1936 Calendar
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1936 Historical Event(s)
- January 24, 1936 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rat in Chinese astrology.
- February 4, 1936 – Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
- April 5, 1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
- May 5, 1936 – Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
- May 28, 1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
- 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 4, 1936 – Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
- 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.
- December 30, 1936 – The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike.
Who Were Born On 1936?
- January 27, 1936 – Troy Donahue, American actor (d. 2001)
- February 20, 1936 – Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball player and coach
- June 4, 1936 – Bruce Dern, American actor
- June 23, 1936 – Costas Simitis, Greek politician
- July 4, 1936 – Zdzisława Donat, Polish coloratura soprano
- July 16, 1936 – Buddy Merrill, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show)
- July 26, 1936 – Mary Millar, English actress (d. 1998)
- August 14, 1936 – Trevor Bannister, British actor (d. 2011)
- October 8, 1936 – Rona Barrett, American gossip columnist
- November 15, 1936 – H. B. Bailey, American NASCAR driver (d. 2003)