Henkels & McCoy takes First Prize at
the Philadelphia Flower Show for the third consecutive year. The
prize is again awarded in the category of Outdoor Lounge.
February 16
Social revolutionaries win power in Spanish national elections.
Chaos erupts as farms become collectivized, strikes cripple economy,
churches are attacked.
April 30
Invention of coaxial cable is announced at a joint meeting of the
American Physical Society and the IRE.
May 9
Fascist Italy annexes Ethiopia.July 11
New York City's Triborough Bridge opens, connecting Manhattan to
Queens and the Bronx.
July 17
Spanish Civil War erupts.
The "People's Olympics," an alternative site for games is scheduled
to occur in Barcelona but are cancelled when the Spanish Civil War
breaks out. Spanish Nationalist leader, General Francisco Franco,
commanding a garrison in Spanish Morocco, breaks through Republican
naval blockade with help from Hitler’s Luftwaffe and Mussolini’s Air
Force.
August 1 - 16
Berlin, awarded the Games in 1931, two years before the Nazis seize
power, is the scene of the 1936 Summer Olympics. Adolf Hitler
attempts to use the games as a way to showcase the efficiency and
might of his regime. However, American Gold Medal winner Jesse Owens
and other non-Aryan athletes dispel the Nazi myth of racial
superiority. Owens takes four golds in Berlin -- more than any other
individual athlete.
November 1
Spanish Republican forces are in defensive positions in Madrid,
Barcelona and Valenicia. Soviet ruler Josef Stalin sends tanks and
planes to aid cities. Hitler and Mussolini volunteer military
assistance and material to Franco.
November 3
FDR reelected president, in a landslide over Alfred M. Landon..
December 10
Edward VIII abdicates British throne to marry American divorcee
Wallis Simpson.
December 12
Henry Hudson Bridge opens, connecting Manhattan and the Bronx.
programming per day.