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.
- April 5, 1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
- April 18, 1936 – The first Champions Day is celebrated in Detroit, Michigan.
- May 5, 1936 – Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- May 9, 1936 – Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
- May 26, 1936 – In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for 10 hours.
- June 10, 1936 – The Russian animation studio Soyuzmultfilm is founded.
- June 11, 1936 – The International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England.
- 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 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.
- August 4, 1936 – Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
- August 14, 1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
- August 24, 1936 – The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
- October 26, 1936 – The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
- 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 2, 1936 – Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
- December 23, 1936 – First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
- December 30, 1936 – The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike.
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