Timeline July 1935

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• 1859 – 1935 Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935) Died 12 July 1935, aged 75 Dreyfus was the French army officer whose wrongful conviction for treason caused the Dreyfus Affair. He was exonerated in 1906 and died in Paris.
• 1935 Wimbledon 1935 Men: Fred Perry · Women: Helen Wills Moody Wills Moody's 8th and final Wimbledon title.
• 1935 – 2020 David Prowse (1935-2020) Died 28 November 2020, aged 85 David Prowse was an English bodybuilder and actor who physically portrayed Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, though James Earl Jones supplied the character's voice. He died on 28 November 2020.
• 1935 Billie Holiday records with Teddy Wilson What a Little Moonlight Can Do The start of her classic small-group recordings.
• 1935 National Labor Relations Act Wagner Act guarantees the right to unionise Roosevelt signed the Wagner Act, which guaranteed private-sector workers the right to organise, bargain collectively and strike. It also created the National Labor Relations Board to enforce these rights.
• 1935 First parking meter installed Oklahoma City introduces coin-operated parking The world's first parking meter, designed by Carl Magee, was installed in Oklahoma City. Coin-operated parking meters soon spread to cities worldwide.
• 1935 – 2019 Diahann Carroll (1935-2019) Died 4 October 2019, aged 84 Diahann Carroll was an American actress and singer who became the first Black woman to star in her own non-servant television series with Julia in 1968. She won a Tony Award and was Oscar-nominated for Claudine. She died in Los Angeles of cancer.
• 1935 – 1953 Donald Sutherland born in Saint John Donald McNichol Sutherland is born on 17 July 1935 at the Saint John General Hospital in New Brunswick, Canada. His father, Frederick McLea Sutherland, runs the local gas, electricity and bus company; his mother, Dorothy Isobel McNichol, is of Scottish descent. As a child Donald suffers from rheumatic fever, hepatitis and polio, leaving one leg shorter than the other. The family lives first in Hampton, then moves back to Saint John, then to Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, when he is 12. At 14 he gets his first job as a news correspondent for local radio station CKBW.
• 1935 – present Pat Oliphant Political Cartoonist Australian-born American political cartoonist who was the most widely syndicated editorial cartoonist in the world for decades, with his work appearing in over 500 newspapers. He won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1967 and revolutionised the art form by introducing a cinematic horizontal format and a devastating satirical wit. His trademark penguin, Punk, offered sardonic commentary from the margins of his cartoons. He skewered every president from Lyndon B. Johnson to Donald Trump across a career spanning over fifty years.
• 1935 Pat Oliphant born in Adelaide Born Patrick Bruce Oliphant in Maylands, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
• 1935 Seventh World Congress of the Comintern Communists adopt the Popular Front strategy The Communist International met in Moscow and dropped its policy of attacking social democrats. Georgi Dimitrov set out a new line calling for broad anti-fascist Popular Fronts. The shift shaped left-wing politics in France and Spain.
• 1935 Penguin Books launched Allen Lane publishes the first Penguin paperbacks Allen Lane released the first ten Penguin paperbacks at sixpence each, including Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. The cheap, well-designed reprints made quality books affordable for a mass readership.