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| 1936 |
| | | The Italian forces invading Ethiopia reach Addis Ababa, and Haile Selassie flees into exile | |
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| 1936 |
| | | García Lorca writes his play The House of Bernarda Alba in the last year of his short life | |
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| 1936 |
| | | US author Margaret Mitchell publishes her one book, which becomes probably the best-selling novel of all time – Gone with the Wind | |
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| 1936 |
| | | Stalin stages the first of the Moscow show trials, designed to eliminate any surviving high-level opponents | |
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| 1936 |
| | | Membership of the Hitler Youth (for boys) or the League of German Maidens is made compulsory | |
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| 1936 |
| | | In response to the gang violence of Oswald Mosley's black-shirted thugs, a Public Order Act in the UK bans political uniforms | |
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| 1936 |
| | | British mathematician Alan Turing writes an influential paper On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidung Problem | |
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| 1936 |
| | | Paul Robeson sings 'Ol' Man River' in the film of Jerome Kern's Showboat | |
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| 1936 |
| | | Maxim Gorky dies in suspicious circumstances while undergoing routine medical treatment in the USSR | |
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| 1936 |
| | | William Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom! chronicles the violently destructive rise and fall of a poor Southern white, Thomas Sutpen | |
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