1935 IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

'1935 in the United Kingdom:'

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Events from the year '1935 in the United Kingdom'.

Contents

Events

Unknown dates

Births

Deaths

References

Events

★ 26 February - In Daventry, Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrates the use of radar. ^[1]

★ 14 May - Northamptonshire gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proved to be their last victory for 99 matches, easily a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win was not until 29 May 1939.

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

★ 14 November - In the General Election, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin is returned to office at the head of a National Government led by the Conservative Party with a large but reduced majority.

★ 18 December - Samuel Hoare resigns as foreign secretary; replaced by Anthony Eden.

Unknown dates

★ James Chadwick wins the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the neutron" ^[2]

Births

★ 4 January - Audrey Wise, politician (d. 2000)

★ 18 January - Jon Stallworthy, poet

★ 17 February - Christina Pickles, actress

★ 28 March - Michael Parkinson, journalist and television presenter

★ 25 April - April Ashley, model

★ 10 May - Terrance Dicks, television writer

★ 17 May - Dennis Potter, writer (d. 1994)

★ 1 June - Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, architect and designer

★ 2 June - Roger Brierley, actor (d. 2005)

★ 5 June - Anne Pashley, track and field sprinter

★ 18 June - John Spencer, snooker player (d. 2006)

★ 19 June - Derren Nesbitt, actor

★ 9 July - Michael Williams, actor (d. 2001)

★ 11 July - Oliver Napier, politician

★ 15 July - William G. Stewart, television producer and presenter

★ 27 July - Billy McCullough, footballer

★ 28 July - Simon Dee, television presenter

★ 13 August - Rod Hull, entertainer (d. 1999)

★ 29 September - Bruce Tulloh, long-distance runner

★ 1 October - Julie Andrews, singer and actress

★ 9 October - Prince Edward, Duke of Kent

★ 13 November - George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury

★ 14 December - Anthony Wilden, author and social theorist, noted translator of Jaques Lacan

Deaths

★ 15 February - Basil Hall Chamberlain, Japanologist (b. 1850)

★ 18 May - T. E. Lawrence, soldier (Lawrence of Arabia) (b. 1888)

★ 28 September - W.K. Dickson, inventor (b. 1860)

★ 20 October - Arthur Henderson, politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)

★ 3 December - Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, daughter of King Edward VII (b. 1868)

References

1. Penguin Pocket On This Day, , , , Penguin Reference Library, 2006,
2. James Chadwick The Nobel Prize in Physics 1935