Events from the year 1935 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D-New York) Vice President: John Nance Garner (D-Texas) Chief Justice: Charles Evans Hughes (New York) Speaker of the House of Representatives: Joseph W. Byrns, Sr. (D-Tennessee) Senate Majority Leader: Joseph Taylor Robinson (D-Arkansas) Congress: 73rd (until January 3), 74th (starting January 3)
Events
January–March
January 3 – The trial of Richard Hauptmann, accused of the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr., begins in Flemington, New Jersey. January 4 – Dry Tortugas National Park is established in the Florida Keys, United States. January 11 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California. January 16 – The FBI kills the Barker Gang, including Ma Barker, in a shootout. January 19 – Coopers Inc. sells the world's first men's briefs, as "jockeys", in Chicago. February 7 – First known published use of the term "Ivy League". February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the Lindbergh kidnapping. February 22 – Airplanes are banned from flying over the White House. February 23 – The classic Mickey Mouse cartoon The Band Concert is released by United Artists in the United States. February 27 – The 7th Academy Awards, hosted by Irvin S. Cobb, are presented at Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, with Frank Capra's It Happened One Night becoming the first film to win all of the top five award categories, including Outstanding Production and Best Director. Victor Schertzinger's One Night of Love receives the most nominations with six. March 2 – Porky Pig makes his debut in Looney Tunes's I Haven't Got a Hat. March 19 – Harlem riot of 1935: A race riot breaks out in Harlem (New York City), after a rumor circulates that a teenage Puerto Rican shoplifter in the S. H. Kress & Co. department store has been brutally beaten.
April–June
April 1 – The North American NA-16, prototype of the North American T-6 Texan or Harvard flying trainer, flies for the first time. April 14 – Dust Bowl: The great Black Sunday dust storm (made famous by Woody Guthrie in his "dust bowl ballads") hits hardest in eastern New Mexico and Colorado, and western Oklahoma. April 16 – Fibber McGee and Molly debuts on NBC Radio. May 6 – New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA). May 24 – The first nighttime Major League Baseball game is played, between the Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies at Crosley Field in Cincinnati. May 27 – Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (the "Sick Chicken Case"): The Supreme Court of the United States declares that the National Industrial Recovery Act, a major component of the New Deal, is unconstitutional. May 30 – Eventual Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth appears in his last career game, playing for the Boston Braves in Philadelphia against the Phillies. May 30 - June 2 – 1935 Republican River flood (called "Nebraska's Deadliest Flood") June – National Youth Administration established. June 10 – Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio by Bill W. (William G. Wilson) and Dr. Dr. Bob (Smith). June 12–13 – Senator Huey Long of Louisiana makes the longest speech on Senate record, taking 15 hours and containing 150,000 words. June 13 – James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer at Madison Square Garden Bowl in New York City to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world.