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 16, 1936 – Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.
- April 18, 1936 – The first Champions Day is celebrated in Detroit, Michigan.
- May 25, 1936 – The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins.
- June 30, 1936 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy’s invasion of his country.
- July 23, 1936 – In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
- 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.
- November 12, 1936 – In California, the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
- December 23, 1936 – First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
Who Were Born On 1936?
- January 1, 1936 – Don Nehlen, American football player and coach
- March 31, 1936 – Bob Pulford, Canadian ice hockey player
- May 23, 1936 – Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer
- June 29, 1936 – Harmon Killebrew, American baseball player (d. 2011)
- July 5, 1936 – James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel laureate
- July 30, 1936 – Infanta Pilar of Spain
- September 3, 1936 – Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, President of Tunisia
- September 27, 1936 – Gordon Honeycombe, British playwright
- November 23, 1936 – Robert Barnard, British mystery writer
- December 29, 1936 – Ray Nitschke, American football player (d. 1998)