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.

Monday 23:

The first edition of Life is published.

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.