During the first half of the 20th Century, Labatt Park ( Tecumseh Park until December 31, 1936 ) was regularly visited by numerous barnstorming Negro teams from the U. S., plus a much-celebrated visit by legendary African-American pitcher Satchel Paige on June 30, 1954, when Paige was barnstorming with a baseball version of the Harlem Globetrotters.

* Dorothy Sayers ' 1936 mystery novel Gaudy Night is set in Oxford, and one of the most important concluding conversations between Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane takes place on the balustraded circular rooftop of the Radcliffe Camera.

On 17 July 1936, he married Katherine Emily Roberts, a Beverly Hills debutante and a graduate of Radcliffe College.

In the fall of 1936, Mutual lost another of its founding members when WLW departed.

In 1936 Nash departed for England to conduct trade negotiations.

Other musicians who rose during this time include Jimmy Dorsey, his brother Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Goodman's future rival Artie Shaw, and Woody Herman who departed the Isham Jones band in 1936 to start his own band.

In sight of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, and because there was fear of social unrest in the naval station, the Foreign Office in London, organized a ship to repatriate all the remaining British citizens and on 22 July 1936 HMS Witch ( D89 ) departed from Ferrol back to Britain.

All-women a cappella groups followed shortly, frequently as a parody of the men's groups: the Smiffenpoofs of Smith College ( 1936 ), The Shwiffs of Connecticut College ( The She-Whiffenpoofs, 1944 ), and The Chattertocks of Brown University ( 1951 ).

Although not formalised and acknowledged as a mythos per se, Lovecraft did correspond with contemporary writers ( Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, and Fritz Lieber – a group referred to as the " Lovecraft Circle ") – and shared story elements: Robert E. Howard's character Friedrich Von Junzt reads Lovecraft's Necronomicon in the short story " The Children of the Night " ( 1931 ), and in turn Lovecraft mentions Howard's Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the stories " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) and " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).

From 1933 to 1936, Smith, Howard and Lovecraft were the leaders of the Weird Tales school of fiction and corresponded frequently, although they never met.

Other leading films included Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), You Can't Take It With You ( 1938 ), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Meet John Doe ( 1941 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ) and State of the Union ( 1948 ).

* The Northwest Smith stories ( 1933 – 1936 ) by C. L. Moore.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

* Smith, A. G. The Babington plot ( 1936 )

Kevin Smith was born August 2, 1970 in Highlands, New Jersey, the son of Grace ( née Schultz ), a homemaker, and Donald E. Smith ( 1936 – 2003 ), a postal worker.

He married Maxine Leonard in 1930 and had a son, Peter Smith, in 1936.

Among his best-known roles was Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ) and roles in Berkeley Square ( 1933 ), Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ), The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1934 ), The Petrified Forest ( 1936 ), Pygmalion ( 1938 ), Intermezzo ( 1939 ), " Pimpernel " Smith ( 1941 ) and The First of the Few ( 1942 ).

* Willie " Big Eyes " Smith ( 1936 – 2011 ), blues drummer and singer

* Bill Smith ( fell runner ) ( 1936 – 2011 ), fell runner and author on the sport

Smith flaunted the racial norms of her day by hosting interracial dinners of white and black women between 1936 until the 1960s.

* George Harold Smith ( 1866 – 1936 ), New Zealand politician

* George Smith ( footballer born 1936 ), football goalkeeper who played for Notts County and Hartlepool in the 1950s and 1960s

( 1933 ), an odd one-shot attempt to make a film star out of the popular but heavy-set radio singer Kate Smith ; and Go West, Young Man ( 1936 ).

* Maurice S. Sullivan, " Jedediah Smith, Trader and Trail Breaker ", in New York Press of the Pioneers, 1936.

Carl Pearson, later known as Karl Pearson ( 1857 – 1936 ), was born to William Pearson and Fanny Smith, who had three children, Aurthur, Carl ( Karl ) and Amy.

He also played other bit parts, and minor unbilled roles in ten additional films produced between 1936 and 1940 ; the last of which, Pimpernel Smith, had a belated release in July 1941, when Rennie was already in uniform, serving in the Royal Air Force.

Arthur is best known for her feature roles in three Frank Capra films: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), You Can't Take It With You ( 1938 ), and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), films that championed the everyday heroine.

Arthur co-starred in three celebrated 1930s Capra films: her role opposite Gary Cooper in 1936 in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town made her a star, while her fame was cemented with You Can't Take It With You ( 1938 ) and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington in 1939, both with James Stewart.

The sone is a unit of perceived loudness proposed by Stanley Smith Stevens in 1936.

In early November 1936, Howard and Smith shipped the horse to California by rail.

The TSFSR dissolved in 1936 and Armenia became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union known as the Armenian SSR.

Drexel became the Drexel Institute of Technology in 1936, and in 1970 Drexel Institute of Technology gained university status, becoming Drexel University.

He returned to Albania in 1936 and became a grammar school teacher in Korçë.

The race became a round of the new European Championship in 1936, when stormy weather and a broken oil line led to a series of crashes, eliminating the Mercedes-Benzes of Chiron, Fagioli, and von Brauchitsch, as well as Bernd Rosemeyer's Typ C for newcomer Auto Union ; Rudolf Caracciola, proving the truth of his nickname, Regenmeister ( Rainmaster ), went on to win.

Frederik Willem de Klerk ( born 18 March 1936 ), often known as F. W. de Klerk, was the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. de Klerk was also leader of the National Party ( which later became the New National Party ) from February 1989 to September 1997.

Hence the group included supporters of Trotskyism, like Judith Merril and others who would have been deemed far left for the era ( Frederik Pohl became a member of the Communist Party in 1936, but later quit in 1939 ).

In 1936, gray whales became protected in the United States.

Hedwig Potthast, Himmler's young secretary starting in 1936, became his mistress by 1939.

He became a Doctor of Medicine and Chemistry in Prague in 1929, went to Johns Hopkins University on a Rockefeller Foundation Scholarship in 1931 and then went to McGill University in Montreal where he started researching the issue of stress in 1936.

In two 1936 patent applications, Konrad Zuse also anticipated that machine instructions could be stored in the same storage used for data — the key insight of what became known as the von Neumann architecture, first implemented in the British SSEM of 1948.

The 1936 Show Boat, faithfully adapted from the original stage production, is considered the definitive film version of the musical, but became unavailable following the 1951 remake.

Göring had played a leading role in the build up of the Luftwaffe in 1933 – 1936, but played little further part in the development of the Luftwaffe until 1936, and Milch became the de facto minister until 1937.

In 1919 he became Lecturer in Medieval history at Strasbourg University, after the German professors were all expelled ; he was called to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1936 as professor of economic history.

He left RKO in 1936 and soon became the musical director of Selznick International Pictures.

In 1936 he moved to Tenero-Locarno, in Ticino Canton, Switzerland ; during the following few years the artist often visited Zürich and Basel, where he became a friend of Alberto Giacometti, Germaine Richier, and Fritz Wotruba.

The Economy Run originated with the Gilmore Oil Company of California in 1936 ( which was purchased by Socony-Vacuum in 1940 ) and later became the Mobilgas Economy Run and still later, the Mobil Economy Run.

Improvised incendiary devices were used for the first time in the Spanish Civil War between July 1936 and April 1939, before they became known as " Molotov cocktails ".

By the time the Bonneville Salt Flats became the premier location for pursuit of land speed records, in 1936, Daytona beach had become synonymous with fast cars .< ref >

NAA was discovered in 1936 by Hevesy and Levi, who found that samples containing certain rare earth elements became highly radioactive after exposure to a source of neutrons.

in 1936, Barney Balaban became president, and Zukor was bumped up to chairman of the board.

After ending his career, Nurmi became a coach for the Finnish Athletics Federation and trained runners for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

The General Staff Academy was reinstated on 2 April 1936, and became the principal military school for the senior and supreme commanders of the Red Army.

A Surrealist group developed in Britain and, according to Breton, their 1936 London International Surrealist Exhibition was a high water mark of the period and became the model for international exhibitions.

The explorer Charles Sturt, who visited the region from 1844 – 1846, was the first European to see the desert, but it was not until 1936 that Ted Colson became the first white person to cross it in its entirety.