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Date	Event
January 8, 1936	Kashf-e hijab decree is made and immediately enforced by Reza Shah, Iran's head of state, banning the wearing of Islamic veils in public.
January 15, 1936	The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
January 20, 1936	King George V of the United Kingdom dies. His eldest son succeeds to the throne, becoming Edward VIII. The title Prince of Wales is not used for another 22 years.
January 29, 1936	The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
February 10, 1936	Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launch the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
February 16, 1936	The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.
February 26, 1936	In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
February 29, 1936	The February 26 Incident in Tokyo ends.
March 5, 1936	First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
March 8, 1936	Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
March 16, 1936	Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh.
March 29, 1936	The 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for the recent remilitarization of the Rhineland.
April 3, 1936	Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
April 5, 1936	Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
April 6, 1936	Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
April 15, 1936	First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
April 27, 1936	The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
May 5, 1936	Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
May 9, 1936	Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
May 21, 1936	Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
May 26, 1936	In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for ten hours.
May 28, 1936	Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
June 11, 1936	The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.
June 15, 1936	First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
June 26, 1936	Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
June 28, 1936	The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
June 30, 1936	Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy's invasion of his country.
July 6, 1936	A major breach of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet (61 m) into the River Irwell.
July 11, 1936	The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
July 17, 1936	Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
July 18, 1936	On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état
July 19, 1936	Spanish Civil War: The CNT and UGT call a general strike in Spain – mobilizing workers' militias against the Nationalist forces.
July 20, 1936	The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.
July 21, 1936	Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia is constituted, establishing an anarcho-syndicalist economy in Catalonia.
July 22, 1936	Spanish Civil War: The Popular Executive Committee of Valencia takes power in the Valencian Community.
July 23, 1936	In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
July 26, 1936	Spanish Civil War: Germany and Italy decide to intervene in the war in support for Francisco Franco and the Nationalist faction.
July 26, 1936	King Edward VIII, in one of his few official duties before he abdicates the throne, officially unveils the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.
August 1, 1936	The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
August 3, 1936	Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
August 3, 1936	A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
August 4, 1936	Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
August 9, 1936	Summer Olympics: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.
August 14, 1936	Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
August 19, 1936	The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
August 24, 1936	The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
August 26, 1936	Spanish Civil War: Santander falls to the nationalists and the republican interprovincial council is dissolved.
August 28, 1936	Nazi Germany begins its mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses, who are interned in concentration camps.
August 30, 1936	The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.
August 31, 1936	Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
September 4, 1936	Spanish Civil War: Largo Caballero forms a war cabinet to direct the republican war effort.
September 6, 1936	Spanish Civil War: The Interprovincial Council of Asturias and León is established.
September 7, 1936	The last thylacine, a carnivorous marsupial named Benjamin, dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
September 9, 1936	The crews of Portuguese Navy frigate NRP Afonso de Albuquerque and destroyer Dão mutinied against the Salazar dictatorship's support of General Franco's coup and declared their solidarity with the Spanish Republic.
September 10, 1936	First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium
September 14, 1936	Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaurès, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza.
September 26, 1936	Spanish Civil War: Lluis Companys reshuffles the Generalitat de Catalunya, with the marxist POUM and anarcho-syndicalist CNT joining the government.
October 1, 1936	Spanish Civil War: Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
October 1, 1936	Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia dissolves itself, handing control of Catalan defence militias over to the Generalitat.
October 4, 1936	The Metropolitan Police and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
October 5, 1936	The Jarrow March sets off for London.
October 9, 1936	Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
October 22, 1936	Dod Orsborne, captain of the Girl Pat is convicted of its theft and imprisoned, having caused a media sensation when it went missing.
October 26, 1936	The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
October 27, 1936	Mrs Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
November 2, 1936	The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
November 3, 1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected the 32nd President of the United States.
November 4, 1936	Spanish Civil War: Largo Caballero reshuffles his war cabinet, persuading the anarcho-syndicalist CNT to join the government.
November 6, 1936	Spanish Civil War: The republican government flees from Madrid to Valencia, leading to the formation of the Madrid Defense Council in its stead.
November 7, 1936	Spanish Civil War: The Madrid Defense Council is formed to coordinate the Defense of Madrid against nationalist forces.
November 8, 1936	Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the three-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.
November 12, 1936	In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
November 20, 1936	José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad.
November 25, 1936	In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories.
November 30, 1936	In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
December 5, 1936	The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
December 7, 1936	Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
December 10, 1936	Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
December 11, 1936	Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII's abdication as King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India, becomes effective.
December 21, 1936	First flight of the Junkers Ju 88 multi-role combat aircraft.
December 23, 1936	Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
December 23, 1936	Spanish Civil War: The Spanish Republic legalizes the Regional Defence Council of Aragon.
December 30, 1936	The Flint sit-down strike hits General Motors.