40 events found for 1936
Spanish Civil War: Germany and Italy decide to intervene in the war in support for Francisco Franco and the…
King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the throne, officially unveils the Canadian…
The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August…
Summer Olympics: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.
Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
Spanish Civil War: Santander falls to the Nationalists and the Republican Interprovincial Council is dissolved.
Nazi Germany begins its mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses, who are interned in concentration camps.
The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.
Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
Spanish Civil War: Largo Caballero forms a war cabinet to direct the republican war effort.
Spanish Civil War: The Interprovincial Council of Asturias and León is established.
The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRP Afonso de Albuquerque and destroyer Dão mutinied against the Salazar…
The first world individual Speedway World Championship was held at London's Wembley Stadium.
Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaurès, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza.