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** ( 1936 ) Yorktown-class aircraft carrier, and the most decorated US Navy ship
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** 1936 Summer Olympics: The United States men's national basketball team wins the first Olympic basketball tournament in the final game over Canada, 19 – 8.
** The British Parliament passes His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936 on behalf of the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
** The Dáil Éireann passes the Executive Authority ( Consequential Provisions ) Act, 1937, which abolishes the office of Governor-General of the Irish Free State, retrospectively dated to December 1936.
** Bobby Darin, American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, dancer, impressionist and TV presenter ( b. 1936 )
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** South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes near Dubuque, Iowa.
** Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi military escorts on board an UNSCOM helicopter try to physically prevent the UNSCOM pilot from flying the helicopter in the direction of its planned destination, threatening the safety of the aircraft and their crews.
** WWII: " Black Friday ": A force of Allied Bristol Beaufighter aircraft suffers heavy casualties in an unsuccessful attack on German destroyer Z33 and escorting vessels sheltering in Førde Fjord, Norway.
** Off the coast of Japan, bombers hit the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing about 800 of her crewmen and crippling the ship.
** Heinkel test pilot Helmut Schenk becomes the first person to escape from a stricken aircraft with an ejection seat.
** The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); the Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy destroyer are sunk off the country's East Coast.
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