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.
- January 29, 1936 – The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
- February 4, 1936 – Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
- February 10, 1936 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
- May 25, 1936 – The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
- June 10, 1936 – The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is founded.
- June 26, 1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
- July 6, 1936 – A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 ft into the River Irwell.
- 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 26, 1936 – The Axis Powers decide to intervene in the Spanish Civil War.
- August 31, 1936 – Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
- September 7, 1936 – The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
- October 1, 1936 – Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
- November 2, 1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
- November 12, 1936 – In California, the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
- November 23, 1936 – Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
- November 25, 1936 – In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures “to safeguard their common interests” in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories.
- November 30, 1936 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
- 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 30, 1936 – The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike.
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