Ruggles of Red Gap
Release year: 1935
Directed by: Leo McCarey
Starring: Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charles Ruggles, Zasu Pitts
Country: United States of America
February 1935 calendar
Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in February 1935.
The US president was Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Ramsay MacDonald (Labour), Pope Pius XI was leading the Catholic Church.
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Historical Events
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Events
- 01 Feb 1935 James T Farrell finishes his Studs Lonigan trilogy
- 02 Feb 1935 Lie detector first used in US court (Portage, Wisconsin).
- 06 Feb 1935 Monopoly board game goes on sale for 1st time
- 07 Feb 1935 Monopoly invented by Charles Darrow symbol Rich Uncle Pennybags
- 09 Feb 1935 US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson.
- 10 Feb 1935 1st US streamlined electric RR engine begins service
- 11 Feb 1935 First US airplane flight with auto slung beneath the fuselage, New York.
- 12 Feb 1935 Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean.
- 13 Feb 1935 First US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, in Cleveland, Ohio.
- 15 Feb 1935 The discovery and clinical development of Prontosil, the first broadly effective antibacterial drug, is published in a series of articles in Germany's pre-eminent medical journal, ''Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift'', by Gerhard Domagk.
- 20 Feb 1935 Karoline Mikkelson is 1st woman on Antarctica
- 22 Feb 1935 Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House.
- 26 Feb 1935 RADAR-Radio Detection and Ranging 1st demonstrated
- 28 Feb 1935 Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit
Famous Birthday
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American entertainer who did a show business act with his partner, Cher, whom he married on 10/27/1964.
American singer and guitarist (d. 1971).
Panamanian strongman general and dictator who controls law enforcement, immigration and customs.
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Famous Deaths
Swiss musicologist, dies at 61.
British Author (Gospels of Anarchy), dies at 78.
Governor-General of Netherlands Indies (1909-16), dies at age 73.
Brazilian composer (Born 1847).
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Movies
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Gold Diggers of 1935
Release year: 1935
Directed by: Busby Berkeley
Starring: Dick Powell, Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Stuart, Alice Brady
Country: United States of America
The Little Colonel
Release year: 1935
Directed by: David Butler
Starring: Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore, Evelyn Venable, John Lodge
Country: United States of America
Roberta
Release year: 1935
Directed by: William A. Seiter
Starring: Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott
Country: United States of America
The Wedding Night
Release year: 1935
Directed by: King Vidor
Starring: Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, Ralph Bellamy, Helen Vinson