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 26, 1936 – In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
- May 21, 1936 – Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover’s severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan’s most notorious scandals.
- May 28, 1936 – Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
- August 9, 1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.
- August 14, 1936 – Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States.
- October 1, 1936 – Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
- December 10, 1936 – Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
- December 23, 1936 – Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
Who Were Born On 1936?
- January 2, 1936 – Roger Miller, American singer (d. 1992)
- April 3, 1936 – Scott LaFaro, American musician (d. 1961)
- April 14, 1936 – Bobby Nichols, American professional golfer
- May 27, 1936 – Marcel Masse, Canadian politician
- July 23, 1936 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player (d. 1993)
- September 5, 1936 – Jonathan Kozol, American writer, sociologist
- September 13, 1936 – Joe E. Tata, American actor
- November 3, 1936 – Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player
- November 15, 1936 – Wolf Biermann, German writer
- November 19, 1936 – Dick Cavett, American talk show host