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…
Tag: 1936
30 December 1936
The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike. At 8 p.m. on December 30, 1936, in one of the first sit-down strikes in…
30 November 1936
The Crystal Palace in London is destroyed by fire. On November 30, 1936, the Crystal Palace, an iconic structure which had come to epitomise the…
1 August 1936
The 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin are opened by Adolf Hitler. In 1933, Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany and quickly turned…
15 June 1936
The first flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber. The Wellington, which served Bomber Command so well in the early years of World War II, is…
1 March 1936
The Hoover Dam is finished. Hoover Dam, also known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete gravity-arch dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River,…
30 November 1936
The Crystal Palace in London is destroyed by fire. On November 30, 1936, the Crystal Palace, an iconic structure which had come to epitomise the…
21 May 1936
Sada Abe is arrested in Tokyo with her dead lover’s severed genitals in her handbag.