" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

Subsequent formalizations were framed as attempts to define " effective calculability " or " effective method "; those formalizations included the Gödel – Herbrand – Kleene recursive functions of 1930, 1934 and 1935, Alonzo Church's lambda calculus of 1936, Emil Post's " Formulation 1 " of 1936, and Alan Turing's Turing machines of 1936 – 7 and 1939.

* 1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.

* 1936 – Helen Berman, Dutch-Israeli artist

* 1936 – Charles Napier, American actor ( d. 2011 )

* 1869 – Hans Poelzig, German architect, painter, and set designer ( d. 1936 )

* 1936 – Joel Kovel, American politician, scholar, and author

* 1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.

* 1936 – Julián Javier, American baseball player

* 1936 – Patrick Tse, Hong Kong director

In 1936 – 37 Bradman succeeded Woodfull as Australian captain.

* 1882 – Red Ames, American baseball player ( d. 1936 )

* 1887 – Tommy Ward, South African cricketer ( d. 1936 )

* 2005 – Jack Keller, American songwriter ( b. 1936 )

* 1936 – W. D. Hamilton, English biologist ( d. 2000 )

* 1936 – Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer ( d. 2008 )

The name Port Radium did not come into use until 1936 and at the time it was in reference to the region as a whole.

* 1936 – Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.

* 1936 – Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII's abdication as King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India becomes effective.

* 1936 – Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom.

Prince Albert becomes King George VI in December 1936 after the abdication of his older brother, Edward VIII.

* 1936 Mertzon becomes county seat.

García Lorca wrote little poetry in this last period of his life, declaring in 1936, “ theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair .”

6, 4 ; March 1936 ) A waterfront coolie from Hong Kong becomes the war master of Asia and Russia and armed with a new weapon which makes the bravest man a craven coward, he marches ruthlessly to conquer the world.

His flagging career was helped with Wolf's Clothing ( 1936 ), which starred him as a dithering diplomat, and Honeymoon-Merry-Go-Round ( 1940 ), where he played a bumbling bridegroom who unintentionally becomes an ice-hockey star.

Following the Francoist revolt and start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, Carvalho Calero becomes a volunteer combatant for the Spanish Republic, achieving the rank of lieutenant in the Spanish Republican Army.

His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.

In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

* 1936 – The first Champions Day is celebrated in Detroit, Michigan.

The first use of this torch was for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

German volunteers first used armour in live field conditions during the Spanish Civil War of 1936.

Cans were first introduced in 1936, which helped sales to climb.

Bundaberg rum was first produced in 1888, production ceased from 1907 to 1914 and from 1936 to 1939 after fires, the second of which caused rum from the factory to spill into the nearby Burnett River.

Bacardi's transition into an international brand was due mostly to Schueg's " business genius "; Schueg " branded Cuba as the home of rum, and Bacardi as the king of rums " and expanded overseas, first to Mexico ( 1931 ), then to Puerto Rico ( 1936 ), under the brand name Ron Bacardi.

Modern Times ( 1936 ), which depicted factory workers in dismal conditions, was the first of his films that was seen by critics to contain an anti-capitalist message, although Chaplin denied the film being in any way political.

This made Colorado only the third team in the last half-century, and the first in the National League since the 1936 New York Giants, to have a 20 – 1 stretch at any point of a season.

* Miller / Clark chronology — A Probable Outline of Conan's Career ( 1936 ) was the first effort to put the tales in chronological order.

* 1936 – The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike.

The Red Wings won their first Stanley Cup in 1936, defeating Toronto in four games.

In 1934 the British military began to make strides toward radar ( which also uses the magnetron ) under the direction of Dr Wimperis, culminating in the operation of the first radar station at Bawdsey in August 1936.

Early electric guitar manufacturers include: Rickenbacker ( first called Ro-Pat-In ) in 1932, Dobro in 1933, National, AudioVox and Volu-tone in 1934, Vega, Epiphone ( Electrophone and Electar ), and Gibson in 1935 and many others by 1936.

Gibson's first production electric guitar, marketed in 1936, was the ES-150 model (" ES " for " Electric Spanish "; and " 150 " reflecting the $ 150 price of the instrument, along with a matching amplifier ).

" The first of those was Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), for which Capra won his second Best Director Oscar.

The first textbook on graph theory was written by Dénes Kőnig, and published in 1936.

Isaac Isaacs | Sir Isaac Isaacs, the first Australian-born Governor-General, 1931 – 1936

Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936, is a romance novel written by Margaret Mitchell, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937.

By 1936 Goren had begun his own bridge career and published the first of his many books on playing bridge, Winning Bridge Made Easy.

Working in isolation in Germany, Konrad Zuse started construction in 1936 of his first Z-series calculators featuring memory and ( initially limited ) programmability.