1936 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1936?
- January 24, 1936 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 10, 1936 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
- March 1, 1936 – The Hoover Dam is completed.
- March 8, 1936 – Daytona Beach Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
- April 3, 1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
- April 5, 1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
- April 15, 1936 – First day of the Arab revolt in Palestine.
- April 18, 1936 – The first Champions Day is celebrated in Detroit, Michigan.
- May 25, 1936 – The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
- May 26, 1936 – In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for 10 hours.
- June 11, 1936 – The International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.
- July 20, 1936 – The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.
- July 23, 1936 – In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
- August 14, 1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
- August 31, 1936 – Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
- October 5, 1936 – The Jarrow March sets off for London.
- 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 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
- December 7, 1936 – Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
- December 23, 1936 – First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
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