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| 1936 |
| | | Edward VIII, forced to choose between the British throne and Wallis Simpson, opts for the path of love and abdicates | |
|  | Edward VIII's letter of abdication in 1936
National Archives, Kew
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| 1936 |
| | | Edward VIII is succeeded on the British throne by his brother, as George VI | |
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| 1936 |
| | | Hungarian photographer Robert Capa achieves an unprecedented immediacy in his coverage of the Spanish Civil War | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Anastasio Somoza makes himself president of Nicaragua, beginning four decades of brutal rule by his family | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Joe Louis, 'The Brown Bomber', defeats James J. Braddock to become world heavyweight champion | |
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| 1937 |
| | | French film director Jean Renoir makes La Grande Illusion, set in World War I | |
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| 1937 |
| | | US trombonist Glenn Miller forms his first band, the Glenn Miller Orchestra | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Pope Pius XI issues an encyclical, Mit Brennender Sorge, condemning the Nazi ideology of racism | |
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| 1937 |
| | | The Nationalist leader in Spain, Francisco Franco, merges Falange with other right-wing parties to form the Movimento | |
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| 1937 |
| | | German planes bomb the Basque capital, Guernica, in support of the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War | |
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