1935 in the United Kingdom

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Events from the year 1935 in the United Kingdom. This royal Silver Jubilee year sees a General Election and changes in the leadership of both the Conservative and Labour parties.

Incumbents

• Monarch - King George V
• Prime Minister - Ramsay MacDonald, national coalition (until 7 June), Stanley Baldwin, national coalition

Events

• 1 January - Ramblers' Association founded.
• 26 February - In Daventry, Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrates the use of radar.^[1]
• 12 March - Speed limit in built-up areas reduced to 30 m.p.h.^[2]
• 18 March - Britain protest at Germany's introduction of conscription
• April - Reflective cat's-eyes first used on British roads.^[2]
• 6 May - Silver Jubilee celebrations for King George V.^[2]
• 22 May - The government announces plans to triple the size of the Royal Air Force in the next two years.
• 14 May - Northamptonshire gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proves to be their last victory for 99 matches, easily a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win will not be until 29 May 1939.
• 31 May - The driving test becomes compulsory.^[1]
• 7 June - Ramsay MacDonald retires; Stanley Baldwin takes over as Prime Minister.^[2]
• 18 June - Anglo-German Naval Agreement: Britain agrees to a German navy equal to 35% of her own naval tonnage.^[2]
• June - Alfred Hitchcock's film of The 39 Steps released in the UK.
• 12 July - Rioting breaks out in Belfast following Orange parades; by the end of August eight Protestants and five Catholics have been killed, hundreds injured and over 2,000 homes destroyed (almost all Catholic).^[3][4]
• 29 July - T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom is first published in an edition for general circulation, two months after his death in a motorcycle accident.
• 30 July - Allen Lane founds Penguin Books to publish the first mass market paperbacks in Britain.^[1][2]
• 18 August - Last service held in Mardale church in the Lake District prior to the village's flooding to create Manchester Corporation's Haweswater Reservoir.^[5]
• 3 September - Malcolm Campbell sets a new land speed record of 484.620 km per hour (301.129 mph) at the Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, driving the Campbell-Railton Blue Bird.^[1]
• 12 September - An underground explosion at North Gawber (Lidgett) colliery, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, kills nineteen.^[6]
• October - First steel produced from new works at Corby.
• 8 October - Clement Attlee is appointed as interim leader of the Labour Party in succession to George Lansbury.^[7]
• 4 November - Opening of Hornsey Town Hall, London, designed by Reginald Uren, the first major UK building in the International style.
• 6 November - Maiden flight of the RAF's Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft.^[1]
• 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.
• 26 November
  • In the Labour Party leadership election, Clement Attlee is confirmed as leader.^[2]
  • Release of Scrooge, the first all-talking full-length film version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Sir Seymour Hicks in the title rôle.^[8]
• 10 December - James Chadwick wins the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the neutron".^[9]
• 12 December - Opening of The De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill on Sea in East Sussex, designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff in the International style.^{[10][11][12][13]}
• 18 December - Samuel Hoare resigns as foreign secretary; replaced by Anthony Eden.

Undated

• Rowntree's of York produce their first Chocolate Crisp bars, which will in 1937 be renamed Kit Kat.
• Bede sanctified by the Catholic Church.^[14]
• Bahram wins the English Triple Crown by finishing first in the Epsom Derby, 2,000 Guineas and St Leger.

Publications

• Enid Bagnold's novel National Velvet.
• Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novels Three Act Tragedy and Death in the Clouds.
• Graham Greene's novel England Made Me.
• Georgette Heyer's Regency romance Regency Buck.
• Christopher Isherwood's novel Mr Norris Changes Trains.
• John Masefield's novel The Box of Delights.
• George Orwell's novel A Clergyman's Daughter.
• Caroline Spurgeon's study Shakespeare's Imagery, and what it tells us.
• P. G. Wodehouse's short story collection Blandings Castle and Elsewhere.

Births

• 4 January - Audrey Wise, politician (died 2000)
• 18 January - Jon Stallworthy, poet
• 24 January - Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (died 2008)
• 25 January - J. G. Farrell, novelist (died 1979)
• 27 January - D. M. Thomas, novelist, poet and translator
• 28 January - David Lodge, author
• 4 February - Alex Harvey, Scottish Musician (died 1982)
• 17 February - Christina Pickles, actress
• 23 March - Barry Cryer, comedian
• 28 March - Michael Parkinson, journalist and television presenter
• 19 April - Dudley Moore, actor, comedian and musician (died 2002)
• 25 April - April Ashley, model
• 8 May - Jack Charlton, footballer
• 10 May - Terrance Dicks, television writer
• 17 May - Dennis Potter, writer (died 1994)
• 1 June - Norman Foster, architect and designer
• 2 June - Roger Brierley, actor (died 2005)
• 5 June - Anne Pashley, track and field sprinter
• 18 June - John Spencer, snooker player (died 2006)
• 19 June - Derren Nesbitt, actor
• 9 July - Michael Williams, actor (died 2001)
• 11 July - Oliver Napier, politician (died 2011)
• 15 July - William G. Stewart, television producer and presenter
• 27 July - Billy McCullough, footballer
• 28 July - Simon Dee, television presenter (died 2009)
• 13 August - Rod Hull, entertainer (died 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
• 27 November - Verity Lambert, television producer (died 2007)
• 14 December - Anthony Wilden, author and social theorist, noted translator of Jaques Lacan

Deaths

• 7 February - Lewis Grassic Gibbon, writer (born 1901)
• 15 February - Basil Hall Chamberlain, Japanologist (born 1850)
• 18 May - T. E. Lawrence, soldier (Lawrence of Arabia) (born 1888)
• 28 September - W.K. Dickson, inventor (born 1860)
• 20 October - Arthur Henderson, politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1863)
• 3 December - Princess Victoria, daughter of King Edward VII (born 1868)

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