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1936 (''' MCMXXXVI ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Wednesday (link will take you to calendar).

EVENTS

January

--- 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 31 - '' The Green Hornet '' Radio show debuts.

February-March

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 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

April

April 6 - Three tornadoes strike Gainesville, Georgia. 203 die and 1,800 are injured. It is the fifth deadliest tornado in U.S. history.

May

--- 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 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 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

June

June 15 - Army laboratory explodes in Estonia - 50 dead.

June 19 - Max Schmeling knocks out Joe Louis in the twelfth round of their Heavyweight Boxing match at Yankee Stadium in New York City .

July

July - A major heat wave strikes the Midwest ern United States , hundreds of high temperature records are set

--- July 11 - Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic

July 13 to 14 - Peak of July 1936 heat wave. The State s of Wisconsin , Michigan , and Indiana all set new state records for high temperature.

July 16 – George McMahon tries to shoot Edward VIII at the Colour ceremony. Later he tries to claim he was working for MI5

August-September

August 1 - The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin , Germany .

August 14 - Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public Execution In The United States

September 6 - The last surviving Thylacine , Benjamin, dies alone in his cage in the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania .

October

October 9 - Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam ) begins to transmit Electricity from the Colorado River 266 miles to Los Angeles, California .

October 28 - US President Franklin Roosevelt rededicates the Statue Of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.

November

November 2 - BBC launch world's first regular (then) high definition television service.

is reelected to a second term in a landslide victory over Alf Landon .

November 12 - In California , the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.

November 23 - The first edition of ''Life'' is published.

November 25 - Abraham Lincoln Brigade sails from New York City on its way to Spanish Civil War

November 30 - In London , The Crystal Palace is destroyed in a fire (it had been built for the 1851 Great Exhibition ).

December

December 3 Radio station WQXR is officially founded

December 10 - 11 - Edward VIII Of The United Kingdom abdicates

December 11 - Abdication of King Edward VIII Of The United Kingdom leads to accession of King George VI Of The United Kingdom .

December 12 - George VI Of The United Kingdom accedes to the throne.

December 12 - 26 - Men of two of his generals kidnap Chiang Kai-Shek in Xi'an ( Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng do it to force him to negotiate a deal with the communists)

December 30 - The United Auto Workers Union stages its first sit-down strike.

Unknown Dates

YMCA Youth And Government program founded in Albany, New York

Mordecai Ham begins radio ministry.

Stress (medicine) first described

BIRTHS

January

January 2 - Roger Miller , American singer (d. 1992 )

--- January 10 - Stephen Ambrose , American historian (d. 2002 )

January 10 - Robert Wilson , American physicist and radio astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate

January 23 - Jerry Kramer , American football player

January 27 - Troy Donahue , American actor (d. 2001 )

January 28 - Alan Alda , American actor

February

--- February 11 - Burt Reynolds , American actor

February 14 - Andrew Prine , American actor

February 17 - Jim Brown , American football player

February 20 - Larry Hovis , American actor (d. 2003 )

February 24 - Lance Reventlow , English playboy, entrepreneur, and race car driver (d. 1972 )

March-April

March 6 - Marion Barry Jr. , Mayor of Washington, DC

March 7 - Loren Acton , astronaut

March 9 - Tom Sestak , American football player (d. 1987 )

March 11 - Rev. Ralph Abernathy , American civil rights leader (d. 1990 )

March 11 - Antonin Scalia , U.S. Supreme Court Justice

March 15 - Howard Greenfield , American songwriter (d. 1986 )

March 20 - Lee "Scratch" Perry , Jamaican musician

April 10 - John Madden , American football coach and sportscaster

April 14 - Kenneth Mars , American actor

April 22 - Glen Campbell , American musician

April 23 - Roy Orbison , American singer (d. 1988 )

May

May 2 - Engelbert Humperdinck , British singer

May 9 - Albert Finney , English actor

May 14 - Bobby Darin , American singer (d. 1973 )

May 17 - Dennis Hopper , American actor and director (d. 2006 )

June-August

June 8 - James Darren , American actor and singer

June 22 - Kris Kristofferson , American singer, songwriter, and actor

June 28 - Chuck Howley , American football player

June 29 - Harmon Killebrew , baseball player

July 16 - Buddy Merrill , American musician, '' The Lawrence Welk Show ''

July 23 - Don Drysdale , baseball player (d. 1993 )

August 1 - Yves St. Laurent , Algerian-born French fashion designer

August 18 - Robert Redford , American actor

August 21 - Wilt Chamberlain , American basketball player(d. 1999 )

September-December

September 7 - Buddy Holly , American singer (d. 1959 )

September 24 - Jim Henson , American puppeteer, filmmaker, and television producer (d. 1990 )

October 31 - Michael Landon , American actor (d. 1991 )

December 29 - Mary Tyler Moore , American actress

DEATHS

January-June

January 16 - Albert Fish , American serial killer (executed) (b. 1890 )

January 18 - Rudyard Kipling , British writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865 )

February 27 - Ivan Pavlov , Russian psychologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine (b. 1849 )

April 3 - Bruno Hauptmann , German killer of Charles Lindbergh Jr. (b. 1899 )