1936

Years:
1933 1934 1935 - 1936(MCMXXXVI) - 1937 1938 1939
Decades:
1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s
Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1936 by topic:

Arts Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television
Science and Technology Archaeology - Aviation - Rail transport - Radio - Science
Countries Australia - Canada - India - Ireland - South Africa
Other Births - Deaths - Sport - State leaders - Religious leaders - Video gaming

1936 was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar).

Events

January-March

January 7-10 - Second Italo-Abyssinian War: In the Battle of Ganale Doria, General Graziani attacks troops under Ras Desta Damtew guarding southern Ethiopia; after over three days of slaughter, the Ethiopians break and flee.
January 15 - The first building to be completely covered in Glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company.
January 16 - Serial killer Albert Fish executed in Sing Sing
January 20 - Death of George V of the United Kingdom. His son Edward VIII succeedes him as King of the United Kingdom, King of Ireland and Emperor of India.
January 24 - Albert Serraut's government begins in France.
January 28 - Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer.
January 31 - The Green Hornet Radio show debuts.
February 4 - Radium E. becomes the first Radioactive element to be made synthetically.
February 6 - The 1936 Winter Olympic Games opens in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
February 10-15 - Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Ethiopian units under Ras Mulugeta counterattack southwest of Chalacot in the Battle of Amba Aradam, but are repulsed with heavy losses.
From February 14, 1936, to March 1, 1945, AG Weser launched a total of 162 U-boats.
February 19 - Manuel Aznar's government begins in Spain
February 26 - 1400 Japanese soldiers invade government offices in Tokyo. They demand arrest of general Kazushige Ugaki and that general Sadao Araki made head of the Kwantung Army and death of the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, the minister of Finance and Inspector General of Military Education
February 29 - Emperor Hirohito orders Japanese army to arrest 123 conspirators in Tokyo government offices - 19 of them are executed in July.
March 31 - Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Emperor Haile Selassie personally leads an Ethiopian counter-attack in the Battle of Maychew. A crushing Ethiopian defeat, this is the last major battle of the war.

May-June

May 2 - Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia leaves the capital city of Addis Ababa for Djibouti, whence he travels to Europe to personally address the League of Nations.
May 5 - Italians occupy Addis Ababa
May 8 - Jockey Ralph Neves temporarily dies during a race in Bay Meadows Racecourse in California but dashes back from the morgue to the racetrack
May 9 - Italy officially annexes Ethiopia.
May 12 - The Santa Fe railroad in the United States inaugurates the all-Pullman Super Chief passenger train between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California.
May 18 - Sada Abe, a Japanese former prostitute, causes the death of her lover Kichizo Ishida from Asphyxia while having Sexual intercourse. She performs Penis removal on the corpse. She wanders the streets of Tokyo for three days with the severed Penis placed in her Kimono.
May 21 - The Japanese Police apprehends Sada Abe for Manslaughter. She is sentenced to six years in Prison but she gains Fame from the incident. She would later become an actress.
May 27 - The first flight by the Irish airline Aer Lingus takes place.
May 27 - British luxury liner The Queen Mary leaves Southampton on her Maiden Voyage over the Atlantic
May 28 - Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication.
June 3 - Haile Selassie arrives to London in exile.
June 4 - Léon Blum becomes Prime Minister of France.
June 11 - Opening of the London International Surrealist Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries.
June 15 - Army laboratory explodes in Estonia - 50 dead.

July-September

July - A major heat wave strikes the Midwestern United States, hundreds of high temperature records are set
July 4 - Last day of the London International Surrealist Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries
July 11 - Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic
July 13 - Murder of Spanish monarchist Jose Calvo Sotelo
July 13 to 14 - Peak of July 1936 heat wave. The states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Indiana all set new state records for high temperature.
July 16 - George McMahon tries to shoot Edward VIII at the Colour ceremony. Later he tries to claim he was working for MI5
July 17 - Spanish Civil War: Francisco Franco and other generals attempt a Coup d'état, starting a conservative rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain
July 17 - Franco's forces invade Canary Islands
July 18 - Troops of Francisco Franco land on Morocco and Barcelona - Spanish Civil War begins
July 19 - Spain - the main trade union, the anarchist CNT calls for a revolution to defeat the military coup and institute libertarian communism.
July - British Police end routine armed patrols in London
August 1 - The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, Germany.
August 4 - Ioannis Metaxas bans political parties in Greece
August 5 - Military coup in Greece - Ioannis Metaxas takes power
August 14 - Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States
August 25 - Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev were shot by a firing squad
September 6 - The last surviving Thylacine, Benjamin, dies alone in his cage in the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
September 14 - Landslide in northern Norway - 74 dead

October

October 1 - Francisco Franco elected Jefe del Estado (Head of State) in Spain.
October 5 - In Jarrow, England, 200 unemployed shipyard workers begin a march to London to petition the government to create more jobs. On October 31, 197 of them arrive on the Houses of Parliament
October 7 - Basque representatives in Guernica declare the Basque Republic of Euzkadi
October 9 - Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begins to transmit Electricity from the Colorado River 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
October 13 - The Jarrow March sets off for London.
October 13 - Regular Ferry traffic begins between Dover and Calais
October 23 - Legión Cóndor joins the Falangists
October 25 - Rome-Berlin axis is formed between Italy and Germany.
October 28 - US President Franklin Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
October 31 - The Boy Scouts of the Philippines was formed.

November-December

November 3 - U.S. presidential election, 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term in a landslide victory over Alf Landon.
November 12 - In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
November 16 - Edward VIII of the United Kingdom announces his intention to marry Wallis Simpson
November 20 - In UK, new Matrimonial Causes Act permits Divorce on the grounds of cruelty, drunkenness, willful desertion, incurable insanity, and being a prisoner on a death sentence
November 23 - The first edition of Life is published.
November 25 - In Berlin, Nazi-Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, thus agreeing to consult on what measures to take "to safeguard their common interests" in case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation (Adolf Hitler broke the terms of the pact when he signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact in August, 1939).
November 25 - Abraham Lincoln Brigade sails from New York City on its way to Spanish Civil War
November 30 - In London, The Crystal Palace is destroyed in a fire (it had been built for the 1851 Great Exhibition).
December 3 Radio station WQXR is officially founded
December 10-11 - Edward VIII of the United Kingdom abdicates
December 11 - Abdication of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom leads to accession of King George VI of the United Kingdom.
December 12 - George VI of the United Kingdom accedes to the throne.
December 12-26 - Men of two of his generals kidnap Chiang Kai-shek in Xi'an (Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng do it to force him to negotiate a deal with the communists)
December 30 - The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike.

Unknown Dates

Inge Lehmann argues that the Earth's molten interior has a solid core.
The Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits is signed.
YMCA Youth and Government program founded in Albany, New York
Oswald Mosley leads an Anti-Jewish march through London's East End, where it meets with opposition
Start of the Great Arab Revolt in the British Mandate of Palestine (lasting until 1939)
Jean Piaget (1896-1980) publishes 'La naissance de l'intelligence chez l'enfant'.

Births

January-February

January 2 - Roger Miller, American singer (d. 1992)
January 3 - Georgina Spelvin, film actress
January 10 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian (d. 2002)
January 10 - Robert Wilson, American physicist and radio astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate
January 21 - Koji Hashimoto, Japanese film director (d. 2005)
January 22 - Ong Teng Cheong, President of Singapore (d. 2002)
January 22 - Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
January 22 - Joseph Wambaugh, American author
January 23 - Jerry Kramer, American football player
January 27 - Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
January 27 - Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
January 28 - Alan Alda, American actor
January 28 - Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer
February 1 - Azie Taylor Morton, U.S. Treasurer (d. 2003)
February 11 - Burt Reynolds, American actor
February 14 - Andrew Prine, American actor
February 17 - Jim Brown, American football player
February 20 - Larry Hovis, American actor (d. 2003)
February 21 - Barbara Jordan, American politician (d. 1996)
February 24 - Lance Reventlow, English playboy, entrepreneur, and race car driver (d. 1972)
February 29 - Henri Richard, Canadian hockey player

March-April

March 4 - Jim Clark, Scottish race car driver (d. 1968)
March 5 - Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
March 5 - Dean Stockwell, American actor
March 6 - Marion Barry Jr., Mayor of Washington, DC
March 7 - Loren Acton, astronaut
March 9 - Tom Sestak, American football player (d. 1987)
March 11 - Rev. Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights leader (d. 1990)
March 11 - Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
March 17 - Ladislav Kupkovic, Slovak composer
March 18 - Frederik Willem de Klerk, President of South Africa, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
March 19 - Ursula Andress, Swiss actress
March 20 - Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Jamaican musician
March 24 - David Suzuki, Canadian environmentalist
March 28 - Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and politician
March 31 - Marge Piercy, American novelist
April 10 - John Madden, American football coach and sportscaster
April 14 - Kenneth Mars, American actor
April 22 - Glen Campbell, American musician
April 23 - Roy Orbison, American singer (d. 1988)
April 29 - Zubin Mehta, Indian conductor

May-August

May 2 - Engelbert Humperdinck, British singer
May 9 - Albert Finney, English actor
May 9 - Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician
May 12 - Frank Stella, American painter
May 14 - Aline Chainé, First Lady of Canada
May 14 - Bobby Darin, American singer (d. 1973)
May 14 - Waheeda Rehman, Indian actress
May 15 - Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian-born actress
May 15 - Paul Zindel, American novelist and playwright (d. 2003)
May 16 - Karl Lehmann, German theologian
May 17 - Dennis Hopper, American actor and director
May 22 - M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (d. 2005)
May 28 - Betty Shabazz, American civil rights leader
May 30 - Keir Dullea, American actor
June 4 - Nutan, Indian actress
June 8 - James Darren, American actor and singer
June 8 - Kenneth G. Wilson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
June 22 - Kris Kristofferson, American singer, songwriter, and actor
June 23 - Costas Simitis, Prime Minister of Greece
June 26 - Robert Maclennan, British politician
June 28 - Cathy Carr, American singer (d. 1988)
June 28 - Chuck Howley, American football player
June 29 - Harmon Killebrew, baseball player
July 5 - James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 6 - Dave Allen, Irish comedian (d. 2005)
July 23 - Don Drysdale, baseball player (d. 1993)
July 28 - Garfield Sobers, West Indian cricketer
August 1 - Yves St. Laurent, Algerian-born French fashion designer
August 4 - Assia Djebar, Algerian writer and filmmaker
August 20 - Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
August 21 - Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player(d. 1999)
August 29 - Inga Artamonova, Russian speed skater (d. 1966)

September-December

September 2 - Andrew Grove, Hungarian-born businessman
September 7 - Buddy Holly, American singer (d. 1959)
September 14 - Walter Koenig, American actor
September 24 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer, filmmaker, and television producer (d. 1990)
October 3 - Steve Reich, American composer
October 7 - Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
October 16 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
October 31 - Michael Landon, American actor (d. 1991)
November 12 - Mills Lane, American boxing referee
November 19 - Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
November 20 - Don DeLillo, American author
November 21 - Victor Chang, Australian heart surgeon
December 11 - Taku Yamasaki, Japanese politician
December 25 - Princess Alexandra of Kent
December 29 - Mary Tyler Moore, American actress
Ray Nitschke, American football player (d. 1998)

Deaths

January 16 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1890)
January 18 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
January 20 - King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
February 4 - Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi Party (b. 1895)
February 19 - Billy Mitchell, U.S. general and military aviation pioneer (b. 1879)
February 26 - Saito Makoto, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1858)
February 27 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian psychologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1849)
March 16 - Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist leader (b. 1864)
March 21 - Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (b. 1865)
April 3 - Bruno Hauptmann, German killer of Charles Lindbergh Jr. (b. 1899)
April 8 - Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1876)
April 30 - Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (b. 1859)
June 11 - Robert E. Howard, American author (suicide} (b. 1906)
June 14 - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, English author (b. 1874)
June 14 - Maxim Gorky, Russian writer (b. 1868)
August 2 - Louis Blériot, French aviation pioneer (b. 1872)
August 9 - Lincoln Steffens, American journalist (b. 1866)
August 15 - Grazia Deledda, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
August 19 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish writer (b. 1898)
October 3 - John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869)
October 8 - William Henry Stark American businessman (b. 1851)
December 9 - Arvid Lindman, Prime Minister of Sweden
December 10 - Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
December 10 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)

Nobel Prizes

Fields Medalists

Lars Ahlfors, Jesse Douglas

1956 Index

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