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1936
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Henkels & McCoy takes First Prize at the Philadelphia Flower Show for the third consecutive year. The prize is again awarded in the category of Outdoor Lounge.
February 16
Social revolutionaries win power in Spanish national elections. Chaos erupts as farms become collectivized, strikes cripple economy, churches are attacked.
April 30
Invention of coaxial cable is announced at a joint meeting of the American Physical Society and the IRE.
May 9
Fascist Italy annexes Ethiopia.
July 11
New York City's Triborough Bridge opens, connecting Manhattan to Queens and the Bronx.
July 17
Spanish Civil War erupts.
The "People's Olympics," an alternative site for games is scheduled to occur in Barcelona but are cancelled when the Spanish Civil War breaks out. Spanish Nationalist leader, General Francisco Franco, commanding a garrison in Spanish Morocco, breaks through Republican naval blockade with help from Hitler’s Luftwaffe and Mussolini’s Air Force.
August 1 - 16
Berlin, awarded the Games in 1931, two years before the Nazis seize power, is the scene of the 1936 Summer Olympics. Adolf Hitler attempts to use the games as a way to showcase the efficiency and might of his regime. However, American Gold Medal winner Jesse Owens and other non-Aryan athletes dispel the Nazi myth of racial superiority. Owens takes four golds in Berlin -- more than any other individual athlete.
November 1
Spanish Republican forces are in defensive positions in Madrid, Barcelona and Valenicia. Soviet ruler Josef Stalin sends tanks and planes to aid cities. Hitler and Mussolini volunteer military assistance and material to Franco.
November 3
FDR reelected president, in a landslide over Alfred M. Landon..
December 10
Edward VIII abdicates British throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
December 12
Henry Hudson Bridge opens, connecting Manhattan and the Bronx.
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Also in 1936:
Eugene Ormandy becomes associate conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski, and will lead following Stokowski’s departure, five years later. Ormandy will create an orchestra famous for its warm, romantic sound. At age 5, the Hungarian-born future maestro was the youngest pupil in the history of the Royal Academy of Music, in Budapest. By age 10, he was performing for the royal family of Austria-Hungary.
TWANG! The electric guitar makes its debut.
Fluorescent lighting is invented.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins the world's first television service with three hours of programming per day.
The cost to mail a letter in the US is 3 cents.
The US unemployment rate is nearly 17%.
Photo:
Nipomo, California, March 1936. Migrant agricultural worker's family. Seven hungry children. Mother aged 32. Father is a native Californian.
Photograph: Dorothea Lange, Library of Congress
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