* Thomas Patten from Dooega died fighting Francisco Franco's fascist forces during the Siege of Madrid in December 1936.

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.

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.

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

Following the war, Italy occupied Ethiopia for five years ( 1936 – 41 ), before eventually being driven out during World War II by British Empire and Ethiopian patriot forces.

Conquest's calculations excluded camp deaths before 1936 and after 1950, executions from 1939 – 1953, the vast deportation of the people of captive nations into the camps and their deaths 1939 – 1953, the massive deportation within the Soviet Union of minorities 1941 – 1944 and their deaths, and those the Soviet Red Army and secret police executed throughout Eastern Europe after their conquest during 1944 – 1945.

The biggest extension of Eritrea was reached during the Italian empire ( 1936 – 1941 ), when northern parts of conquered Ethiopia were assigned to Eritrea by the Italians as a reward for the Eritrean " Ascaris '" help in the conquest of Ethiopia

In 1936, the Italian king Victor Emmanuel III claimed the title of Emperor of Ethiopia after Ethiopia was occupied by Italy during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

By World War II, however, the practice was so widespread that during the Nuremberg trials, the charges against German Admiral Karl Dönitz for ordering unrestricted submarine warfare were dropped, notwithstanding that the activity constituted a clear violation of the Second London Naval Treaty of 1936.

There was some respite during 1936, while Berlin hosted the Olympic Games, but from 1937 the intensity of his anti-Semitic words and actions began to increase again.

Kabaddi received international exposure during the 1936 Berlin Olympics, demonstrated by Hanuman Vyayam Prasarak Mandal, Amaravati, Maharashtra.

The 16-page letter to his mother detailed life on the yacht during a 1936 Mediterranean cruise on which King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson were passengers.

He helped to write the 1936 Soviet Constitution, but during the Great Purge of the 1930s, he was accused of treason and confessed, after two and a half months of interrogation, at the Trial of the Seventeen ( 1937, also called the Second Moscow Trial ).

Through the efforts and influence of the Spanish Anarchists during the Spanish Revolution within the Spanish Civil War, starting in 1936 anarchist communism existed in most of Aragon, parts of the Levante and Andalusia, as well as in the stronghold of Anarchist Catalonia before being crushed by the combined forces of the regime that won the war, Hitler, Mussolini, Spanish Communist Party repression ( backed by the USSR ) as well as economic and armaments blockades from the capitalist countries and the Second Spanish Republic itself.

Through the efforts and influence of the Spanish Anarchists during the Spanish Revolution within the Spanish Civil War, starting in 1936 anarchist communism existed in most of Aragon, parts of the Levante and Andalusia, as well as in the stronghold of Anarchist Catalonia before being brutally crushed by the combined forces of Francoism, Hitler, Mussolini, Spanish Communist Party repression ( backed by the USSR ) as well as economic and armaments blockades from the capitalist countries and the Spanish Republic itself.

Through the efforts and influence of the Spanish Anarchists during the Spanish Revolution within the Spanish Civil War, starting in 1936 anarchist communism existed in most of Aragon, parts of the Levante and Andalusia, and in the stronghold of Anarchist Catalonia before being crushed by the combined forces of Francoism, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Spanish Communist Party repression ( backed by the USSR ) as well as economic and armaments blockades from the capitalist countries and the Spanish Republic itself.

Musical stars such as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were among the most popular and highly respected personalities in Hollywood during the classical era ; the Fred and Ginger pairing was particularly successful, resulting in a number of classic films, such as Top Hat ( 1935 ), Swing Time ( 1936 ) and Shall We Dance ( 1937 ).

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.

From 1936 to 1968, Mobil sponsored an economy run each year ( except during World War II ) in which domestic automobiles of various manufacturers in several price and size classes were driven by light-footed drivers on cross-country runs.

Stalin unleashed the Great Terror campaign against alleged " socially dangerous " and " counterrevolutionary " persons that resulted in the Great Purge of 1936 – 1938 during which 1. 5 million people were arrested from 1937 – 1938 and 681, 692 of those were executed.

Timing issues on the 500 were a problem within the sport until electronic clocks arrived in the 1960s ; during the 1936 Olympic 500 – metre race, it was suggested that Ivar Ballangrud's 500-metre time was almost a second too good.

Undaunted, he made the film over four months during the summer of 1936 on Foula and the film transposes these events to Shetland.

These torches and relay tradition were introduced in 1936 Summer Olympics by Carl Diem, the chairman of the event because during the duration of the Ancient Olympic Games in Olympia, a sacred flame burns inside of the temple of Hera, kept in custody by her priestess.

* Hearts of Iron III-( Paradox Interactive, 2009 )-a complex and realistic grand strategy wargame that allows the player to take control of almost any nation that existed or even plausibly could have existed during the period of 1936 – 1948, guiding it through World War II.

Syria and France negotiated a treaty of independence in September 1936, and Hashim al-Atassi, who was Prime Minister under King Faisal's brief reign, was the first president to be elected under a new constitution, effectively the first incarnation of the modern republic of Syria.

At first, the monarch was the only member of the Royal Family to carry out public ceremonial duties solely on the advice of Canadian ministers ; King Edward VIII became the first to do so when in July 1936 he dedicated the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France — one of his few obligations performed during his short reign.

Another jar from the same tomb — which was discovered in situ by a 1935 – 1936 Metropolitan Museum of Art expedition on a hillside near Thebes — was stamped with the seal of the ' God's Wife Hatshepsut ' while two jars bore the seal of ‘ The Good Goddess Maatkare ’</ ref > The dating of the amphorae, " sealed into the burial chamber by the debris from Senenmut's own tomb ," is undisputed which means that Hatshepsut was acknowledged as the king of Egypt by Year 7 of her reign.

On the day his reign officially ended, 11 December 1936, Edward made a BBC radio broadcast from Windsor Castle ; no longer King, he was introduced by Sir John Reith as " His Royal Highness Prince Edward ".

Florins bearing his left-facing effigy were minted in each year of the reign of King George V ( 1910 – 1936 ) except 1910 and 1934.

The reign of King George V produced farthings to a basically unchanged design every year between 1911 and 1936.

The reign of king George V ( 1910 – 1936 ) features several changes to the threepence denomination.

The mini-series takes place in 1936, during the short reign of his elder brother, Edward VIII.

Note: In the twentieth century, the period 1910 – 1936 was informally called the Georgian Era during the reign of George V ( following the Edwardian Era ), and is sometimes still referred to as such.

The original Harrisburg Senators ' reign ended in 1936, when flood waters from the surrounding Susquehanna River ruined their home ballpark, Island Field.

It was designed and constructed in 1936 by a French architect, during the reign of the last Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan.

The Edward VIII postage stamps were issued only in the United Kingdom during this King's short reign in 1936.

As soon as the beginning of the reign in January 1936, the British Post Office was preparing two other issues after this four definitive stamp series that was considered as an " Accession issue ".

By the reign of King Edward I ( r. 1272 – 1307 ), tenure by serjeanty was well on the retreat, as Kimball observes in her study of the English serjeanties published in 1936:

Nevertheless, he sent his son, Juan de Borbon, Count of Barcelona, to enter Spain in 1936 and participate in the uprising.

* 1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.

By the time his close friends Christof and Luise Spengemann and their son Walter were arrested by the Gestapo in August 1936 the situation had clearly become perilous.

On 2 January 1937 Schwitters, wanted for an ' interview ' with the Gestapo, fled Hanover for Norway to join his son Ernst, who had already left Germany on 26 December 1936.

In June 1936, Mascagni's son died in Somalia.

After George's death in 1936, her eldest son Edward became King-Emperor, but to her dismay he abdicated the same year in order to marry twice-divorced American socialite Wallis Simpson.

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.

* Isabel Lean ( 28 June 1930 – 1936 ) ( his first cousin ); one son, Peter

On May 25, 1936 Koch married Ilse Köhler with whom he had a son and two daughters.

The sudden death of Gorky's son Maxim Peshkov in May 1934 was followed by the death of Maxim Gorky himself in June 1936.

Their first-born son died as an infant in 1936, their second son, John ( born in 1939 ) contracted polio, and their daughter, Shirley, born in 1941, had cerebral palsy since her birth.

He was the son of Sarah and Moses " Moe " Annenberg, who published The Daily Racing Form and purchased The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1936.

In 1927 her husband Thomas died but she continued to farm with the help of her youngest son until advancing age forced her to retire to a daughter's home in 1936.

* Herbert Barbee ( October 8, 1848-March 22, 1936 ), son of William Randolph Barbee, also noted for his neoclassical sculpture.

Another son, Pierre, won the four-man bobsleigh gold medal at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

* David Nelson ( 1936 – 2011 ), actor, son of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson

Outstanding Greek public figures in the 20th century include Cretan-born Eleutherios Venizelos, prominent statesman of the interwar period ; Ioannis Metaxas, dictator from 1936 until his death ; Constantine Karamanlis, prime minister ( 1955 – 63, 1974 – 80 ) and president ( 1980 – 85 ) of Greece ; George Papandreou, head of the Center Union Party and prime minister ( 1963 – 65 ); and his son Andreas Papandreou, the PASOK leader who became prime minister in 1981.

He was born on 3 October 1936 in Cairo, Egypt, the son of former parliamentarian Muhammad Moussa.

A traditional coconut shy, established in 1936 by Mrs E. Harris, is still being run by her son today.

* actress Joan Blondell ( married September 19, 1936, divorced 1944 ), with whom he had two children, Ellen and adopted son Norman

Pollard's son Fritz Pollard, Jr. won the bronze medal for 110 m hurdles at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

It was published by his son in 1936.

It was also during that period, in the tumultuous year of 1936, that King George V died and his son, Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, acceded and then abdicated in favour of his younger brother, Prince Albert, Duke of York.