1936

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s

Years: 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 - 1936 - 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941

• 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 the baby son of Anne and Charles Lindbergh.
• May 9 - Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Abba[?] on May 5.
• May 28 - Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers[?]" for publishing.
• October 13 - The Jarrow March sets off for London.
• November - Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Alfred M. Landon in the U.S. presidential election.
• 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.

Art, Culture & Fashion

• 1936 in film
  • January 6 - Porky Pig premieres
  • The Great Ziegfeld
  • Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
  • Romeo and Juliet
  • A Tale of Two Cities
• 1936 in literature
  • The Allegory of Love by C. S. Lewis
  • Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink[?]
  • Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  • Life magazine is first published
• 1936 in music
  • January 4 - Billboard magazine publishes its first music hit parade
• 1936 in sports[?]
  • January 29 - First inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced
  • February 8 - Jay Berwanger becomes the first person to be selected by a National Football League draft, by the Philadelphia Eagles.
  • Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany
  • Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in Berlin Olympics
• 1936 in television
  • 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.
  • 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
• 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 11 - Reverend 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
• 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 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
• Wilhelm Gustloff, Swiss Nazi Party leader
• Grazia Deledda, Sardinian (Italy) writer - Nobel prize for literature (1926)

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[?]