* 1884 – Chandler Egan, American golfer ( d. 1936 )

Happy Chandler created greater efficiency in state government under the Reorganization Act of 1936.

" Happy " Chandler, called a special legislative session in 1936 seeking passage of another reorganization act.

Chandler further proposed to achieve savings through the Governmental Reorganization Act of 1936.

In 1936, Chandler urged implementation of the state's first rural roads program and development of electrical infrastructure with assistance from the federal Rural Electrification Act.

In the 1936 senatorial contest in Kentucky, incumbent Democrat Marvel Mills Logan was seen as vulnerable, and Chandler backed Democratic challenger J. C. W. Beckham in the Democratic primary.

They had three children: Ruth Chandler Roosevelt ( Lindsley ) ( b. 1934 ), Elliott " Tony " Roosevelt Jr. ( b. 1936 ), and David Boynton Roosevelt ( b. 1942 ).

Beckham supported Chandler's bid, and in return Chandler appointed him to the Kentucky Public Service Commission in 1936.

In 1936, the Tejon Ranch Company became a public company, with the Chandler – Sherman group retaining a controlling interest.

Norman Chandler became general manager in 1936, president in 1941 and at his father ’ s death in 1944, the third editor of the newspaper.

On August 6, 1936, the Governor of Kentucky, Albert Chandler, signed Bethea's execution warrant and set the execution for sunrise on August 14.

President Roosevelt, not wanting Democratic factionalism to cost him votes in the 1936 presidential election, attempted to bring together the Laffoon and Chandler factions, but to little avail.

On April 27, 1936, when both Governor Chandler and Lieutenant Governor Keen Johnson attended a baseball game in Cincinnati, President Pro Tem of the Senate James Eugene Wise was left as acting governor and recommissioned all 17, 000 existing colonels.

Reports that the venerable liner, which has been in service since 1936, was to be retired struck a nostalgic note in many of us.

This tax was discontinued in 1936.

Linda accepted the reproach, which was something she did rarely in all her life and most rarely in that summer of 1936 when she was by all odds the prettiest and brightest young woman west of the Allegheny Mountains, and John was surely one of the handsomer and brighter young men around Pittsburgh.

" 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 ).

( This building was in fact built in 1936, decades later than Poirot fictionally moved in.

Cofounder Marc Bloch ( 1886 – 1944 ) was a quintessential modernist who studied at the elite École Normale Supérieure, and in Germany, serving as a professor at the University of Strasbourg until he was called to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1936 as professor of economic history.

Thus, during the abdication crisis of 1936, caused by Edward VIII's desire to marry Wallis Simpson, the consent of all realms concerned, along with, in some cases, new acts of parliament, was required in Britain and throughout the British Dominions to allow for Edward's stepping aside and to ensure that if he had any children they would have no claim to the thrones.

The Australian Constitution, as was noted during the crisis of 1936, contains no power for the federal parliament to legislate with respect to the monarchy.

The book remained in manuscript and was not published until 1936.

* 1936: The site of Manseibashi Station was closed ( later the Transportation Museum — now closed ).

Alfred Edward Housman (; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936 ), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.

In 1936, Whorf was appointed Honorary Research Fellow in Anthropology at Yale, and he was invited by Franz Boas to serve on the committee of the Society of American Linguistics ( later Linguistic Society of America ).

To clarify American sovereignty, Executive Order 7358 was issued on May 13, 1936.

The 1931 census was postponed to 1936 because of the Great Depression.

The reversion to this old regime was formalized under the Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits of July 1936.

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

His 153 not out in Bridgetown, Barbados, during West Indies ' 2 – 2 home series draw against Australia in * 1998 – 1999 was deemed the second greatest Test innings ever played, behind Bradman's 270 against England in the Third Test of the 1936 – 1937 series at Melbourne.

Charles Hardin Holley ( September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959 ), known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll.

Charles Hardin Holley was born on September 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas, to Lawrence Odell and Ella Pauline ( Drake ) Holley.

Ownership of Balmoral, along with Sandringham House in Norfolk, was inherited by Edward VIII on his accession in 1936.

Growth was limited by economic conditions caused by the great depression but thanks in part to the introduction of the metal can in 1936 Budweiser ’ s sales began to climb again.

However, in 1936, thanks to a recommendation made by Sir Alfred Claud Hollis ( Governor of Trinidad and Tobago, 1930 – 36 ), the Leathersellers ' Company awarded him a £ 50 grant to continue his advanced research in history at Oxford.

In 1936 he was one of the first two people to be awarded the Fields Medal.

Ossietzky's international rise to fame began in 1936 when, already suffering from serious tuberculosis that was not being treated, he was awarded the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize.

In 1936, soon after the release of his first book, Patchen was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

In 1936, the RSA awarded the first distinctions of Royal Designers for Industry ( RDI or HonRDI ), reserved for " those very few who in the judgment of their peers have achieved ' sustained excellence in aesthetic and efficient design for industry '".

In 1936, the RSA awarded the first distinctions of Royal Designers for Industry ( RDI or HonRDI ), reserved for " those very few who in the judgment of their peers have achieved ' sustained excellence in aesthetic and efficient design for industry '".

Hamilton was awarded 4, 000 pounds in 1936 by the War Office for the use of his early bridges, the Commission gave him 10, 000 pounds in 1954 for the use ( mainly in Asia ) of his later bridges.

Austin was awarded this title in 1936 by Governor Henry Horner.

* Robert Woodrow Wilson, ( born 1936 ), awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.

In 1908 he was awarded the Lyell Medal, in 1911 made a Fellow of the Royal Society, and from 1920 to 1922 served as the President of the Geological Society of London, dying on 15 July 1936.

Under president Weston Joseph McConnell, the college grew tremendously ; the first master's degrees were awarded in 1936 and the school was given its own Board of Regents in 1949, changing its name once again to North Texas State College.

It was the second to last time this order was awarded ( the last appointment being the Duke of York, later George VI, in 1936 ); at the time of his death the Duke of Gloucester was the only remaining knight.

After several failed attempts, Seversky Aircraft finally won a design competition for a new United States Army Air Corps fighter, and was awarded its first military contract in 1936 for the production of its Seversky P-35.

Since the exit of the Republic of Ireland from the United Kingdom in 1922, titles related to locations in the Republic have not been awarded ( though Prince Edward, Prince of Wales — in 1936 briefly King Edward VIII — was made a Knight of the Order of St Patrick ).

The Grand Prize trophy was awarded to the winner of the Indianapolis 500 between 1930 and 1936, when it was replaced by the Borg-Warner Trophy.

" The Rookie of the Year trophy has been awarded 80 times since its creation for the 1936 – 37 NHL season.

In 1936, Gresley was awarded an honorary DSc by Manchester University and a knighthood by King Edward VIII ; also in that year he presided over the IMechE.

He was awarded the Franklin Medal in 1936.

He was awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects ' ( RIBA's ) Royal Gold Medal for architecture in 1936 and was appointed a Royal Designer for Industry in 1943.

In the 1920s he also donated a substantial amount towards the restoration and rehabilitation of major buildings in France after World War I, such as the Rheims Cathedral, the Château de Fontainebleau and the Château de Versailles, for which in 1936 he was awarded France's highest decoration, the Grand Croix of the Légion d ' honneur ( subsequently also awarded decades later-in 2000-to his son, David Rockefeller ).

For this contribution to maintaining the morale of the populace of London, King George VI awarded her with the Dame Commander of the British Empire ( DBE ) in 1941 ; having previously been created a CBE in 1936.

During the Popular Front, the 1936 Matignon Agreement, to which he was a signatory, awarded many of these rights to French workers.