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1935
The 20th Century Almanac · The Thirties

1935

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

Mussolini invaded Ethiopia and Hitler's Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of citizenship as Germany rearmed. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act and the Works Progress Administration into law, while Mutiny on the Bounty took Best Picture.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
Nobel · Literature
The Prize Money Was With 1/3 Allocated T
World Series
Detroit Tigers vs. Chicago Cubs Series:
No. 1 Song
Top TV
Academy · Actor

Sports Highlights

Champions of 1935

Champions

Stanley CupMontreal Maroons vs. Toronto Maple Leafs Series: 3-0 US Open Golf: Sam Parks, Jr. Score: 299 Course: Oakmont CC Location: Oakmont, PA
World SeriesDetroit Tigers vs. Chicago Cubs Series: 4-2

Screen & Television

At the box office & on the air

Top Movies

  1. China Seas
  2. David Copperfield
  3. Forsaking All Others
  4. Goin' to Town
  5. Les Miserables
  6. Lives of a Bengal Lancer
  7. A Midsummer Night's Dream
  8. Mutiny on the Bounty
  9. Roberta
  10. She Married Her Boss Best Picture: "Mutiny on the Bounty" Best Director: John Ford

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Chemistry
The prize was awarded jointly to: JOLIOT, FRƒDƒRIC, France, Institut du Radium, Paris, b. 1900, d. 1958; and his wife JOLIOT-CURIE, IRéNE, France, Institut du Radium, Paris, b. 1897, d. 1956: "in recognition of their synthesis of new radioa
Literature
The prize money was with 1/3 allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize section
Peace
OSSIETZKY, CARL VON, Germany, b. 1888, d. 1938: Journalist (with Die WeltbŸhne, among others), pacifist
Physiology or Medicine
SPEMANN, HANS, Germany, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, b. 1869, d. 1941: "for his discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development"
Physics
CHADWICK, Sir JAMES, Great Britain, Liverpool University, b. 1891, d. 1974: "for the discovery of the neutron"

Pulitzer Prizes

Drama
Zoe Akins ... "The Old Maids"
Fiction
Josephine Winslow Johnson ... "Now In November"
History
Charles M. Andrews ... "The Colonial Period of American History"
Public Service
"Sacramento Bee"