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  • Mar 7 German dictator Adolf Hitler breaks the Treaty of Versailles by sending troops into the demilitarized Rhineland
  • On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem, by Alan Turing

    On Computable Numbers

    May 28 Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers" for publication, in which he sets out the theoretical basis for modern computers
  • Jul 17 Spanish generals Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola lead a right-wing uprising, starting the Spanish Civil War
  • Jul 18 Spanish Civil War: General Francisco Franco issues manifesto and leads an uprising in the Spanish army stationed in Morocco
  • Sep 14 First prefrontal lobotomy in America performed by Walter Freeman and James W. Watts at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
  • Sep 21 Spanish fascist junta names Francisco Franco Generalísimo and Supreme Commander
  • Caught off-guard: the Windsors hear a sad dog tale. Photographer: Richard Avedon. National Portrait Gallery, London

    King Abdicates for Love of Wallis Simpson

    Dec 10 Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up the British throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson
  • Dec 24 First radioactive isotope medicine is administered in Berkeley, California
More 1936 Events
  • Jan 13 Screen Directors Guild incorporates in Hollywood and later elects King Vidor as its first president
  • Feb 5 Silent film "Modern Times," directed by, written by and starring Charlie Chaplin, is released
  • Jul 7 RCA broadcasts the first real TV program, a variety show with dancing, a film on locomotives, a Bonwit Teller fashion show, and a monologue from Tobacco Road
  • Sep 4 RKO Radio Pictures releases "Swing Time," directed by George Stevens and starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
  • Nov 2 At 3 pm, the BBC begins the world's first regular high-definition TV broadcast service from specially constructed studios at Alexandra Palace, North London
  • Nov 12 First-ever TV gardening show "In Your Garden" airs on the BBC
  • Jan 4 Billboard magazine publishes its first music hit parade
  • May 2 Sergei Prokofiev's musical "Peter and the Wolf" premieres in Moscow
  • Jan 29 First players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson
  • Feb 8 First-ever NFL Draft: Jay Berwanger from the University of Chicago is first pick by Philadelphia Eagles
  • Mar 8 The first stock car race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida
  • Aug 1 XI Summer Olympic Games are opened by Adolf Hitler in Berlin
  • Jesse Owens gets into his stride at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin

    The Greatest 45 Minutes in Sports History

    Aug 3 American sprinter Jesse Owens wins the 100 m in 10.3 seconds in front of Adolf Hitler in a famous race at the Berlin Olympics, the first of four gold medals he wins at the Games
  • Aug 5 American athlete Jesse Owens wins the 200 m in a world record time of 20.7 seconds, his third gold medal of the Berlin Olympics

First radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E)

February 4, 1936

  • Mario Vargas Llosa

    March 28

  • Amancio Ortega

    March 28

  • Anthony Kennedy

    July 23

  • Judea Pearl

    September 4

  • Bobby Seale

    October 22

  • Pope Francis

    December 17

  • Alan Alda

    January 28

  • David Suzuki

    March 24

  • Robert Redford

    August 18

  • Jim Henson

    September 24

  • Michael Landon

    October 31

  • Mary Tyler Moore

    December 29

  • Roger Miller

    January 2

  • Glen Campbell

    April 22

  • Roy Orbison

    April 23

  • Buddy Holly

    September 7

  • Bill Wyman

    October 24

  • Mary Travers

    November 9

  • Sepp Blatter

    March 10

  • Bob Charles

    March 14

  • John Madden

    April 10

  • Garfield Sobers

    July 28

  • Wilt Chamberlain

    August 21

  • Roy Emerson

    November 3
More People Born in 1936

The last surviving member of the marsupial thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in his cage at Hobart Zoo, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

September 7, 1936

  • Rudyard Kipling

    January 18

  • George V

    January 20

  • Charles Curtis

    February 8

  • Ivan Pavlov

    February 27

  • David Beatty

    March 12

  • Maxim Gorky

    June 18

  • John Heisman

    October 3
More 1936 Deaths

  • America's Last Public Hanging

    The last man to be publicly hanged in the United States met his fate on this day in history. It was a squalid affair watched by about 10,000 people.August 14

  • A Kiss For Adolf Hitler

    A woman spectator leaned over and kissed Adolf Hitler at the Berlin Olympic Games on this day. Hitler pretended to be amused, but his guards were to suffer.August 15
  • Jan 1 Austrian-American "Casablanca" actor Paul Henreid (27) weds Elizabeth Camilla Julia Gluck (27), until his death in 1992
  • Jan 10 American actor Burgess Meredith (28) weds actress Margaret Perry (22)
  • Feb 2 Physicist Emilio G. Segrè (31) weds Elfriede Spiro at the Great Synagogue of Rome in Italy
  • Jan 10 Actress Mary Pickford (44) divorces actor Douglas Fairbanks (52) after 15 years of marriage
  • Mar 2 Film director D. W. Griffith (61) divorces Linda Arvidson (50) after 30 years of marriage
More 1936 Weddings

  • Luise Rainer

    Oscar for Best Actress

  • Paul Muni

    Oscar for Best Actor

  • Wallis Simpson

    Time Personof the Year
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  • Franklin D. RooseveltUnited States of America
  • Joseph StalinSoviet Union
  • Stanley BaldwinUnited Kingdom
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