1936





Events

   * January 15 -- The first building to be completely covered in glass is
     completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company.
   * January 20 - Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom
   * January 31 - The Green Hornet radio show debuts.
   * February 4 - Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made
     synthetically.
   * February 6 - 1936 Winter Olympic Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen,
     Germany
   * March 1 - Hoover Dam completed.
   * March 7 - World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty
     of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
   * March 8 - The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida.
   * April 3 - Richard Bruno Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and
     death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of Anne Morrow
     Lindbergh and Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Sr..
   * May 9 - Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis
     Ababa on May 5.
   * May 28 - Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publishing.
   * July 11 - Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
   * July 17 - Spanish Civil War: A conservative rebellion against the
     recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the
     cival war.
   * October 9 - Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam)
     begins to transmit electricity from the Colorado River 266 miles to Los
     Angeles, California.
   * October 13 - The Jarrow March sets off for London.
   * October 28 - US President Franklin Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of
     Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
   * October 31 - The Boy Scouts of the Philippines was formed.
   * November - Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Alfred M. Landon in the U.S.
     presidential election.
   * November 30 - The Crystal Palace in South London is destroyed by fire.
   * December 30 - The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down
     strike.

   * Inge Lehmann argues that the Earth's molten interior has a solid core.
   * The Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits is
     signed.
   * Francisco Franco and other generals attempt a coup d'etat against the
     Spanish Republic and start the Spanish Civil War.
   * Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
   * Abdication of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom leads to accession
     of King George VI of the United Kingdom.
   * YMCA Youth and Government program founded in Albany, New York

Art, Culture & Fashion

   * 1936 in film
        o January 6 - Porky Pig premieres
        o The Great Ziegfeld
        o Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
        o Romeo and Juliet
        o A Tale of Two Cities
   * 1936 in literature
        o The Allegory of Love by C. S. Lewis
        o Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
        o Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
        o Life magazine is first published
   * 1936 in music
        o January 4 - Billboard magazine publishes its first music hit
          parade
   * 1936 in sports
        o January 29 - First inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are
          announced
        o February 8 - Jay Berwanger becomes the first person to be selected
          by a National Football League draft, by the Philadelphia Eagles.
        o Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany
        o August 9 - 1936 Summer Olympics: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold
          medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals
          in one Olympics.
   * 1936 in television
        o July 7 - NBC's first attempt at actual programming is a 30-minute
          variety show featuring speeches, dance ensembles, monologues,
          vocal numbers, and film clips.
        o Approximately 2000 television sets are in use around the world

Births

   * January 3 - Georgina Spelvin, pornographic film actress
   * January 10 - Stephen Ambrose, historian and Dwight Eisenhower
     biographer
   * January 10 - Robert Wilson, physicist, radio astronomer
   * January 22 - Joseph Wambaugh, author
   * January 23 - Jerry Kramer, American football star
   * January 27 - Troy Donahue, actor (+ 2001)
   * January 28 - Alan Alda, actor
   * January 28 - Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer
   * February 11 - Burt Reynolds, United States actor
   * February 17 - Jim Brown, American football star
   * February 21 - Barbara Jordan, American politician (+ 1996)
   * February 23 - Majel Barrett, United States actress
   * February 29 - Henri Richard, ice hockey player
   * March 4 - Jim Clark, racing driver
   * March 5 - Dean Stockwell, actor
   * March 6 - Marion Barry Jr., mayor of Washington, DC
   * March 7 - Loren Acton, astronaut
   * March 11 - Rev. Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader (+ 1990)
   * March 11 - Antonin Scalia, associate justice of the United States
     Supreme Court
   * March 17 - Ladislav Kupkovic, composer
   * March 18 - Frederik Willem de Klerk, South African politician
   * March 19 - Ursula Andress, actress
   * March 24 - David Suzuki, environmentalist
   * March 28 - Mario Vargas Llosa, author and politician
   * April 22 - Glen Campbell, musician
   * April 23 - Roy Orbison, singer
   * May 9 - Glenda Jackson, actress and politician
   * May 9 - Albert Finney, actor
   * May 12 - Frank Stella, painter
   * May 14 - Bobby Darin, singer (+ 1973)
   * May 15 - Paul Zindel, novelist, playwright
   * May 15 - Anna Maria Alberghetti, actress
   * May 16 - Karl Lehmann, theologian
   * May 17 - Dennis Hopper, actor, director
   * May 28 - Betty Shabazz, civil rights leader and wife of Malcolm X
   * May 30 - Keir Dullea, actor
   * June 26 - Robert Maclennan, British politician
   * July 28 - Garfield Sobers, cricketer
   * August 1 - Yves St. Laurent, fashion designer
   * September 7 - Buddy Holly, United States singer
   * October 3 - Steve Reich, composer
   * October 16 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer
   * November 20 - Don DeLillo, United States author

Deaths

   * January 16 - Albert Fish, serial killer (electrocuted)
   * January 18 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer
   * January 20 - King George V of the United Kingdom
   * February 4 - Wilhelm Gustloff, Swiss Nazi Party leader
   * February 19 - Billy Mitchell, military aviation pioneer
   * April 3 - Bruno Hauptmann, convicted of killing Charles Lindbergh Jr.
   * June 11 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy author
   * June 14 - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, author
   * August 2 - Louis BlŽriot, French aviation pioneer
   * August 15 - Grazia Deledda, Italian writer - Nobel prize

Nobel Prizes

   * Physics - Victor Franz Hess, Carl David Anderson
   * Chemistry - Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debye
   * Medicine - Sir Henry Hallett Dale, Otto Loewi
   * Literature - Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
   * Peace - Carlos Saavedra Lamas