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NOTEWORTHY EVENTS - 1935

* Italicized events actually happened. If the event is partially italicized, the parts in normal type have been changed for this reality. The changes could be extremely minor or quite significant.

• January 4 - The Biscuit Uprising: As the Depression wanes across most of the world, Great Britain sink deeper into poverty. Unemployment reaches a staggering 28%. Figures of the aging King Arthur and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin are hung in effigy by an angry mob on New Year's Day outside Parliament and police summoned to quell the violence are pelted with stale biscuits, a staple of the lower class diet.
• January 6 - Ferenc Szalasi, Getulio Vargas and Benito Mussolini meet in Naples to discuss future relations between the Magyar Dominion, Brazil and Italy.
• January 7 - The Italian colony of Cyrenaica in Northern Africa is ceded to the Magyar Dominion in the Naples Agreement, a non-aggression pact signed by Italy, Brazil and the Magyar Dominion. Italy and Brazil are also given Privileged Trade Status in the Dominion.
  
• January 8 - Elvis Presley is born in a two room shotgun house in Tupelo, Mississippi.
• January 10 - Jay Berwanger, University of Chicago football star, becomes the first player to ever win the Heisman Trophy.
• January 11 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California
  
  
  Amelia Earhart in the cockpit of her Lockheed Vega
  
• January 22 - Sir Oswald Mosley, of the House of Commons, submits his Mosley Memorandum, a bill calling for extremely high tariffs to protect British industries from international finance, for state nationalization of industry and a program of public works to solve unemployment. Although met with strong opposition, it narrowly passes, vaulting Mosley into the national spotlight and marking him as a "champion of the common man".
  
• January 28 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion on medical grounds.
• February - National Periodical Publications (later known as DC Comics) publishes its first comic book, New Fun Comics, the first comic book featuring original material.
• March - The Kaposvár concentration camp is established; 50,000 detainees of "indeterminable heritage" are shipped in over the next couple of months.
  
• March 2 - King Prajadhipok (Rama VII) of Siam abdicates the throne. He is succeeded by his 9 year old nephew Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII).
• March 11 - In Great Britain, Sir Oswald Mosley publicly calls the Magyar Dominion "a model society to emulate". He begins to dress in a black quasi-military uniform in public. Soon, fellow "blackshirts" begin to appear all over Great Britain.
• March 22 - Joseph Goebbels, the Magyar Dominion's ambassador to Great Britain, meets with Mosley to "discuss philosophies", beginning a relationship between the two that will last for years.
  
  
  Mosley and his close friend, Goebbels
  
  
• Spring - Charles Richter and Beno Gutenberg develop the Richter magnitude scale for quantifying earthquakes.
• April - The Brazilian Navy begins "military maneuvers" in the Northern Caribbean, straying dangerously close to U.S. waters
• April 23 - President Landon orders increased naval patrols in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
  
• May 30 - An earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan - 26,000 dead
• June 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in New York City by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.
• July 5 - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes de facto dictator of fascist Portugal.
  
  
  Salazar in an official state photo
  
  
• July 5 - The National Labor Relations Act, a federal law that protects the rights of most workers in the private sector to organize labor unions, to engage in collective bargaining, and to take part in strikes and other forms of concerted activity in support of their demands, is signed into law by President Alf Landon.
• August - Due to the success of Kaposvár, the Magyar Dominion establishes concentration camps in Debrecen, Thannhausen and Auschwitz.
  
• August 15 - Humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post are killed when Post's plane crashes shortly after takeoff near Barrow, Alaska.
• September 2 - Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: A large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423. It devastates a part of the Keys, breaking the islands' road and rail connections to mainland Florida
  
• September 30 - U.S. President Alf Landon dedicates Kennedy Dam
• October 2-3 - A combined force composed of the Italian and Magyar armies invade Ethiopia under Italian General Emilio de Bono and Admiral Miklos Horthy of the Magyar Dominion.
• October 4 - U.S. President Landon publicly condemns the invasion of Ethiopia and warns against further act of aggression. Neithe the Magyar Dominion nor Italy deign to respond.
• October 31 - Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie abdicates, handing over power to the Magyar Dominion.
  
• November 5 - Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly.
• November 8 - A dozen labor leaders come together to announce the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), an organization charged with pushing the cause for industrial unionism.
• November 14 In the General Election in Britain, Sir Oswald Mosely, radical leader of the Labour Party, defeats Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the Conservative Party in a narrow but shocking decision.