Timeline March 1935

Events in March 1935 6

• 1841 – 1935 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935) Died 6 March 1935, aged 93 Holmes served on the US Supreme Court for three decades and was famous for his dissents and his clear and present danger test. He died in Washington two days before his 94th birthday.
• 1935 Elected a Fellow of King's at 22 On the strength of one paper Turing is elected to a fellowship on a dissertation proving the central limit theorem — which, unknown to him, had already been proved a decade earlier. The examiners elect him anyway. An undergraduate rhyme of the time runs that nature and nature's laws were hid in night, and God said let Newton be.
• 1935 – 2025 Jimmy Swaggart (1935-2025) Died 1 July 2025, aged 90 American televangelist and gospel performer defrocked by the Assemblies of God in 1988 after a sex scandal.
• 1935 Germany reintroduces conscription Hitler openly repudiates Versailles disarmament Hitler announced the reintroduction of military conscription and a planned army of 36 divisions, in open breach of the Treaty of Versailles. The announcement came days after the existence of the Luftwaffe was revealed. Britain, France and Italy protested but took no action.
• 1935 Persia renamed Iran Reza Shah asks foreign states to use the name Iran At the request of Reza Shah, foreign governments began to use the name Iran in place of Persia from Nowruz 1935. Iran was the name the country's people had long used for their land.
• 1935 Triumph of the Will premieres Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda film Leni Riefenstahl's documentary of the 1934 Nuremberg rally premiered in Berlin. It is regarded as one of the most technically innovative, and most notorious, propaganda films ever made.