Timeline April 1935

Events in April 1935 11

• 1858 – 1935 Adolph Ochs (1858-1935) Died 8 April 1935, aged 77 Ochs was the publisher who turned The New York Times into a leading newspaper and adopted its motto, All the News That's Fit to Print. He died in Chattanooga.
• 1869 – 1935 Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) Died 6 April 1935, aged 65 Robinson was an American poet who won three Pulitzer Prizes. He is known for Richard Cory and his poems about Tilbury Town.
• 1882 – 1935 Emmy Noether (1882-1935) Died 14 April 1935, aged 53 Noether was a German mathematician who shaped modern abstract algebra and proved Noether's theorem, which links symmetries to conservation laws. After fleeing Nazi Germany she died at Bryn Mawr following surgery.
• 1935 1935 World Snooker Championship Joe Davis Title 9 Winner: Joe Davis; Runner-up: Willie Smith. Score: 25–20.
• 1935 – present Roger Sweet Toy designer, creator of He-Man, 1935–2026 Roger Sweet (1935–2026) — the American toy designer who created He-Man and the Masters of the Universe franchise at Mattel, generating over $1.2 billion in worldwide sales from a prototype built from a Big Jim action figure and a handful of clay. He died on 28 April 2026, just weeks before the release of a new live-action He-Man film.
• 1935 Roger Sweet born in Akron, Ohio Roger Sweet is born in Akron, Ohio. His father works as an art director at Firestone Tire & Rubber Company, surrounding Roger with industrial design thinking from childhood and sparking a lifelong interest in the creative possibilities of objects.
• 1935 Stresa Front Britain, France and Italy align against German rearmament At a conference in Stresa, Italy, the leaders of Britain, France and Italy condemned German rearmament and affirmed Austrian independence. The agreement fell apart within months over the Anglo-German Naval Agreement and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia.
• 1935 Black Sunday dust storm Worst dust storm of the Dust Bowl A huge dust storm swept across the southern Great Plains and turned day into night across Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas. The storm moved millions of tons of topsoil. It gave the region the name Dust Bowl.
• 1935 Woody Guthrie lives through Black Sunday Dust Bowl The great dust storm inspires So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh.
• 1935 – 2002 Dudley Moore (1935-2002) Died 27 March 2002, aged 66 Dudley Moore rose through the satirical revue Beyond the Fringe and a long comic partnership with Peter Cook before Hollywood stardom in the films 10 and Arthur. A gifted jazz pianist, he often performed music alongside his acting. His final years were affected by the degenerative brain disease progressive supranuclear palsy.
• 1935 April Constitution of Poland Strong presidency established Poland adopted a new constitution that concentrated power in the presidency. It was signed shortly before the death of Józef Piłsudski. It stayed in force during the government-in-exile after 1939.