I and twice what it had been under President Hoover.
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Charles Richter and Beno Gutenberg develop the Richter magnitude scale for quantifying earthquakes.
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The German zeppelin Hindenburg begins to fall seconds after catching fire.
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Physician Joseph Hamilton injects a leukemia patient with a sodium radioisotope, the first intravenous injection of a human with a radioisotope.
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NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits.
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1935's unemployment rate was at 20.1%, so the depression is starting to end.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's "court packing" plan failed.
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German airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ, killing 36 people.
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The first full-length animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre
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The March of Dimes is established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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President Franklin Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
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1st nuclear fission experiment (splitting of a uranium atom) in the US, in basement of Pupin Hall, Columbia University by a team including Enrico Fermi
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Spanish Dictator and General Francisco Franco conquers Barcelona.
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"The Hound of Baskervilles", starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson for the first time, is released
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As of August 1, 1939, approximately 9 million persons were unemployed in the United States, about one-sixth of the total labor force.
