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1936
 
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The Italian forces invading Ethiopia reach Addis Ababa, and Haile Selassie flees into exile       
1936
 
    
García Lorca writes his play The House of Bernarda Alba in the last year of his short life       
1936
 
    
US author Margaret Mitchell publishes her one book, which becomes probably the best-selling novel of all time – Gone with the Wind       
1936
 
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Stalin stages the first of the Moscow show trials, designed to eliminate any surviving high-level opponents      
1936
 
    
Membership of the Hitler Youth (for boys) or the League of German Maidens is made compulsory       
1936
 
    
In response to the gang violence of Oswald Mosley's black-shirted thugs, a Public Order Act in the UK bans political uniforms       
1936
 
    
British mathematician Alan Turing writes an influential paper On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidung Problem       
1936
 
     
Paul Robeson sings 'Ol' Man River' in the film of Jerome Kern's Showboat        
1936
 
   
Maxim Gorky dies in suspicious circumstances while undergoing routine medical treatment in the USSR      
1936
 
    
William Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom! chronicles the violently destructive rise and fall of a poor Southern white, Thomas Sutpen       
1936
 
    
John Maynard Keynes defines his economics in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money       
1936
 
    
Hitler gives Reinhard Heydrich control of the Gestapo       
1936
 
    
A rebellion by Spanish troops in Morocco is soon led by Francisco Franco and sparks the Spanish Civil War       
1936
 
    
Mussolini appoints his son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, as his minister for foreign affairs       
1936
 
     
In Language, Truth and Logic 26-year-old A.J. Ayer produces a classic exposition of Logical Positivism        
1936
 
    
At the Berlin Olympics, attended by Hitler, the African-American athlete Jesse Owens sets three new Olympic records and equals a fourth       
1936
 
    
Terence Rattigan's first play, French without Tears, is performed in London       
1936
 
     
In the first month of the Spanish Civil War the playwright García Lorca is arrested and shot by rebel Falange militia        
1936
 
     
Alexander Korda's bleakly visionary film Things to Come is based on the H.G. Wells novel of 1933        
1936
 
     
On Stalin's orders Dmitry Shostakovich is attacked in Pravda for providing 'chaos instead of music'        
1936
 
    
The prototype of the Spitfire, designed by Reginald Mitchell, has its first test flight       
1936
 
    
Carl Orff's cantata Carmina Burana has its premiere in Frankfurt       
1936
 
   
Rachmaninov completes his Third Symphony, and records it two years later with the Philadelphia Orchestra      
1936
 
    
French-born US author Anaïs Nin publishes her first novel, The House of Incest       
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Unemployed English workers march for 26 days from Jarrow, in Tyne and Wear, to demonstrate at Westminster      
1936
 
    
Wallis Simpson wins a decree nisi against her second husband and is therefore free to marry Edward VIII       
1936
 
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Hitler and Mussolini form an axis, or alliance, causing Germany and Italy to become known as the Axis powers        
1936
 
    
US publisher Henry Luce launches a new picture magazine, calling it simply Life       
1936
 
    
Francisco Franco is elected head of state of the insurgent Nationalist Spain, at this time controlling only a fraction of the country       
1936
 
   
The British Broadcasting Corporation puts out its first high-definition public television broadcast      
1936
 
    
The first volunteers in the International Brigade arrive in Spain to fight for the Republican cause in the civil war       
1936
 
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The Febreristas, a newly formed left-wing group, seize power in Paraguay      
1936
 
   
The Spanish Civil War causes the Basque designer Cristobal Balenciaga to move his business to Paris, capital of the fashion world      
1936
 
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Edward VIII informs Baldwin, the UK prime minister, that he intends to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson        
1936
 
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Germany and Japan establish an Anti-Comintern Pact against their common enemy, the USSR       
1936
 
   
F.D. Roosevelt is elected for a second US presidential term with an increased share of the vote