1936 - What happened in 1936 ?

January 1936

Saturday 04:

Billboard magazine publishes its first pop music charts.

Monday 06:

Supreme Court of the United States rules the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional in the case United States v. Butler et al.; Porky Pig premieres

Wednesday 15:

The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio (the building was for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company).

Friday 24:

Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France

Friday 31:

The Green Hornet radio show debuts.

February 1936

Tuesday 04:

Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.

Thursday 06:

1936 Winter Olympic Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Saturday 08:

Jay Berwanger becomes the first person to be selected by a National Football League draft, by the Philadelphia Eagles.

Sunday 16:

Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.

Saturday 29:

Baby Snooks, played by Fanny Brice, debuts on the radio program The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air.

March 1936

Sunday 01:

Hoover Dam is completed.

Thursday 05:

First flight of fighter airplane Spitfire Type 300.

Saturday 07:

World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.

Sunday 08:

The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Wednesday 11:

1936 - British Prime Minister pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to join growing conflict with Germany.

April 1936

Friday 03:

Richard Bruno Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, the baby son of Anne and world-famous pilot Charles Lindbergh.

Sunday 05:

Tupelo-Gainesville Outbreak: A F5 tornado slams into the north side of Tupelo, Mississippi, killing 233. It is the 4th deadliest tornado in U.S. history.

Monday 06:

Tupelo-Gainesville Outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia killing 203.

Monday 27:

The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.

May 1936

Tuesday 05:

Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Saturday 09:

Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.

Thursday 21:

Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon became one of Japan's most notorious scandals.

Wednesday 27:

The RMS Queen Mary begins her maiden voyage.

Thursday 28:

Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.

June 1936

Thursday 04:

Léon Blum becomes Prime Minister of France.

Sunday 28:

The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.

Tuesday 30:

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell published.

July 1936

Friday 17:

Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the Spanish civil war.

Monday 20:

The Montreux Convention is signed in Montreux, Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.

Thursday 23:

In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of socialist and communist parties.

Sunday 26:

The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War

Friday 31:

The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics were to be held in Tokyo. However, the games were given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out, and were eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II.

August 1936

Saturday 01:

The Berlin Olympic Games open.

Sunday 09:

1936 Summer Olympics: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympics.

Friday 14:

Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States

Monday 24:

The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.

September 1936

Sunday 06:

The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in his cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.

October 1936

Thursday 01:

Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.

Monday 05:

The Jarrow March sets off for London.

Friday 09:

Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to transmit electricity from the Colorado River 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.

Sunday 25:

Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini create the Rome-Berlin Axis

Monday 26:

1936 The first electric generator at Hoover Dam went into full operation.

November 1936

Monday 02:

the British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, high-definition (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.

Tuesday 03:

U.S. presidential election, 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term in a landslide victory over Alf Landon.

Thursday 12:

In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.

Wednesday 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.

Monday 30:

In London, the Crystal Palace, built for the 1851 Great Exhibition, is destroyed in a fire.

December 1936

Thursday 03:

Radio station WQXR is officially founded

Saturday 05:

The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution.

Thursday 10:

Edward VIII, the only British monarch to have voluntarily relinquished the throne, signed his instrument of abdication.

Friday 11:

Edward VIII's abdication as King of the United Kingdom becomes effective.

Wednesday 23:

Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.