Video: 'Mutiny on the Bounty' trailer
(Friday, November 8, 1935, doors opened at 9:45 a.m. EST) — Mutiny on the Bounty, a drama film about the sadistic Captain Bligh who drove his men to revolt during a South Seas expedition, opened this morning at the Capitol in New York City.
Directed by Frank Lloyd, the film starred Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Movita Castaneda and Mamo Clark.
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.
Video: 'Porgy and Bess, 1935 silent home movie'
(Thursday, October 10, 1935, 8:10 p.m. EST) — The George Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess, featuring an entire cast of classically trained African-American singers, opened tonight at the Alvin Theatre on Broadway in New York.
The leading roles were played by Todd Duncan and Anne Brown.
Video: '1935 World Series - Chicago Cubs versus Detroit Tigers'
(Monday, October 7, 1935, 3:27 p.m. EST) — The Detroit Tigers won the 1935 World Series today, beating the Chicago Cubs 4-3 at Navin Field in Detroit, Michigan, in the sixth and deciding game.
It was the first of four World Series titles for the Tigers (1935-1984).
Video: 'Nazi Germany - The Nuremberg Laws - Hitler and the Jews N03d'
(Sunday, September 15, 1935) — The Nuremberg Laws, which deprived German Jews of their citizenship, were introduced today by the Reichstag at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. Continue reading German Jews deprived of citizenship by Nuremberg Laws 80 years ago today (Sep 15 1935)
Video: 'Ken Burns' America Huey Long' (early Sept. 1935, at 1:14:21)
(Tuesday, September 10, 1935, 4:06 a.m. local time/6:06 a.m. EDT) — U.S. Senator Huey Long, the “Kingfish” of Louisiana politics, died today in Baton Rouge, two days after being shot in the state Capitol, allegedly by Dr. Carl Weiss.
Video: 'The Assassination of Huey Long'
(Sunday, September 8, 1935, 9:20 p.m. local time/11:20 p.m. EDT) — U.S. Senator Huey Long, the “Kingfish” of Louisiana politics, was shot through the stomach and mortally wounded tonight inside the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge (he would die two days later on Sept. 10, 1935).
The assailant, identified as Dr. Carl Weiss, whose father-in-law Huey had just gerrymandered out of a judgeship, was gunned down by Long’s bodyguards.
Video: 'Weather History: 1935 Labor Day Hurricane'
(Monday, September 2, 1935, 8:30 p.m. EDT) — A Labor Day hurricane, the strongest and most intense hurricane to make landfall in the United States, slammed into the Florida Keys today, claiming more than 400 lives.
Video: 'Senator Nye announces the Neutrality Act of 1935 in an interview in Washington DC...HD Stock Footage'
(Saturday, August 31, 1935, afternoon EDT) — The neutrality resolution providing for an embargo on shipments of arms to countries at war, and laying down other rules of conduct designed to assure the maintenance of a strictly neutral position by the United States, was signed today by President Franklin D. Roosevelt today.
