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1936 Calendar

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•  January 20, 1936 – Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom.
•  January 24, 1936 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rat in Chinese astrology.
•  February 29, 1936 – Baby Snooks, played by Fanny Brice, debuts on the radio program The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air.
•  March 1, 1936 – The Hoover Dam is completed.
•  March 8, 1936 – Daytona Beach Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
•  April 3, 1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
•  August 14, 1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
•  September 7, 1936 – The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
•  October 9, 1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
•  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.

•  February 18, 1936 – Jean Auel, American writer
•  March 16, 1936 – Raymond Vahan Damadian, Armenian American practitioner of MRI
•  March 31, 1936 – Marge Piercy, American writer
•  April 5, 1936 – John Kelly, Irish republican politician (d. 2007)
•  June 1, 1936 – Gerald Scarfe, British illustrator
•  June 25, 1936 – Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, Indonesian politician, President (1998-1999)
•  June 30, 1936 – Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
•  September 3, 1936 – Pilar Pallete, Peruvian actress and third wife of American movie star John Wayne
•  October 24, 1936 – Jimmy Dawkins, American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer
•  November 11, 1936 – Susan Kohner, American actress