1936


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::callout[type=note] 1936 ::

| image_style = border:none;b | perrow = 3/3 | image1 = Guerra Civil. Tomo II (2).jpg | image2 = Berliinin olympialaiset.jpg | image3 = Death and state funeral of George V.jpg | image4 = German troops march into Köln, 1936 (cropped).jpg | image5 = Anti-Comintern Pact signing 1936.jpg | image6 = Lt Nibu Masatada Rebels Feb 26 Incident 1936 (cropped).png | total_width = 350 | footer = From top to bottom, left to right: the Spanish Civil War begins as Franco’s Nationalists rise against the Republicans; at the 1936 Summer Olympics, Jesse Owens wins four gold medals, defying Nazi racial ideology; the death and state funeral of George V shocks Britain, followed by the Abdication of Edward VIII; the Remilitarisation of the Rhineland violates the Treaty of Versailles, emboldening Hitler; the Anti-Comintern Pact is signed by Germany and Japan against the Soviet Union; the February 26 incident, a failed coup attempt in Japan, leads to political purges.

Events

January–February

Main article: January 1936

Main article: February 1936

March–April

Main article: March 1936

Main article: April 1936

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Hoover_Dam_-_Arizona.jpg" caption="[[March 1]]: [[Hoover Dam]] is completed"] ::

May–June

Main article: May 1936

Main article: June 1936

July–August

Main article: July 1936

Main article: August 1936

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Republican_troops_during_the_July_1936_uprising_in_Barcelona.jpg" caption="July 1936 uprising]] in [[Barcelona]], Spain"] ::

September–October

Main article: September 1936

Main article: October 1936

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/"Benjamin".jpg" caption="[[September 7]]: Extinction of [[Thylacine]]."] ::

November–December

Main article: November 1936

Main article: December 1936

Date unknown

Births

January

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/PresidenteSanguinetti.jpg" caption="[[Julio María Sanguinetti"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Lebanon.EmileLahoud.01.jpg" caption="[[Émile Lahoud"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Alan_Alda_by_Bridget_Laudien_(cropped).jpg" caption="[[Alan Alda"] ::

February

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Burt_Reynolds_1991_portrait_crop.jpg" caption="[[Burt Reynolds"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Jim_Brown_at_LBJ_Foundation_2014_(cropped).jpg" caption="[[Jim Brown"] ::

March

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Frederik_Willem_de_Klerk,_1990.jpg" caption="[[F. W. De Klerk"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Ursula_Andress_Cannes_2010.jpg" caption="[[Ursula Andress"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Vargas_Llosa_Madrid_2012.jpg" caption="[[Mario Vargas Llosa"] ::

April

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Glen_Campbell_1967.JPG" caption="[[Glen Campbell"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Roy_Orbison_(1965).jpg" caption="[[Roy Orbison"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/AdolfoNicolas.jpg" caption="[[Adolfo Nicolás"] ::

May

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Albert_Finney_1966.jpg" caption="[[Albert Finney"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Bobby_Darin_1959.JPG" caption="[[Bobby Darin"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Dennis_Hopper_Cannes_2008_(cropped).jpg" caption="[[Dennis Hopper"] ::

June

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Bruce_Dern_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" caption="[[Bruce Dern"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/2018_Kris_Kristofferson_-by_2eight-_DSC5043_cropped.jpg" caption="[[Kris Kristofferson"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Foto_Presiden_Habibie_1998.jpg" caption="[[B. J. Habibie"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Kigeli_V_of_Rwanda_at_the_NLC.jpg" caption="[[Kigeli V of Rwanda"] ::

July

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Shirley_Knight_1960s.JPG" caption="[[Shirley Knight"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Yasuo_Fukuda_200709.jpg" caption="[[Yasuo Fukuda"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Buddy_Guy_2008_(3x4_cropped).jpg" caption="[[Buddy Guy"] ::

August

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Robert_Redford_(cropped).jpg" caption="[[Robert Redford"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Wilt_Chamberlain3.jpg" caption="[[Wilt Chamberlain"] ::

September

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Zine_El_Abidine_Ben_Ali_(cropped).jpg" caption="[[Zine El Abidine Ben Ali"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Buddy_Holly_cropped.JPG" caption="[[Buddy Holly"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Silvio_Berlusconi_(2010)_cropped.jpg" caption="[[Silvio Berlusconi"] ::

October

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Vaclav_Havel.jpg" caption="[[Václav Havel"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Michael_Landon_1990.jpg" caption="[[Michael Landon"] ::

November

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Didier_Ratsiraka_cropped_2.jpg" caption="[[Didier Ratsiraka"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/DonCherry.jpg" caption="Don Cherry"] ::

December

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Aga_Khan_01_(cropped).jpg" caption="[[Aga Khan IV"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Pope_Francis_Korea_Haemi_Castle_19_(4x5_cropped).jpg" caption="[[Pope Francis"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Mary_Tyler_Moore_(5923384167)_crop.jpg" caption="[[Mary Tyler Moore"] ::

Deaths

January

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Louise_Bryant.jpg" caption="[[Louise Bryant"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Rudyard_Kipling_(portrait).jpg" caption="[[Rudyard Kipling"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/King_George_1923_LCCN2014715558_(cropped).jpg" caption="King [[George V]] of the United Kingdom"] ::

February

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Charles_Curtis-portrait.jpg" caption="[[Charles Curtis"] ::

March

April

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Fuad_I_of_Egypt.jpg" caption="King [[Fuad I of Egypt"] ::

May

June

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Maxim_Gorky_LOC_Restored_edit1.jpg" caption="[[Maxim Gorky"] ::

July

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-2004-0720-500,_Georg_Michaelis.jpg" caption="[[Georg Michaelis"] ::

August

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Louis_Bleriot.jpg" caption="[[Louis Bleriot"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Grazia_Deledda_1926.jpg" caption="[[Grazia Deledda"] ::

September

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Buresch,_Karl,_Chancellor_of_Austria,_Agence_Mondial,_BNF_Gallica.jpg" caption="[[Karl Buresch"] ::

October

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/J._E._Sunila.jpg" caption="[[Juho Sunila"] ::

November

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/John_Bowers_(Bowersox).jpg" caption="John Bowers"] ::

December

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Arvid_Lindman.jpg" caption="[[Arvid Lindman"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Luigi_Pirandello_1932.jpg" caption="[[Luigi Pirandello"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/1921_Leonardo_Torres_Quevedo.jpg" caption="[[Leonardo Torres Quevedo"] ::

Nobel Prizes

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Nobel_medal.png"] ::

Note

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