1936: Encyclopedia II - 1936 - Events

1936 - Events

1936 - 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 Sarraut'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 Azaña'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 7 - A small contingent of German troops, increased considerably in number in the following days, marched into the Rhineland demilitarized zone bordering France.
• 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.

1936 - 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.

1936 - 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

1936 - 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.

1936 - 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.

1936 - 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'.
• Mordecai Ham begins radio ministry.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Events", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki