December 1935 calendar

Events

• 05 Dec 1935 National Council of Negro Women forms by Mary McLeod Bethune (New York City, New York).
• 09 Dec 1935 Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in gangland murder.
• 10 Dec 1935 The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded to halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
• 12 Dec 1935 Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.
• 15 Dec 1935 Max Euwe becomes world champion chess player beating Alexander Aljechin.
• 17 Dec 1935 First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
• 20 Dec 1935 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii
• 22 Dec 1935 Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura
• 24 Dec 1935 National Council of Negro Women forms
• 27 Dec 1935 Mao Zedong issues the Wayaopao Manifesto, ''On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism'', calling for a National United Front against the Japanese Invasion.
• 28 Dec 1935 W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in New York City
• 30 Dec 1935 Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia.
• 31 Dec 1935 Charles Darrow patents Monopoly

Famous Birthday

• Woody Allen

  American comedian, writer, actor and film director, screenwriter, playwright and musician, gifted and appealing.

• Dharmendra

  Indian actor producer and politician.

• Omar Bongo

  Gabonese lieutenant and politician President of Gabon (d. 2009).

• Andrea Parisy
• Lee Remick

  Actress (Days of Wine & Roses), dies of cancer at 55.

• Jean-Claude Casadesus

  French conductor, son of actress Gisèle Casadesus.

• Kenneth Ring

  American psychologist, author of acclaimed works on the near-death experience, "Life at Death" 1980 and "Heading Toward Omega" 1984.

• Phil Donahue

  American TV personality, a major talk-show host and pioneer of audience interaction in a flexible, captivating on-air performance.

• Sandy Koufax

  American baseball star who was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.

• Franck Fernandel

  French actor, singer, songwriter, writer, animator and radio producer, who died on the night of 7-8 June 2011.

• Salman of Saudi Arabia
• Gérard Vergez
• John G Avildsen
• Charles Bozon
• Esther Phillips

  American singer known for her R&B vocals, although she was a versatile singer, also performing pop, country, jazz, blues and soul music.

• Geoffrey Dean

  British-Australian astrologer, a Ph.

• George Bowering

  Canadian professor and writer, producing works of fiction, poetry, history and biography.

• Gösta Bredefeldt
• Jack Riley

  American actor, writer, voice-man, mostly comedy.

• Paul Hornung

  American athlete, pro football player, he won the Heisman Trophy in 1956 as a quarterback for Notre Dame.

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Famous Deaths

• Stanley G Weinbaum

  United States -- Sci-fi writer (Martian Odyssey).

• Frans [MJ Francois] Erens

  Literary (Years Gone By), dies at 78.

• John H Aberson

  1st rector of Landbouw high school, dies at 78.

• Alban Maria Johannes Berg

  Composer, dies at 50.

• Bernard Schmidt

  inventor (Schmidt camera), dies.

• Albert Kessel

  is first to die in California gas chamber.

• Princess Victoria

  of the United Kingdom (Born 1868).

• Alban Berg

  Austrian composer.

• Paul Bourget

  French novelist and critic who was a master of the psychological novel and a molder of opinion among French conservative intellectuals in...

• Charles Richet

  French physiologist who initially investigated a variety of subjects such as neurochemistry, digestion, thermoregulation in homeothermic...

• Kurt Tucholsky

  German- Jewish journalist, satirical essayist, poet, and critic, best-known for his cabaret songs.

• Thelma Todd

  American actress, a perky blonde heroine of many two-reel comedies of the early '30s.

• Johan Halvorsen

  Norwegian violinist composer and conductor (Oslo Philharmonic) (d. 1935).

• Martin O'Meara

  Irish-Australian sergeant Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1935).

• Clarence Day

  American author and poet (d. 1935).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Riley-Farley Orchestra - The Music Goes Round and Around
2. Joe Venuti & His Orchestra - Stop, Look, and Listen
3. Benny Goodman & His Orchestra (Vocal Helen Ward) - Eeny Meeny Miney Mo
4. Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - The Music Goes Round and Round
5. Bing Crosby - Silent Night