1935 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1935 in the United Kingdom. This royal Silver Jubilee year sees a General Election and changes in the leadership of both the Conservative and Labour parties.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - King George V
- Prime Minister - Ramsay MacDonald, national coalition (until 7 June), Stanley Baldwin, national coalition
[edit] Events
- 1 January - Ramblers' Association founded.
- 26 February - In Daventry, Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrates the use of radar.[1]
- 12 March - Speed limit in built-up areas reduced to 30 m.p.h.[2]
- 18 March - Britain protest at Germany's introduction of conscription
- April - Reflective cat's-eyes first used on British roads.[2]
- 6 May - Silver Jubilee celebrations for King George V.[2]
- 22 May - The government announces plans to treble the the size of the air force in the next two years
- 14 May - Northamptonshire gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proves to be their last victory for 99 matches, easily a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win will not be until 29 May 1939.
- 31 May - The driving test becomes compulsory.[1]
- 7 June - Ramsay MacDonald retires; Stanley Baldwin takes over as Prime Minister.[2]
- 18 June - Anglo-German Naval Agreement: Britain agrees to a German navy equal to 35% of her own naval tonnage.[2]
- June - Alfred Hitchcock's film of The 39 Steps released in the UK.
- 12 July - Rioting breaks out in Belfast following Orange parades; by the end of August eight Protestants and five Catholics have been killed, hundreds injured and over 2,000 homes destroyed (almost all Catholic).[3][4]
- 29 July - T.E Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom is published posthumously
- 30 July - Allen Lane founds Penguin Books to publish the first mass market paperbacks in Britain.[1][2]
- 18 August - Last service held in Mardale church in the Lake District prior to the village's flooding to create Manchester Corporation's Haweswater Reservoir.[5]
- 3 September - Malcolm Campbell sets a new land speed record of 484.620 km per hour (301.129 mph) at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, driving the Campbell-Railton Blue Bird.[1]
- 12 September - An underground explosion at North Gawber (Lidgett) colliery, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, kills nineteen.[6]
- October - First steel produced from new works at Corby.
- 8 October - Clement Attlee is appointed as interim leader of the Labour Party in succession to George Lansbury.[7]
- 4 November - Opening of Hornsey Town Hall, London, designed by Reginald Uren, the first major UK building in the International style.
- 6 November - Maiden flight of the RAF's Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft.[1]
- 14 November - In the General Election, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin is returned to office at the head of a National Government led by the Conservative Party with a large but reduced majority.
- 16 November - The National government, now Tory in all but name, is back in power with a huge majority
- 26 November
- In the Labour Party leadership election, Clement Attlee is confirmed as leader.[2]
- Release of Scrooge, the first all-talking full-length film version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Sir Seymour Hicks in the title rôle.[8]
- 10 December - James Chadwick wins the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the neutron".[9]
- 12 December - Opening of The De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill on Sea in East Sussex, designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff in the International style.[10][11][12][13]
- 18 December - Samuel Hoare resigns as foreign secretary; replaced by Anthony Eden.
[edit] Undated
- Rowntree's of York produce their first Chocolate Crisp bars, which will in 1937 be renamed Kit Kat.
- Bede sanctified by the Catholic Church.[14]
- Bahram wins the English Triple Crown by finishing first in the Epsom Derby, 2,000 Guineas and St Leger.
[edit] Publications
- Enid Bagnold's novel National Velvet.
- Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels Three Act Tragedy and Death in the Clouds.
- Graham Greene's novel England Made Me.
- Georgette Heyer's Regency romance Regency Buck.
- Christopher Isherwood's novel Mr Norris Changes Trains.
- John Masefield's novel The Box of Delights.
- Caroline Spurgeon's study Shakespeare's Imagery, and what it tells us.
- P. G. Wodehouse's short story collection Blandings Castle and Elsewhere.
[edit] Births
- 4 January - Audrey Wise, politician (died 2000)
- 18 January - Jon Stallworthy, poet
- 24 January - Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (died 2008)
- 25 January - J. G. Farrell, novelist (died 1979)
- 27 January - D. M. Thomas, novelist, poet and translator
- 28 January - David Lodge, author
- 4 February - Alex Harvey, Scottish Musician (died 1982)
- 17 February - Christina Pickles, actress
- 23 March - Barry Cryer, comedian
- 28 March - Michael Parkinson, journalist and television presenter
- 19 April - Dudley Moore, actor, comedian and musician (died 2002)
- 25 April - April Ashley, model
- 8 May - Jack Charlton, footballer
- 10 May - Terrance Dicks, television writer
- 17 May - Dennis Potter, writer (died 1994)
- 1 June - Norman Foster, architect and designer
- 2 June - Roger Brierley, actor (died 2005)
- 5 June - Anne Pashley, track and field sprinter
- 18 June - John Spencer, snooker player (died 2006)
- 19 June - Derren Nesbitt, actor
- 9 July - Michael Williams, actor (died 2001)
- 11 July - Oliver Napier, politician (died 2011)
- 15 July - William G. Stewart, television producer and presenter
- 27 July - Billy McCullough, footballer
- 28 July - Simon Dee, television presenter (died 2009)
- 13 August - Rod Hull, entertainer (died 1999)
- 29 September - Bruce Tulloh, long-distance runner
- 1 October - Julie Andrews, singer and actress
- 9 October - Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
- 13 November - George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 27 November - Verity Lambert, television producer (died 2007)
- 14 December - Anthony Wilden, author and social theorist, noted translator of Jaques Lacan
[edit] Deaths
- 7 February - Lewis Grassic Gibbon, writer (born 1901)
- 15 February - Basil Hall Chamberlain, Japanologist (born 1850)
- 18 May - T. E. Lawrence, soldier (Lawrence of Arabia) (born 1888)
- 28 September - W.K. Dickson, inventor (born 1860)
- 20 October - Arthur Henderson, politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1863)
- 3 December - Princess Victoria, daughter of King Edward VII (born 1868)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ^ a b c d e f g Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 379–380. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ Stewart, A. T. Q. (1981). Edward Carson. Gill’s Irish Lives. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.
- ^ "Parades and Marches - Chronology 2: Historical Dates and Events". Conflict Archive on the Internet (CAIN). http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/issues/parade/chpa2.htm. Retrieved 2011-02-22.
- ^ Berry, Geoffrey (1984). Mardale Revisited: the story of Haweswater. Kendal: Westmorland Gazette. pp. 15–17.
- ^ "North Gawber (Lidgett), Barnsley, Yorkshire, 12th September 1935". cmhrc.co.uk. http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/cms/document/1935_38.pdf. Retrieved 31 August 2010.
- ^ "Leaders of the Labour Party". United Kingdom Election Results. http://www.election.demon.co.uk/lableader.html. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
- ^ Scrooge at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ James Chadwick "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1935". http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1935/chadwick-bio.html James Chadwick. Retrieved 2008-01-29.
- ^ "Modernist". Building Opinions. http://www.buildingopinions.com/Archive/DE/delawarrpavilion.html.
- ^ "Modernist style". De La Warr Pavilion. http://www.delawarrpavilion.com/default.aspx.
- ^ "Modern movement". De La Warr Pavilion. http://www.delawarrpavilion.net.
- ^ "De La Warr Pavilion Sussex by Mendelsohn and Chermayeff". http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/delawarr/index.htm.
- ^ Campbell, J. (2004). "Bede (673/4–735)" (fee required). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1922. Retrieved 2011-01-20.
