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1936 (MCMXXXVI leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar).
Contents
1 Events
1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March-April 1.4 May 1.5 June 1.6 July 1.7 August 1.8 September 1.9 October 1.10 November 1.11 December 1.12 Unknown Dates
2 Births
2.1 January 2.2 February 2.3 March 2.4 April 2.5 May 2.6 June 2.7 July 2.8 August 2.9 September 2.10 October 2.11 November 2.12 December
3 Deaths
3.1 January-June 3.2 July-December
4 Nobel prizes 5 Notes
Events January
February
March-April
May May 12 - The Santa Fe railroad in the United States inaugurates the all-Pullman Super Chief Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California .
May 14 - Universal Pictures ' new film version of Show Boat musical , premieres at Radio City Music Hall and receives ecstatic reviews. It preserves the famous stage performances of Irene Dunne , Charles Winninger , Helen Morgan , Paul Robeson , and Sammy White . It is a box office smash, but eventually withdrawn from circulation for many years by MGM , which plans a Technicolor remake .
May 27 - The first flight by the Irish airline Aer Lingus takes place.
May 27 - British luxury liner RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton on her maiden voyage over the Atlantic
June
July August September September 6 - The last surviving thylacine , Benjamin, dies alone in her (despite being named Benjamin, it was female) cage in the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania .
October November December December 3 Radio station WQXR is officially founded
December 10 -11 - King Edward VIII signs an instrument of abdication at Fort Belvedere in the presence of his three brothers, The Duke of York , The Duke of Gloucester and The Duke of Kent .
December 11 -
The British Parliament passes His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936 on behalf of the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
The King performs his last act as sovereign by giving royal assent to the Act
Prince Albert, Duke of York, becomes King, ruling as King George VI
The abdicated King Edward VIII, now HRH The Prince Edward, makes a broadcast to the nation explaining his decision to abdicate. He leaves the country for Austria
December 12 - The Irish Free State passes the External Relations Act to legislate for Edward VIII's abdication in that realm.
December 12 -26 - Men of two of his generals kidnap Chiang Kai-Shek in Xi'an (Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng do it to force him to negotiate a deal with the communists
December 30 - The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike.
Unknown Dates Births January January 2 - Roger Miller , American singer (d. 1992 )
January 5 - Florence King , American writer
January 10 - Stephen Ambrose , American historian (d. 2002 )
January 10 - Robert Wilson , American physicist and radio astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate
January 11 - Eva Hesse , American artist (d. 1970 )
January 20 - Lady Frances Roche of Femoy, Princess Diana's mother
January 23 - Jerry Kramer , American football player
January 27 - Troy Donahue , American actor (d. 2001 )
January 28 - Alan Alda , American actor
February February 6 - Kent Douglas , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
February 9 - Stompin' Tom Connors , Canadian country/folk singer
February 11 - Burt Reynolds , American actor
February 14 - Andrew Prine , American actor
February 17 - Jim Brown , American football player
February 19 - Sam Myers , American musician and songwriter (d. 2006 )
February 20 - Larry Hovis , American actor (d. 2003 )
February 24 - Lance Reventlow , English playboy, entrepreneur, and race car driver (d. 1972 )
March March 4 - Jim Clark , Scottish race car driver (d. 1968 )
March 4 - Aribert Reimann , German composer
March 6 - Marion Barry Jr. , Mayor of Washington, DC
March 7 - Loren Acton , astronaut
March 9 - Tom Sestak , American football player (d. 1987 )
March 11 - Ralph Abernathy , American civil rights leader (d. 1990 )
March 11 - Antonin Scalia , U.S. Supreme Court Justice
March 15 - Howard Greenfield , American songwriter (d. 1986 )
March 19 - Ursula Andress , Swiss actress, best known as the original Bond girl
March 20 - Lee "Scratch" Perry , Jamaican musician
April May June July August September September 7 - Buddy Holly , American singer (d. 1959 )
September 14 - Walter Koenig , American actor.
September 16 - Ken Forsse , American inventor and producer, creator of Teddy Ruxpin
September 24 - Jim Henson , American puppeteer, filmmaker, and television producer (d. 1990 )
September 29 - Silvio Berlusconi , Italian politician, entrepreneur, and media proprietor
October November December Deaths January-June January 9 - John Gilbert , American actor (b. 1899 )
January 16 - Albert Fish , American serial killer (executed) (b. 1870 )
January 18 - Rudyard Kipling , British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865 )
January 20 - King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865 )
February 4 - Wilhelm Gustloff , German leader of the Swiss Nazi Party (b. 1895 )
February 19 - Billy Mitchell , U.S. general and military aviation pioneer (b. 1879 )
February 26 - Takahashi Korekiyo , 11th Prime Minister of Japan (February 26 Incident ) (b. 1854 )
February 26 - Saito Makoto , 19th Prime Minister of Japan (February 26 Incident ) (b. 1858 )
February 27 - Ivan Pavlov , Russian psychologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1849 )
February 28 - Charles Nicolle , French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1866 )
March 16 - Marguerite Durand , French journalist and feminist leader (b. 1864 )
March 21 - Alexander Glazunov , Russian composer (b. 1865 )
April 3 - Bruno Hauptmann , German killer of Charles Lindbergh Jr. (b. 1899 )
April 8 - Robert Bárány , Austrian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1876 )
April 30 - Alfred Edward Housman , English poet (b. 1859 )
June 11 - Robert E. Howard , American author (suicide) (b. 1906 )
June 14 - Gilbert Keith Chesterton , English author (b. 1874 )
June 14 - Maxim Gorky , Russian writer (b. 1868 )
July-December July 21 - Georg Michaelis , Chancellor of Germany (b. 1857 )
August 2 - Louis Blériot , French aviation pioneer (b. 1872 )
August 9 - Lincoln Steffens , American journalist (b. 1866 )
August 15 - Grazia Deledda , Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871 )
August 19 - Federico García Lorca , Spanish writer (b. 1898 )
September 19 - Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande , Indian musician (b. 1860 )
October 2 - Juho Sunila , Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1875 )
October 3 - John Heisman , American football coach (b. 1869 )
October 8 - William Henry Stark , American businessman (b. 1851 )
December 9 - Arvid Lindman , Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1862 )
December 10 - Bobby Abel , English cricketer (b. 1857 )
December 10 - Luigi Pirandello , Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867 )
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