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News and Events of 1936

World Events

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Nobel Peace Prize:
Carlos de S. Lamas (Argentina)

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Rome-Berlin Axis is proclaimed (Japan to join in 1940).
King George V dies; succeeded by son, Edward VIII, who soon abdicates to marry an American-born divorcée, and is succeeded by brother, George VI.
Spanish civil war begins. Hundreds of Americans join the "Lincoln Brigades." (Franco's fascist forces defeat Loyalist forces by 1939, when Madrid falls.)
War between China and Japan begins, to continue through World War II.
Japan and Germany sign anti-Comintern pact; joined by Italy in 1937.
Gen. Anastasio Somoza leads a coup d'etat in Nicaragua ushering in Somoza family dictatorship for more than 4 decades.

President: Franklin D Roosevelt
Vice President: John N. Garner
Population: 128,053,180

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FDR is reelected in a landslide. The Electoral Vote is 523-8. Background: US Presidential Elections, 1789–present
Dust Bowl problem continues in the midwest.

Federal spending:   $8.23 billion
Consumer Price Index:   13.9
Unemployment:   16.9%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.03

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NY Yankees d. NY Giants (4-2)

Detroit d. Toronto (3-1)

Women: Helen Jacobs d. H.K. Sperling (6-2 4-6 7-5)
Men: Fred Perry d. G. von Cramm (6-1 6-1 6-0)

Bold Venture

Minnesota (7-1-0)

Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: Honey in the Horn, Harold L. Davis
Drama: Idiot's Delight, Robert E. Sherwood

Oscars awarded in 1936
Academy Award, Best Picture: Mutiny on the Bounty (MGM)

Nobel Prize for Literature: Eugene O'Neill (US)

Miss America: Rose Coyle (PA)

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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) debuts the world's first television service with three hours of programming a day.
Electric guitars debut.
Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind published.

Chemistry: Peter J. W. Debye (Netherlands), for investigations on dipole moments and diffraction of X-rays and electrons in gases

Physics: Victor F. Hess (Austria), for discovery of cosmic radiation; and Carl D. Anderson (US), for discovery of the positron

Physiology or Medicine: Sir Henry Dale (UK) and Otto Loewi (Germany), for discoveries on chemical transmission of nerve impulses

Alexis Carrel and Charles Lindbergh develop the first artificial heart.
The Boulder Dam, which creates the largest artificial reservoir in the U.S. and provides power to 1.5 million people, is completed.
The first successful helicopter flight is made.