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February 22 – Frank Capra's It Happened One Night, starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, is released. It becomes a smash hit and the first of Capra's great screen classics. It becomes the first film to win all 5 of the major Academy Awards – Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture. Gable and Colbert ...
1934 – Tydings–McDuffie Act; 1934 – John Dillinger killed; 1934 – Indian Reorganization Act; 1934 – Share the Wealth society founded by Huey Long; 1934 - The first federal prisoners arrived at Alcatraz; 1935 – Works Progress Administration; 1935 – The F.B.I. is established with J. Edgar Hoover as its first director. 1935 ...
February 27 – The 7th Academy Awards, hosted by Irvin S. Cobb, are presented at Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, with Frank Capra's It Happened One Night becoming the first film to win all of the top five award categories, including Outstanding Production and Best Director. Victor Schertzinger's One Night of Love receives the most nominations ...
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.
By 1934, they had reached the Great Plains, stretching from North Dakota to Texas and from the Mississippi River Valley to the Rocky Mountains. [6] The Dust Bowl as an area received its name following the disastrous Black Sunday storm in April 1935 when reporter Robert E. Geiger referred to the region as "the Dust Bowl" in his account. [5]
Saudi–Yemeni War (March 1934 – May 12, 1934) – fought between Saudi Arabia and the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen; Second Italo-Ethiopian War (October 3, 1935 – February 19, 1937) Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945) – fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan.
The 7th Academy Awards, honoring the best films for 1934, was held on February 27, 1935, [1] at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Irvin S. Cobb . As of this ceremony, the Academy 's award eligibility period coincided with the calendar year (with temporary exceptions for the 93rd and 94th Academy Awards due to ...
Graph of global conflict deaths from 1900 to 1944 from various sources. This is a list of wars that began between 1900 and 1944.. This period saw the outbreak of World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), which are among the deadliest conflicts in human history, with many of the world's great powers partaking in total war and some partaking in genocides.