Year '1936' ('
MCMXXXVI') was a
leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1936
January-February
★
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 - King
George V of the United Kingdom dies. His eldest son succeeds the throne becoming
Edward VIII.
★
January 31 - ''
The Green Hornet''
radio show debuts.
★
February 4 -
Radium E. becomes the first
radioactive element to be made synthetically.
★
February 6 - The
IV Olympic Winter Games opens in
Garmisch-Partenkirchen,
Germany.
★
February 17 The first
superhero to wear a skin-tight costume and mask, ''
The Phantom'', makes his first appearance in US newspapers
★
February 26 - The
Imperial Way Faction engineered a failed
coup against the
Japanese government. Some politicians were killed.
★
February 29 - Emperor
Hirohito orders the Japanese army to arrest 123 conspirators in Tokyo government offices - 19 of them are executed in July.
March-April
★
March 1 - Construction of
Hoover Dam is completed.
★
March 7 - In violation of the
Treaty of Versailles,
Nazi Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
★
March 9 - Pro-democratic militarist
Keisuke Okada stepped down as
Prime Minister of
Japan and was replaced by radical militarist
Koki Hirota.
★
April 3 -
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted of kidnapping and killing
Charles Lindbergh III, is executed in
New Jersey.
★
April 5 - A tornado hits
Tupelo, Mississippi killing 216 and injuring over 700. It is the 4th deadliest tornado in U.S. history.
★
April 6 - Two tornadoes strike
Gainesville, Georgia. The smaller tornado hit north Gainsville and the stronger tornado hit west side of town. The two paths eventually met but not the tornadoes. 203 die and 1600 are injured in the 5th deadliest tornado in U.S. history.
★
April 19 - The
1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine against the British government and opposition to Jewish immigration begins.
May-June
★
May 7 -
Italy annexes
Ethiopia.
★
May 9 -
Italian East Africa is formed from the Italian territories of
Eritrea,
Ethiopia, and
Italian Somaliland.
★
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 14 -
Universal Pictures' new film version of ''
Show Boat'', a faithful adaptation of the
stage musical, premieres at
Radio City Music Hall to ecstatic reviews. It preserves the famous stage performances of
Irene Dunne,
Charles Winninger,
Helen Morgan,
Paul Robeson, and
Sammy White. It is a box office smash, but withdrawn from circulation in 1942 by
MGM, due to their impending
Technicolor remake, which does not appear until 1951. Starting in 1942, the 1936 ''Show Boat'' will not be widely seen again until 1981.
★
May 27 - The first flight by the Irish airline
Aer Lingus takes place.
★
May 27 - British luxury liner
RMS Queen Mary leaves
Southampton on her
maiden voyage over the
Atlantic
★ June - A
major heat wave strikes
North America; high temperature records are set and thousands die.
★
June 7 - The General strike in France is ended by the
Matignon Agreements
★
June 15 - Army laboratory explodes in
Estonia - 50 dead.
★
June 19 -
Max Schmeling knocks out
Joe Louis in the twelfth round of their
heavyweight boxing match at
Yankee Stadium in
New York City.
★
June 30 -
Margaret Mitchell's novel ''
Gone with the Wind'' is first published.
July-August
★
July 11 -
Triborough Bridge in
New York City is opened to traffic
★
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. At Mio, in northern Michigan it soars to 113°F (45°C)
★
July 18 - Spain's civil war begins when nationalist troops under the command of
General Francisco Franco rise against the legal republic.
★
August 1 -
1936 Summer Olympics open in
Berlin,
Germany, and mark the first live television coverage of a sports event in world history.
★
August 3 -
African-American athlete
Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash at the
Berlin Olympics.
★
August 14 -
Rainey Bethea is hanged in
Owensboro, Kentucky, in the last public
execution in the United States
★
August 19 - Beginning of the first of the
Moscow Trials
★
August 30 -
Ernest Nash flees
Germany for
Rome
September-October
★
September 6 - The last surviving
Tasmanian Tiger dies in
Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
November-December
★
November 2
★
★
BBC launches world's first regular (then) high definition television service.
★
★ The
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) begins
radio in
Canada.
★
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 23 - The first edition of
''Life'' is published.
★
November 25 -
Abraham Lincoln Brigade sails from
New York City on its way to
Spanish Civil War
★
November 26 - The
Anti-Comintern Pact is signed by Germany and Japan.
★
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 -
King Edward VIII signs an instrument of
abdication at
Fort Belvedere in the presence of his three brothers,
The Duke of York,
The Duke of Gloucester and
The Duke of Kent.
★
December 11
★
★ The British Parliament passes
His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936 on behalf of the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
★
★ The King performs his last act as sovereign by giving
royal assent to the Act.
★
★ Prince Albert, Duke of York, becomes King, ruling as
King George VI
★
★ The abdicated King Edward VIII, now HRH The Prince Edward, makes a broadcast to the nation explaining his decision to abdicate. He leaves the country for
Austria
★
December 12 -
Irish Free State passes the
External Relations Act to legislate for Edward VIII's abdication in that realm.
★
December 12 -
Xi'an Incident: The Generalissimo of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek was kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang.
★
December 30 -
United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike.
Undated
★
YMCA Youth and Government program founded in
Albany, New York.
★
Mordecai Ham begins radio ministry.
★
Stress is first recognised as a medical condition.
★
Earl W. Bascom,
rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and builds
Mississippi's first permanent rodeo arena.
Births
January-February
★
January 2 -
Roger Miller, American singer (d.
1992)
★
January 5 -
Florence King, American writer
★
January 10
★
★
Stephen Ambrose, American historian (d.
2002)
★
★
Robert Wilson, American physicist and radio astronomer,
Nobel Prize laureate
★
January 11 -
Eva Hesse, American artist (d.
1970)
★
January 20 -
Lady Frances Roche of Femoy, Princess Diana's mother
★
January 23 -
Jerry Kramer, American football player
★
January 27 -
Troy Donahue, American actor (d.
2001)
★
January 28 -
Alan Alda, American actor
★
February 6 -
Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
★
February 9 -
Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country/folk singer
★
February 11 -
Burt Reynolds, American actor
★
February 14 -
Andrew Prine, American actor
★
February 17 -
Jim Brown, American football player
★
February 19 -
Sam Myers, American musician and songwriter (d.
2006)
★
February 20 -
Larry Hovis, American actor (d.
2003)
★
February 24 -
Lance Reventlow, English playboy, entrepreneur, and race car driver (d.
1972)
★
February 27 -
Roger Mahony, fourth Archbishop of Los Angeles
March-April
★
March 4 -
Jim Clark, Scottish race car driver (d.
1968)
★ March 4 -
Aribert Reimann, German composer
★
March 6 -
Marion Barry Jr., Mayor of Washington, DC
★
March 7 -
Loren Acton, astronaut
★
March 9
★
★
Tom Sestak, American football player (d.
1987)
★
★
Mickey Gilly, American musician
★
March 11
★
★
Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights leader (d.
1990)
★
★
Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
★
March 15 -
Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (d.
1986)
★
March 19 -
Ursula Andress, Swiss actress, best known as the original
Bond girl
★
March 20 -
Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican musician
★
April 10 -
John Madden, American football coach and sportscaster
★
April 12 -
Charles Napier, American actor
★
April 14 -
Kenneth Mars, American actor
★
April 21 -
James Dobson, PH.D, Founder of Focus On The Family, child psychologist
★
April 22 -
Glen Campbell, American musician
★
April 23 -
Roy Orbison, American singer (d.
1988)
May-June
★
May 2 -
Engelbert Humperdinck, British/American singer
★
May 9 -
Albert Finney, English actor
★
May 14 -
Bobby Darin, American singer (d.
1973)
★
★ May 14 -
Dick Howser, American baseball shortstop/manager (d.
1987)
★
May 17 -
Dennis Hopper, American actor and director
★
May 23 -
Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer
★
June 8 -
James Darren, American actor and singer
★
June 17 -
Ken Loach, British director
★
June 22 -
Kris Kristofferson, American singer, songwriter, and actor
★
June 28 -
Chuck Howley, American football player
★
June 29 -
Harmon Killebrew, baseball player
July-August
★
July 16 -
Buddy Merrill, American musician, ''
The Lawrence Welk Show''
★
July 23 -
Don Drysdale, baseball player (d.
1993)
★
August 1
★
★
Bradford Bishop, fugitive indicted for the murders of his three children, spouse and mother in
1976.
★
★
Yves Saint-Laurent, Algerian-born French fashion designer
★
August 1 -
Donald Neilson, British serial killer known as the 'Black Panther', currently serving five life sentences
★
August 11 -
Andre Dubus, American short-story writer (d.
1999)
★
August 18 -
Robert Redford, American actor
★
August 21 -
Wilt Chamberlain, American basketball player (d.
1999)
★
August 27 -
David Clarke, English retired teacher
★
August 29 -
John McCain, American politician
September-October
★
September 7 -
Buddy Holly, American singer (d.
1959)
★
September 14 -
Walter Koenig, American actor.
★
September 16-
Ken Forsse, American inventor and producer, creator of
Teddy Ruxpin
★
September 21 -
Yuriy Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow
★
September 24 -
Jim Henson, American puppeteer, filmmaker, and television producer (d.
1990)
★
September 29 -
Silvio Berlusconi, Italian politician, entrepreneur, and media proprietor
★
October 1 -
Stella Stevens, American actress
★
October 11 -
Larry Staverman, American professional basketball player and coach (d.
2007)
★
October 19 -
Tony Lo Bianco, American actor
★
October 25 -
Masako Nozawa, Japanese voice actress
★
October 29 -
Akiko Kojima, Japanese model
★
October 31 -
Michael Landon, American actor (d.
1991)
November-December
★
November 4 -
C. K. Williams, American poet
★
November 19 -
Andrew Spencer, American author and philosopher
★
November 20 -
Don DeLillo, American author
★
November 23 -
Robert Barnard, British writer, critic and lecturer
★
December 5 -
James Lee Burke, American writer
★
December 25 -
Princess Alexandra of Kent, daughter of
The Duke and
Duchess of Kent
★
December 29 -
Mary Tyler Moore, American actress
Deaths
January-June
★
January 9 -
John Gilbert, American actor (b.
1899)
★
January 16 -
Albert Fish, American serial killer (executed) (b.
1870)
★
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 - in the "
February 26 Incident":
★
★
Takahashi Korekiyo, 11th
Prime Minister of
Japan (b.
1854)
★
★
Saito Makoto, 19th
Prime Minister of Japan (b.
1858)
★
February 27 -
Ivan Pavlov, Russian psychologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1849)
★
February 28 -
Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1866)
★
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)
July-December
★
July 21 -
Georg Michaelis,
Chancellor of Germany (b.
1857)
★
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 GarcÃa Lorca, Spanish writer (b.
1898)
★
September 19 -
Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician (b.
1860)
★
October 2 -
Juho Sunila, Prime Minister of Finland (b.
1875)
★
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 (b.
1862)
★
December 10
★
★
Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b.
1857)
★
★
Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1867)
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
Victor F. Hess,
Carl D. Anderson ("for his discovery of
cosmic radiation" / "for his discovery of the
positron").
★
Chemistry -
Petrus (Peter) Josephus Wilhelmus Debye ("for his contributions to our knowledge of molecular structure through his investigations on dipole moments and on the diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases").
★
Physiology or Medicine -
Sir Henry Hallett Dale,
Otto Loewi ("for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses").
★
Literature -
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill ("for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy").
★
Peace -
Carlos Saavedra Lamas (
Argentina)
Notes
External links
Table of contents
__TOC__
العربية
ä¸å›½
Français
Deutsch
Ελληνική
हिनà¥à¤¦à¥€
Italiano
日本語
Português
РуÑÑкий
Español
