In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire The destruction of the Crystal Palace by fire in 1936 marked a dramatic end to one…
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9 August 1936
Summer Olympics: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games. Jesse Owens, born James Cleveland Owens in 1913, was an American track and…
30 November 1936
In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire. The Crystal Palace was a revolutionary iron and glass structure originally built in London to house…
9 August 1936
Summer Olympics: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games. Jesse Owens was an American track and field athlete who is most famous…
21 May 1936
Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover’s severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes…
8 March 1936
Daytona Beach race track holds its first oval stock car race. Even though the new crop of NASCAR race cars mimics the look of models…
7 March 1936
In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland. The remilitarization of the Rhineland by the German Army began…