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==Events==
==Events==

==January-March====
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, Ohio.
May 27 – Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (aka the "Sick Chicken Case"): The U.S. Supreme Court declares the National Industrial Recovery Act 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.
June 10 – Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.
June 12 – Senator Huey Long of Louisiana makes the longest speech on Senate record, taking 15½ hours and containing 150,000 words.[1]
June 13 – James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer at Madison Square Garden Bowl to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world.



===April–June===
* April 14 – [[Dust Bowl]]: The great [[Black Sunday (storm)|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, Ohio]].
* May 27 – ''[[Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States]]'' (aka the "Sick Chicken Case"): The [[U.S. Supreme Court]] declares the [[National Industrial Recovery Act]] unconstitutional.
* May 30 – Eventual [[Baseball Hall of Fame]]r [[Babe Ruth]] appears in his last career game, playing for the [[Atlanta Braves|Boston Braves]] in [[Philadelphia]] against the [[Philadelphia Phillies|Phillies]].
* June 10 – [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] is founded in [[Akron, Ohio]] by [[William G. Wilson]] and Dr. [[Bob Smith (doctor)|Robert Smith]].
* June 12 &ndash; [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Huey Long]] of [[Louisiana]] makes the longest speech on Senate record, taking 15½ hours and containing 150,000 words.<ref>[http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Huey_Long_Filibusters.htm U.S. Senate]</ref>
* June 13 &ndash; [[James J. Braddock]] defeats [[Max Baer (boxer)|Max Baer]] at [[Madison Square Garden Bowl]] to win the heavyweight [[boxing]] championship of the world.

===July–September===
* July 5 – The [[National Labor Relations Act]] becomes law in the United States.
* July 16 – The world's first [[parking meter]]s are installed in [[Oklahoma City]].
* July 16 – [[Deportivo Saprissa]] is founded by Roberto Fernández in his shoe store in El Barrio Los Angeles in [[San Jose, Costa Rica]].
* July 24 – The [[Dust Bowl]] heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures in [[Chicago]] to a record-high {{convert|109|F|C}}
* July 27 &ndash; [[Federal Writers' Project]] is established in the United States.
* August 5 &ndash; The [[Leo Burnett]] Advertising Agency opens in Chicago, Illinois.
* August 14 &ndash; [[President of the United States|United States President]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] signs the [[Social Security Act]] into law.
* August 15 &ndash; Humorist [[Will Rogers]] and aviator [[Wiley Post]] are killed when Post's plane crashes shortly after takeoff near [[Barrow, Alaska]].
* September 2 &ndash; [[Labor Day Hurricane of 1935]]: The strongest hurricane ever to strike the United States makes landfall in the Upper [[Florida Keys]] killing 423. It is rated as a Category 5 storm with 185&nbsp;mph winds.
* September 8 &ndash; [[Carl Weiss]] kills [[Huey Long]], [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Louisiana]] ("The Kingfish"), in the [[Louisiana]] Capitol Building in [[Baton Rouge]].
* September 24 &ndash; [[Earl W. Bascom|Earl Bascom]] and his brother Weldon Bascom produce the first night [[rodeo]] held outdoors under electric lights at [[Columbia, Mississippi]].
* September 30 &ndash; U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] dedicates [[Hoover Dam]].

===October–December===
* November 22 &ndash; The ''[[China Clipper]]'' takes off from [[Alameda, California]] in an attempt to deliver the first [[airmail]] cargo across the [[Pacific Ocean]] (the aircraft later reaches its destination, [[Manila]], and delivers over 110,000 pieces of [[mail]]).
* November 30 &ndash; The 1935 [[United Kingdom|British]]-made film ''[[Scrooge (1935 film)|Scrooge]]'', the first all-talking film version of [[Charles Dickens]] classic, opens in the U.S. after its British release. [[Seymour Hicks]] plays Scrooge, a role he has played onstage hundreds of times. The film is criticized by some for not showing all of the ghosts physically, and quickly fades into obscurity. Widespread interest does not surface until the film is shown on [[television]] in the 1980s, in very shabby-looking prints. It is eventually restored on [[DVD]].
* December 9 &ndash; American newspaper editor [[Walter Liggett]] is killed in a gangland murder plot.
* December 17 &ndash; [[Douglas Aircraft Company|Douglas]] DST, prototype of the [[Douglas DC-3]] airliner, first flies. More than 16,000 of the model will eventually be produced.

===Undated===
* 4 million members of [[trade union]]s in the USA.
* [[Mary McLeod Bethune]] founds the [[National Council of Negro Women]].

===Ongoing===
* [[Lochner era]] (c. 1897–c. 1937)
* [[Dust Bowl]] (1930–1936)
* [[New Deal]] (1933–1938)


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