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1936

Years:
1933 1934 1935 - 1936 - 1937 1938 1939

Decades:
1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s

Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1936 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Art - Film - Literature - Music - Television
Science and technology
Aviation - Rail transport - Science
Other topics
Australia - Canada - Ireland - South Africa - Sport
Category:1936 births - Category:1936 deaths

Lists of leaders:
State leaders - Religious leaders

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

Events

January 15 -- The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company.
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 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 - Italian troops defeat Abyssinian army in Enderta
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.

May 2 - Haile Selassie flees to Aden
May 5 - Italians occupy Addis Ababa
May 9 - Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
May 12 - The Santa Fe railroad in the United States inaugurates the all-Pullman Super Chief passenger train between Chicago and Los Angeles, CA.
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 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 - 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 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 5 - Military coup in Greece - Ioannis Metaxas takes power
August 25 - Lev Kamenev and Grigori 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 1 - 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 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 - Condor Legion 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.