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 Theatre located at 1645 Broadway, just north of Times Square in New York City, across from the Winter Garden Theatre. Continue reading ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ opens in New York City 90 years ago this hour (Nov 8 1935)
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: 'This Prohibition Era Gangster Went So Rogue The Mob Turned On Him | Our History' (Oct. 23, 1935, at 36:10)
(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. Continue reading Mobster Dutch Schultz shot, mortally wounded in Newark 90 years ago this hour (Oct 23 1935)
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 at 250 West 52nd Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York. Continue reading Gershwin’s ‘Porgy and Bess’ opens on Broadway 90 years ago this hour (Oct 10 1935)
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. Continue reading Detroit Tigers win World Series in six games 90 years ago this hour (Oct 7 1935)
Video: '15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory 'Nuremberg Laws''
(Sunday, September 15, 1935) — Germany’s Reichstag, meeting in special session during the National Socialist Party’s “Day of Freedom,” today passed the so-called Nuremberg Laws, a sweeping set of racial decrees that stripped Jews of citizenship and outlawed marriages between Jews and so-called Aryans. Continue reading German Jews deprived of citizenship by Nuremberg Laws 90 years ago today (Sep 15 1935)
Video: 'The Assassination of Huey Long'
(Tuesday, September 10, 1935, 4:10 a.m. CST) — 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. Continue reading U.S. Senator Huey Long, 42, dies two days after being shot 90 years ago this hour (Sep 10 1935)
Video: 'The Assassination of Huey Long'
(Sunday, September 8, 1935, 9:20 p.m. CST) — 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). Continue reading U.S. Senator Huey Long fatally shot in Baton Rouge 90 years ago this hour (Sep 8 1935)
Video: 'This 1935 Florida Hurricane Has a Devastating Impact'
(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. Continue reading Labor Day hurricane slams Florida Keys, claims 423 lives 90 years ago this hour (Sep 2 1935)
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. Continue reading FDR signs Neutrality Act of 1935 90 years ago today (Aug 31 1935)
