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1935
 
    
US seismologist Charles Richter devises a scale for measuring the magnitude of earthquakes       
1935
 
    
Adolf Hitler gives Karl Dönitz, a submarine commander from World War I, responsibility for Germany's U-boat programme       
c. 1935
 
   
The Austrian zoologist Konrad Lorenz describes his experiments on young geese, with their capacity to imprint on human beings      
1935
 
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Adolf Hitler promulgates a law prohibiting any sexual relationship between Jews and 'Aryans'      
1935
 
    
Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges publishes A Universal History of Infamy, one of the first examples of magic realism       
1935
 
   
French cabaret singer Edith Gassion acquires the nickname la môme piaf ('the little sparrow'), and so becomes Edith Piaf      
1935
 
    
The mighty Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam in 1947) is completed on the Colorado River       
1935
 
    
Marie Rambert's London-based company, deriving originally from her school, takes the name Ballet Rambert       
1935
 
    
Leningrad's opera and ballet company is renamed the Kirov, in memory of the city's recently assassinated commissar       
1935
 
   
US industrialist Howard Hughes sets a new speed record of 352 mph, flying a plane designed by himself