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October 5, 1935 (Saturday) U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt invoked the August 31 Neutrality Act to place an arms embargo on both Italy and Ethiopia. Collingwood defeated South Melbourne in the 39th Victorian Football League Grand Final. October 6, 1935 (Sunday) Italian forces captured Adwa.
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3 octobre : sous prétexte d’un incident de frontière à Ual-Ual près de la Somalie, les Italiens de Pietro Badoglio envahissent l’Éthiopie. Début de la guerre italo-éthiopienne (fin en 1936). La SDN condamne l’Italie et prend des sanctions. Le négus doit s’exiler et l’Éthiopie est réunie à l’Érythrée et à la Somalie ...
1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1935th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 935th year of the 2nd millennium, the 35th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1930s decade.
Revolutionary and Chairman of the Communist Party Mao Zedong. Oct 20 400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid. Oct 20 Anti-fascist People's Front forms in Brussels. Oct 20 Communist forces end their Long March at Yan'an, in Shaanxi, China, bringing Mao Zedong to prominence.
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1. 1066 – Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conquerortwo months later. 2. 1211 – Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris. 3. 1529 – The Siege of Viennaends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion. 4. 1582 – Adoption of the Gregorian calendarbegin...
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1. 1651 – Qing forces capture the island of Zhoushan. Zhu Yihai, Prince of Lu, resident of the island and regent of the Southern Ming, flees to Kinmen. 2. 1783 – The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier. 3. 1793 – Queen Marie Antoinetteof France is tried and convicted of treason. 4. 1815 – Napoleonbegins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. 5. 1863 – American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first subm...
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1. 1910 – Airship Americais launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft. 2. 1923 – The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic. 3. 1928 – The airship Graf Zeppelin completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States. 4. 1932 – Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight. 5. 1939 – The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed LaGuardia A...
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1. 99 BC (probable) – Lucretius, Roman poet and philosopher (d. 55 BCE) 2. 70 BC – Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC) 3. 1265 – Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan(d. 1307) 4. 1440 – Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse, German noble (d. 1483) 5. 1471 – Konrad Mutian, German epigrammatist and academic (d. 1526) 6. 1542 – Akbar, Mughal emperor (d. 1605) 7. 1561 – Richard Field, English cathedral dean (d. 1616) 8. 1564 – Henry Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg(d. 1613) 9. 1599 – Cornelis de Graeff...
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1. 1910 – Stanley Ketchel, American boxer (b. 1886) 2. 1917 – Mata Hari, Dutch dancer and spy (b. 1876) 3. 1918 – Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian guru and saint (b. 1838) 4. 1925 – Dolores Jiménez y Muro, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1848?) 5. 1930 – Herbert Henry Dow, Canadian-American businessman, founded the Dow Chemical Company(b. 1866) 6. 1934 – Raymond Poincaré, French lawyer and politician, 10th President of France(b. 1860) 7. 1940 – Lluís Companys, Catalan lawyer and politician, President of...
Anniversary of the 1987 Coup d'État (Burkina Faso)Christian feast day:The New York Times: On This DayItaly began its World War II offensive when Benito Mussolini ordered his troops into Abyssinia in October 1935, then renounced its membership in the League of Nations in May 1936. The World War II timeline below summarizes these events and other important events that occurred from October 1935 to July 17, 1936.
