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1936 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2048. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1936 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1936

• January 24, 1936 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Rat in Chinese astrology.
• March 1, 1936 – The Hoover Dam is completed.
• March 8, 1936 – Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
• March 29, 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.
• April 6, 1936 – Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
• April 15, 1936 – First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
• June 7, 1936 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray was elected its first president.
• June 26, 1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
• August 4, 1936 – Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.
• December 21, 1936 – First flight of the Junkers Ju 88 multi-role combat aircraft.

Who Were Born On 1936?

• February 20, 1936 – Marj Dusay, American actress
• March 6, 1936 – Bob Akin, American race car driver and journalist (d. 2002)
• April 3, 1936 – Jimmy McGriff, American organist and bandleader (d. 2008)
• April 9, 1936 – Jerzy Maksymiuk, Polish pianist, composer, and conductor
• April 18, 1936 – Tommy Ivo, American actor and race car driver
• April 20, 1936 – Pauli Ellefsen, Faroese technician, surveyor, and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 2012)
• June 30, 1936 – Assia Djebar, Algerian-French author and translator (d. 2015)
• July 9, 1936 – Richard Wilson, Scottish actor and director
• September 15, 1936 – Sara Henderson, Australian farmer and author (d. 2005)
• October 14, 1936 – Hans Kraay, Dutch footballer and manager