1936

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Years:	1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939

1936 by topic:
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Births - Deaths

1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar).

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Nobel prizes
5 Fields Medalists

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Events

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January-March

January 7-10 - Second Italo-Abyssinian War: In the Battle of Ganale Doria, General Graziani attacks troops under Ras Desta Damtew guarding southern Ethiopia; after over three days of slaughter, the Ethiopians break and flee.
January 15 - The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company.
January 16 - Serial killer Albert Fish executed in Sing Sing
January 20 - Death of George V of the United Kingdom. His son Edward VIII succeedes him as King of the United Kingdom, King of Ireland and Emperor of India.
January 24 - Albert Sarraut's government begins in France.
January 28 - Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer.
January 31 - The Green Hornet radio show debuts.
February 4 - Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
February 6 - The 1936 Winter Olympic Games opens in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
February 10-15 - Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Ethiopian units under Ras Mulugeta counterattack southwest of Chalacot in the Battle of Amba Aradam, but are repulsed with heavy losses.
From February 14, 1936, to March 1, 1945, AG Weser launched a total of 162 U-boats.
February 19 - Manuel Azaña's government begins in Spain
February 23 - February 25 - a plebiscite held in Estonia authorizes Head of State to convene National Constituent Assembly
February 26 - 1400 Japanese soldiers invade government offices in Tokyo. They demand arrest of general Kazushige Ugaki and that general Sadao Araki made head of the Kwantung Army and death of the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, the minister of Finance and Inspector General of Military Education
February 29 - Emperor Hirohito orders Japanese army to arrest 123 conspirators in Tokyo government offices - 19 of them are executed in July.
March 1 - Construction of Hoover Dam is completed
March 7 - A small contingent of German troops, increased considerably in number in the following days, marched into the Rhineland demilitarized zone bordering France.
March 31 - Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Emperor Haile Selassie personally leads an Ethiopian counter-attack in the Battle of Maychew. A crushing Ethiopian defeat, this is the last major battle of the war.

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May-June

May 2 - Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia leaves the capital city of Addis Ababa for Djibouti, whence he travels to Europe to personally address the League of Nations.
May 5 - Italians occupy Addis Ababa
May 8 - Jockey Ralph Neves temporarily dies during a race in Bay Meadows Racecourse in California but dashes back from the morgue to the racetrack
May 9 - Italy officially annexes Ethiopia.
May 12 - The Santa Fe railroad in the United States inaugurates the all-Pullman Super Chief passenger train between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California.
May 18 - Sada Abe, a Japanese former prostitute, causes the death of her lover Kichizo Ishida from asphyxia while having sexual intercourse. She performs penis removal on the corpse. She wanders the streets of Tokyo for three days with the severed penis placed in her kimono.
May 21 - The Japanese Police apprehends Sada Abe for manslaughter. She is sentenced to six years in prison but she gains fame from the incident. She would later become an actress.
May 27 - The first flight by the Irish airline Aer Lingus takes place.
May 27 - British luxury liner The Queen Mary leaves Southampton on her maiden voyage over the Atlantic
May 28 - Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication.
June 3 - Haile Selassie arrives to London in exile.
June 4 - Léon Blum becomes Prime Minister of France.
June 11 - Opening of the London International Surrealist Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries.
June 15 - Army laboratory explodes in Estonia - 50 dead.