WHAT HAPPENED IN 1936.
Look what happened the 1936.

The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio. (15. January 1936)

Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom. (20. January 1936)

The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced. (29. January 1936)

Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically. (4. February 1936)

Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders. (10. February 1936)

Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain. (16. February 1936)

In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government. (26. February 1936)

Baby Snooks, played by Fanny Brice, debuts on the radio program The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air. (29. February 1936)

February 26 Incident in Tokyo ends. (29. February 1936)

The Hoover Dam is completed. (1. March 1936)

A strike occurs aboard the S.S. California, leading to the demise of the International Seamen's Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union. (1. March 1936)

First flight of Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom. (5. March 1936)

Prelude to World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland. (7. March 1936)

Daytona Beach Road Course holds its first oval stock car race. (8. March 1936)

The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall. (There had been a part-talkie, part-silent version of Show Boat in 1929.) (14. March 1936)

Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers and lead to a major flood in Pittsburgh. (16. March 1936)

In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters. (29. March 1936)

Odisha formerly known as Kalinga or Utkal becomes a state in India. (1. April 1936)

Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh. (3. April 1936)

Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi. (5. April 1936)