Historical Events in 1936 (Part 2)

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• Aug 2 A Finnish trifecta in the 10,000m final at the Berlin Olympics; Ilmari Salminen beats teammates Arvo Askola and Volmari Iso-Hollo
• Aug 2 Americans Cornelius Johnson, Dave Albritton and Delos Thurber sweep the high jump medals at the Berlin Olympics

• Aug 3 Karl Hein (56.49 Olympic record) and Erwin Blask make it a German 1-2 in the hammer throw at the Berlin Olympics
• Aug 4 American athlete Jesse Owens wins his 2nd gold medal at the Berlin Olympics; beats German Luz Long in the long jump final with an Olympic record
• Aug 4 American Helen Stephens runs 11.5 to win the 100m at the Berlin Olympics, beating controversial intersex athlete Stanisława Walasiewicz of Poland
• Aug 4 Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas leads a 'self-coup' giving him authoritarian control of the country
• Aug 5 American athlete Jesse Owens wins 200m in world record time (20.7s), his 3rd gold medal of the Berlin Olympics
• Aug 5 Italian athlete Ondina Valla runs a world record 11.6 in the semi finals of the 80m hurdles at the Berlin Olympics; wins final the next day but can't match the time
• Aug 5 Ken Carpenter (50.48 Olympic record) and Gordon Dunn make it an American 1-2 in the men’s discus throw at the Berlin Olympics
• Aug 6 American athlete Forrest Towns runs world record 14.1 in 110m hurdles semi finals at the Berlin Olympics; later can't match the time but wins the gold medal in the final
• Aug 6 Jack Lovelock of New Zealand runs a world record (3:47.8) to win the gold medal in the 1,500m at the Berlin Olympics
• Aug 6 Japanese athletes quinella the triple jump at the Berlin Olympics; Naoto Tajima wins gold and Masao Harada silver
• Aug 7 A Finnish quinella in the 5,000m final at the Berlin Olympics; Gunnar Höckert runs an Olympic record to beat teammate Lauri Lehtinen
• Aug 7 Argentina wins the polo gold medal beating Great Britain 11-0 in the final at the Berlin Olympics; final time the sport is contested at the Olympics
• Aug 8 A Finnish quinella in the 3,000m steeplechase at the Berlin Olympics; Volmari Iso-Hollo beats teammate Kaarlo Tuominen in world record time (9:03.8)
• Aug 8 American Glenn Morris' decathlon total of 7,254 points is a world record; teammates Bob Clark & Jack Parker complete US sweep in the gruelling event at the Berlin Olympics
• Aug 8 Corbett National Park and Tiger Reserve founded in Uttarakhand, British India, as Hailey National Park (later renamed) - India's first National Park [1]
• Aug 9 Helen Stephens claims the women's sprint double at the Berlin Olympics having won the 100m and as part of the victorious American 4 x 100m relay team
• Aug 9 Hungarian swimmer Ferenc Csik wins 100m freestyle gold medal in 57.6 at the Berlin Olympics, beating Japanese pair Masanori Yusa & Shigeo Arai
• Aug 9 Jesse Owens is part of the American 4 x 100m relay team that wins gold in world record (39.8) at the Berlin Olympics; his 4th gold medal of the Games
• Aug 9 Korean nationals representing Japan earn medals in the marathon at the Berlin Olympics; Sohn Kee-chung won gold and Nam Sung-yong bronze
• Aug 10 114°F (46°C) at Plain Dealing, Louisiana (state record)
• Aug 10 120°F (49°C) at Ozark, Arkansas (state record)
• Aug 10 First time the Olympic cycling road race is conducted as a mass start event with Frenchmen Robert Charpentier and Guy Lapébie taking gold and silver, and France winning the teams gold medal
• Aug 11 Chaing Kai-shek's troops conquers Kanton
• Aug 12 120°F (49°C), Seymour, Texas (state record)
• Aug 12 After 24 year absence a baseball demonstration game is played between 2 American teams at Berlin Olympics, World Champions beat US Olympics, 6-5
• Aug 12 American diver Marjorie Gestring wins 3m springboard gold at the Berlin Olympics, youngest Olympic gold medalist (13 years 268 days)
• Aug 12 The gymnastics competition at the Berlin Olympics concludes with Germany dominating, winning 6 of 9 gold medals including the men’s & women’s teams events
• Aug 13 Americans Dorothy Poynton-Hil and Velma Dunn take the gold and silver medals in the 10m platform diving at the Berlin Olympics
• Aug 13 Nida Senff and Rie Mastenbroek make it a Dutch 1-2 in the women’s 100m backstroke final at the Berlin Olympics
• Aug 13 Rie Mastenbroek of the Netherlands swims an Olympic record 1:05.9 to win the women’s 100m freestyle at the Berlin Olympics, beating Jeannette Campbell of Argentina by 0:05
• Aug 14 American swimmers Adolph Kiefer and Al Vande Veghe quinella the 100m backstroke at the Berlin Olympics
• Aug 14 Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last public execution in the United States
• Aug 14 The Berlin Olympics rowing competition concludes with Germany winning 5 of 7 gold medals, although the United States wins the coveted eights gold
• Aug 15 Americans make a clean sweep of the 3m diving medals via Marjorie Gestring, Katherine Rawls and Dorothy Poynton-Hill at the Berlin Olympics
• Aug 15 Annibale Frossi scores twice as Italy beats Austria 2-1 in extra time in the soccer final at the Berlin Olympics

• Aug 15 Marshall Wayne and Elbert Root make it an American 1-2 in the 10m platform diving at the Berlin Olympics
• Aug 15 The Berlin Olympic fencing competition concludes with Italy winning 4 of the 7 gold medals and Hungary taking the other 3
• Aug 16 The Berlin Olympic equestrian competition concludes with Germany winning all 6 gold medals in an unprecedented team achievement
• Aug 16 XI Summer Olympic Games close in Berlin
• Aug 17 An unemployed worker, Neils B. Ruud, in Madison, Wisconsin, receives the first unemployment benefit check paid under a State law, for $15
• Aug 19 Trial against Ljev Kamenev & Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow

• Aug 24 Australian Antarctic Territory created

• Aug 25 3 Braves hit twice in an inning getting 2 hits each
• Aug 25 Odourless cornstarch is patented in the US by Ralph W. Kerr
• Sep 1 Belgian boxer Gustave Roth beats Heinz Lazek of Austria in a 15 round points decision to win the EBU and vacant IBU world light heavyweight title in Vienna
• Sep 2 First transatlantic "ping-pong" round-trip air flight from New York to England and back begins, piloted by Dick Merrill with Harry Richman
• Sep 2 NFL Chicago College All-Star Game: All-Stars 7, Detroit Lions 7; 76,000 at Soldier Field

• Sep 4 British-Kenyan aviator Beryl Markham takes off from Abingdon in England on a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean; crash-lands at Baleine Cove on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, becoming the 1st woman to make the east-west trip [1]
• Sep 4 Largo Caballero becomes Spanish premier

• Sep 7 The last surviving member of the marsupial thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in his/her cage at the Hobart Zoo (Hobart, Tasmania, Australia)

• Sep 9 New York Yankees beat Cleveland Indians, 12-9 at League Park to clinch AL pennant on the earliest date in history
• Sep 11 A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game
• Sep 13 17-year-old Cleveland Indians future Baseball HOF pitcher Bob Feller strikes out then record 17 Philadelphia A's in 5-2 win at League Park, Cleveland

• Sep 14 1st 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 to Generalissimo and Supreme Commander
• Sep 25 Joe Medwick sets a still-standing NL record with his 64th double
• Sep 27 Boston Redskins and Brooklyn Dodgers play one of only 4 penalty free games in NFL history; Boston wins 14-3 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn

• Sep 27 Francisco Franco's nationalist Army of Africa captures the Alcázar of Toledo after a two month siege
• Sep 27 Netherlands leave Gold Standard/devaluate guilder
• Sep 28 Bachelor's Children debuts on CBS radio (at 9:45 am)
• Sep 29 Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign
• Sep 30 International Commission of Straits (Dardanelles & Bosphorus) ends
• Sep 30 Pinewood Studios opens in Buckinghamshire England
• Oct 1 Generalissimo Francisco Franco establishes state of Spain
• Oct 2 1st alcohol power plant forms, Atchison, Kansas
• Oct 2 Amsterdam's Calvinist Churches reject Nazism
• Oct 2 French franc devalued, relatively late and after Britain (1931) and the US (1933)
• Oct 4 Italian lire devalued
• Oct 5 The Jarrow March sets off for London

• Oct 9 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles
• Oct 11 "Professor Quiz" first radio quiz show premieres
• Oct 13 Explosion caused by leaking gas rips out section 12 of Cleve Stadium

• Oct 19 HR Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18½ days

• Oct 20 Spanish government moves to Barcelona
• Oct 22 1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii

• Oct 31 The Boy Scouts of the Philippines formed

• Nov 1 Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (then Cowboys' Turtle Association) is established after disagreement with rodeo promoter W.T. Johnson, who finally gives in to cowboys' pay demands
• Nov 2 At 3pm the BBC begins the world's first regular high-definition TV broadcast service from specially constructed studios at Alexandra Palace, North London
• Nov 2 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is established
• Nov 3 President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins a second term in office, defeating Republican candidate Alf Landon in the most lopsided election in American history in terms of electoral vote

• Nov 6 RCA displays TV for press

• Nov 7 Battle of Madrid begins
• Nov 9 Albanian government of Frasheri falls
• Nov 9 American fashion designer Ruth Harkness captures a panda cub (Su Lin) in China - becomes 1st live panda cub to enter the US
• Nov 12 1st ever TV Gardening show "In Your Garden" shown on BBC television

• Nov 12 Oakland Bay Bridge opens
• Nov 12 St Louis Browns sold to Donald L Barnes & William O DeWitt
• Nov 15 Nazi-Germany & Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact
• Nov 16 German air force begins bombing of Madrid
• Nov 17 Edgar Bergen and dummy Charlie McCarthy become an overnight success on radio
• Nov 18 Germany & Italy recognize Spanish government of Francisco Franco
• Nov 18 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined

• Nov 23 1st issue of Life picture magazine created by Henry R. Luce published

• Nov 24 German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for uncovering German re-armament

• Nov 25 Germany & Japan sign anti-Komintern pact
• Nov 28 Spanish comic playwright Pedro Muñoz Seca comments "I am starting to believe you are not intending to count me among your friends!" before being executed by the Republican army
• Nov 30 London's Crystal Palace (built 1851) destroyed by fire
• Dec 1 2nd Heisman Trophy Award: Larry Kelley, Yale (E)
• Dec 1 Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use
• Dec 1 Ernest Brundin & Frank Lyon obtain US patent for hydroponic (soil-less) culture of plants
• Dec 5 Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Georgian SSR, Kazakh SSR & Kirghiz SSR becomes constituent republics of Soviet Union
• Dec 8 Anastasio Somoza García elected President of Nicaragua
• Dec 8 NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black & white teachers
• Dec 9 AL OKs night baseball for St Louis

• Dec 10 Britain replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI

• Dec 10 Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry

• Dec 12 1937 NFL Draft: Sam Francis from University of Nebraska first pick by Philadelphia Eagles

• Dec 15 KVL-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KEEN (now KING)
• Dec 16 John Monks and Fred Finklehoff's play "Brother Rat" premieres in New York City
• Dec 17 Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and dummy Charlie McCarthy appear on TV
• Dec 18 Queensland cricket all out for 49 v Vic, Fleetwood-Smith 7-17
• Dec 18 Su-Lin, 1st giant panda to come to US from China, arrives in San Francisco
• Dec 21 Master batsman Don Bradman has a rare embarrassment - a 2nd consecutive Test duck (0), as England dismisses Australia for 80 in the 2nd Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground
• Dec 22 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa
• Dec 23 Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty
• Dec 24 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered in Berkeley, California
• Dec 25 Belgian bishops condemn fascism & communism
• Dec 25 Ron Hamence scores 104 for SA v Queensland before 4,865
• Dec 26 Israel's Philarmonic Orchestra forms

• Dec 30 United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant

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