by Brittany & Amanda

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1935 was a very exciting, and hard year. The Federal Government was working to help people through the WPA. Since the country was in a depression many people had time to sit and think of different way to pass the time. Maybe that's how Monopoly got started by Mr. Darrow, or Enid Bagnold came up with the book National Velvet. Also people had a lot of time to play their favorite sports like baseball. Which is exactly what the two teams did when they played at the first night game at Cincinnati's Crosley Field in 1935. The events that happened during 1935 will never be forgotten.
 
• The first Orange Bowl is played on January 1 in Miami, Florida. Bucknell was invited to play the University of Miami Hurricanes and the Bison routed Miami, Florida 26-0.
• On January 24, Krueger Beer introduces the first canned beer.
• The first major league night baseball game is played May 14 at Cincinnati's Crosley Field.
• Ex-alcoholic Bill Wilson founds alcoholics-anonymous at New York June 10
• The  National Youth Administration is created June 26 as a division of the WPA.
• The Social Security Act was signed into law August 14.
• A physician Carl Austin shot Louisiana Governor Huey Long to death September 8.
• On October 23, a gunman wounds mobster Dutch Shulz in Newark, New Jersey. Schultz died the next morning.
• The western part of the United States became a Dust Bowl. The horrible conditions stopped highway traffic, closed schools, and turned day into night.
• Max Factor of Hollywood opens a super salon in the film Capital.
• Charles B. Darrow showed his idea for a game called Monopoly to the Parker Brothers. At first they were not interested.
• The U.S. Army Air Corps has its beginning in the General Headquarters Air Force established under the Command of Brig.
• After 8 years of reconstruction, restoration and preservation funded by a $94.9 million gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr. Williamsburg, Virginia returns working as a colonial showcase of life in 18th century America.
• Gallup Organization is founded in Iowa by statistician George H. Gallup. It studies human nature and behavior, it will come to be known for its famous polling.

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