The following events occurred in November 1935:
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- The Italian offensive in northern Abyssinia was halted for two days because of heavy rains.[7]
- 20 people went on trial in Paris over the Stavisky Affair.[8]
- Born: Nicholas Maw, composer, in Grantham, England (d. 2009)
- The Ethiopian government reported a victory over Italian forces in Ogaden.[18]
- In an effort to address nationwide supply shortages, Nazi Germany prohibited the export of important food and industrial raw materials.[19]
- Nadir of American race relations: A 700-person lynch mob in Columbus, Texas hanged two African-American youths accused of raping and murdering a young white woman. The county attorney said he did not consider the citizens who committed the lynching a mob, and called their act "the expression of the will of the people."[20][21]
- Born: William Tallon, servant of the British Royal Family, in Birtley, England (d. 2007)
- The German government protested to Britain that a new British regulation on German exports going into effect on November 18 was "not in harmony with certain provisions of the German-British trade agreement." The regulation stated that the exports must be accompanied by certificates of origin and was an attempt to prevent Italian exports from entering Britain.[22]
- The musical Jumbo with music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart premiered at the New York Hippodrome on Broadway.
- Mussolini declared government control of all the gold in Italy. All sellers of gold would be required to declare their holdings and record every transaction, and gold could not be sold without first offering it to the government at a 5 percent interest rate.[25]
- Died: John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, 75, British admiral
- Polish miners and steel workers began a three-day strike for shorter hours, higher wages and better working conditions.[35]
- The China Clipper landed at Wake Island.[36]
- The film Scrooge, the first feature-length sound version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, premiered in Britain.
- The Italian Ministry of Propaganda announced a ban on performances of music by any countries who had voted in the League of Nations for the sanctions against Italy.[5]
- Hitler declared all German males between 18 and 45 to be army reservists.[8]
- Died: Erich von Hornbostel, 58, Austrian ethnomusicologist
- The China Clipper completed its 8,000-mile (13,000 km) flight, landing in Manila.[39]
- 60 people drowned when two ferries capsized in the Chinese province of Jiangsu.[40]
- At the urging of King George II, Greece announced an amnesty for those involved in the March coup d'état attempt.[41]
- Born: Diane Ladd, actress and director, in Meridian, Mississippi; Thomas J. O'Brien, Roman Catholic bishop, in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 2018)
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