The World of Indiana Jones: 1935

Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom is a prequel to the 1981 hit film Raiders of the Lost Ark. The film takes place in 1935 and is set mainly in two locations, China and India.

To understand the world in which Indiana Jones lived, let's take a look at the year 1935, when Franklin Roosevelt was U.S. President and a stamp only cost $0.03

January

* January 2 - The trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, accused of the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., begins in Flemington, New Jersey. On February 13, Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death.

* January 8 - Elvis Presley is born in Tupelo, Mississippi.

* January 11 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.

* January 13 - A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.

* January 16 - FBI kills Barker gang, including Ma Barker, in a shootout.

* January 19 - Coopers Inc. sells the world's first briefs.

* January 28 - Iceland becomes the first country to legalize abortion on medical grounds.

February

* February 15 - The discovery and clinical development of Prontosil, the first broadly effective antibacterial drug, is published in a series of articles in Germany's pre-eminent medical journal, Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, by Gerhard Domagk.

* February 22 - Airplanes are banned from flying over the White House.

March

* March 2 - Porky Pig makes his debut in Looney Tunes's I Haven't Got a Hat.

* March 16 - Adolf Hitler announces German rearmament in violation of the Versailles Treaty.

* March 19 - Riot breaks out in Harlem, NYC after a rumor which claims that police killed a shoplifter in the S. H. Kress & Co. department store circulates.

* March 21 - Persia is renamed Iran.

April

* April 17 - Sun Myung Moon claims to have a revelation from Jesus telling him to complete his mission from almost 2000 years ago.

May

* May 6 - New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

* May 18 - T. E. Lawrence, English soldier (Lawrence of Arabia) dies

* May 24 - The first nighttime Major League Baseball game is played between the Cincinnati Reds and Philadelphia Phillies at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio.

* May 25 - Babe Ruth hits his 714th home run.

* May 31 - 7.1 magnitude Earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan: 40,000 dead.

June

* June 2 - Babe Ruth announces he is going to retire from baseball.

* June 9 - Ho-Umezu Agreement: China's Kuomintang government concedes Japanese military control of north-eastern China.

* June 10 - Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, OH by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith.

* June 12 - Senator Huey Long of Louisiana makes the longest speech on Senate record. The speech took 15½ hours and contained 150,000 words. [1]

* June 13 - James J. Braddock defeats Max Baer at Madison Square Garden Bowl to win boxing heavyweight championship of the world.

* June 18 - Anglo-German Naval Agreement: Britain agrees to a German navy equal to 35% of her own naval tonnage.
July

* July 6 - Tenzin Gyatso the 14th Dali Lama is born.

* July 16 - The world's first parking meters are installed in Oklahoma City.

* July 24 - The dust bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures in Chicago, Illinois to a record-high 109°F (44°C).

August

* August 14 - United States President Franklin Roosevelt signs Social Security Act into law.

September

* September 2 - Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: The strongest hurricane ever to strike the United States landfalls in the Upper Florida Keys as a Category 5 storm with 185 mph winds, killing 423.

* September 13 - Howard Hughes, flying the Hughes H-1 Racer, set the airspeed record of 352 mph (566 km/h).

* September 15 - Nuremberg Laws go into effect in Germany.

* September 30 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Hoover Dam

October

* October 2-3 - Italian army invades Ethiopia under General de Bono (replaced November 11 by Pietro Badoglio)

* October 10 - A tornado destroyed the 160 metre tall wooden radio tower in Langenberg, Germany. As a result of this catastrophe wooden radio towers are phased out.

* October 12 - Luciano Pavarotti is born in Modena, Italy. He goes on to become the greatest tenor in history.

November

* November 5 - Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly.

* November 22 - The China Clipper takes off from Alameda, California in an attempt to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean (the aircraft later reached its destination, Manila, and delivered over 110,000 pieces of mail).

December

* December 9 - American newspaper editor Walter Liggett is killed in a gangland murder plot.

* December 27 - Mao Zedong issues the Wayaopao Manifesto: On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism, calling for a National United Front against Japanese Invasion.

* December 28 - Pravda publishes a letter from Pavel Postyshev, who revives New Year tree tradition in the Soviet Union.

Notable Births

* January 4 - Floyd Patterson, American boxer (d. 2006)
* January 8 - Elvis Presley, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
* January 12 - Kreskin, mentalist
* January 16 - A.J. Foyt, American race car driver
* February 16 - Sonny Bono, American singer, actor, and politician (d. 1998)
* February 25 - Sally Jessy Raphaël, American talk show host
* March 1 - Robert Conrad, American actor
* March 15 - Jimmy Swaggart, American televangelist; Judd Hirsch, American actor
* March 27 - Julian Glover, English actor (Played Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)
* April 21 - Charles Grodin, American actor and journalist
* May 27 - Lee Meriwether, actress
* July 13 - Jack Kemp, American football player and U.S. Vice Presidential candidate
* July 15 - Ken Kercheval, actor
* July 17 - Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
* August 20 - Ron Paul, Influential American, two-time Presidential candidate
* September 29 - Jerry Lee Lewis, American musician
* October 6 - Bruno Sammartino, Italian professional wrestler, former WWE Champion
* October 12 - Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (d. 2007)
* October 20 - Jerry Orbach, American actor - Law & Order (d. 2004)
* November 9 - Bob Gibson, baseball player
* December 1 - Woody Allen, American film director
* December 17 - Cal Ripken, Sr., baseball player and manager (d. 1999)
* December 21 - Phil Donahue, talk show host
* December 30 - Sandy Koufax, baseball player

Sports in 1935
-Detroit Tigers defeat Chicago Cubs in the World Series, 4-2
-Detroit Lions 26-7 New York Giants for the NFL championship
-Montreal Maroons defeat Toronto Maple Leafs 3-0 to win the Stanley Cup

Come back tomorrow for 1936. Also, if you've been reading these Indiana Jones articles, let me know about it and what you think in the comments.