1936 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1936?
- January 15, 1936 – The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
- January 24, 1936 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 16, 1936 – Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.
- February 26, 1936 – In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
- March 1, 1936 – The Hoover Dam is completed.
- April 27, 1936 – The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
- May 25, 1936 – The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
- June 7, 1936 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president.
- June 10, 1936 – The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is founded.
- June 11, 1936 – The International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.
- June 28, 1936 – The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
- July 17, 1936 – Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
- July 23, 1936 – In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
- July 26, 1936 – King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the throne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.
- August 4, 1936 – Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
- October 9, 1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
- November 2, 1936 – Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
- December 30, 1936 – The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike.
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