(Wednesday, January 29, 1936) — The first inductees of baseball’s Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named today in Cooperstown, New York (although a public announcement was delayed until Feb. 2, 1936).

Video: 'The Death Of His Majesty King George V (1936)'

(Monday, January 20, 1936, at 11:55 p.m. GMT) — Britain’s King George V, 70, died tonight in his bedroom at Sandringham House in Norfolk after his physician, Lord Dawson of Penn, injected the mortally ill monarch with morphine and cocaine to hasten his death.

The king was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward VIII, who would abdicate the throne 11 months later to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.

Video: 'Pan American Clipper (Sikorsky S-42) 1935 Pan American Airway, aka Flying Clipper, Pan Am Clipper'

(Friday, November 21, 1935, 3:46 p.m. PST) — A flying boat, the China Clipper, took off today from Alameda, California, carrying more than 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight.

Video: 'AFL vs. CIO split in 1935'

(Saturday, November 9, 1935) — United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization (later renamed the Congress of Industrial Organizations) today in Washington.

Video: 'The surprising history behind the board game "Monopoly"'

(Tuesday, November 5, 1935) — Parker Brothers, an American toy and game manufacturer and brand, today began marketing Monopoly, a board game designed to demonstrate that an economy which rewards wealth creation is better than one in which monopolists work under few constraints.

Video: 'Dutch Schultz 5 of 5 - Menace to Society' (Oct. 23, 1935, at 2:12)

(Wednesday, October 23, 1935, 10:15 p.m. EST) — Mobster Dutch Schultz, 34, was shot and mortally wounded with three other men during a gangland hit tonight at the Palace Chophouse in Newark, New Jersey. Schultz died the following day.