Timeline June 1935

Events in June 1935 8

• 1855 – 1935 Ivan Michurin (1855-1935) Died 7 June 1935, aged 79 Michurin was a Russian plant breeder who developed hundreds of fruit varieties. Soviet ideology later held up his work as a model for agricultural science.
• 1935 SS Normandie maiden voyage French liner wins the Blue Riband The French Line's Normandie, then the largest and fastest passenger ship in the world, sailed from Le Havre to New York. It won the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing on its first voyage.
• 1935 French Open 1935 Men: Fred Perry · Women: Hilde Sperling
• 1935 Baldwin succeeds MacDonald Stanley Baldwin becomes British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, in failing health, stepped down as head of the National Government. Stanley Baldwin became Prime Minister for the third time.
• 1935 Alcoholics Anonymous founded Bill Wilson and Bob Smith start AA in Akron AA dates its founding to the day Dr Bob Smith had his last drink after meeting Bill Wilson in Akron, Ohio. Their mutual-support method grew into a worldwide twelve-step fellowship.
• 1935 Chaco War truce Bolivia and Paraguay stop fighting Bolivia and Paraguay signed a ceasefire protocol in Buenos Aires that ended the fighting in the Chaco War, which had begun in 1932. The war killed around 100,000 people, and Paraguay gained most of the disputed Gran Chaco region.
• 1935 – 2020 Christo (1935-2020) Died 31 May 2020, aged 84 Christo was a Bulgarian-born artist known, with his late wife Jeanne-Claude, for large-scale environmental installations such as wrapping the Reichstag and the Pont Neuf. He died on 31 May 2020 while working on a planned wrapping of the Arc de Triomphe.
• 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement Britain accepts German fleet at 35% of its own Britain agreed that Germany could build a navy up to 35 percent of the Royal Navy's tonnage, with parity allowed in submarines. By signing a bilateral deal with Germany, Britain undermined the Stresa Front and the Versailles limits.