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.
- March 29, 1936 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany’s illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters.
- 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 18, 1936 – The first Champions Day is celebrated in Detroit, Michigan.
- April 27, 1936 – The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
- May 5, 1936 – Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- May 22, 1936 – Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland.
- June 26, 1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
- June 30, 1936 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy’s invasion of his country.
- 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 3, 1936 – A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
- October 27, 1936 – Mrs Wallis Simpson files for divorce which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
- November 8, 1936 – Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.
- November 30, 1936 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
- December 7, 1936 – Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
- December 11, 1936 – Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII’s abdication as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India becomes effective.
- December 23, 1936 – Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- December 30, 1936 – The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike.
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