* 1936 – Prime Minister of Greece Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and the Constitution and establishes the 4th of August Regime.

Smaller containers may be made of glass, aluminum or plastic. Lone Star State Edition Budweiser On August 3, 2011, Budweiser announced its twelfth can design since 1936, one which emphasizes the bowtie.

Enrollment had peaked at 505, 782 in about 2, 900 camps by 31 August 1935, followed by a reduction to 350, 000 enrollees in 2, 019 camps by 30 June 1936.

On July 24, 1936, the Republican cruiser Méndez Núñez arrived at Santa Isabel ; on its way back to Spain the officers planned to join the rebellion, but the Spanish government, knowing this, ordered the ship to go back to the colony ; on August 14 the Méndez Núñez was back in Fernando Poo, where the sailors took control of her ; on September 21 the ship arrived in Málaga ( Republican Spain ).

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.

Armstrong managed to demonstrate the advantages of FM radio despite Carson's skepticism in a now-famous paper on FM in the Proceedings of the IRE in 1936, which was reprinted in the August 1984 issue of Proceedings of the IEEE.

That aggressive strategy worked as Germany pulled out of the League of Nations ( 1933 ), rejected the Versailles Treaty and began to re-arm ( 1935 ), won back the Saar ( 1935 ), remilitarized the Rhineland ( 1936 ), formed an alliance (" axis ") with Mussolini's Italy ( 1936 ), sent massive military aid to Franco in the Spanish Civil War ( 1936 – 39 ), seized Austria ( 1938 ), took over Czechoslovakia after the British and French appeasement of the Munich Agreement of 1938, formed a peace pact with Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union in August 1939, and finally invaded Poland in September 1939.

On 4 August 1936, with the King's support, he suspended parliament and established the 4th of August Regime.

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.

Louisiana's highest recorded temperature is in Plain Dealing on August 10, 1936 while the coldest recorded temperature is at Minden on February 13, 1899.

The highest temperature on record was 115, set in August 1936, and the record low was − 5, set in 1930.

But on 5 August 1936 the so-called Convoy de la victoria was able to bring at least 2, 500 men across the strait breaking the republican blockade.

He married Berthe Sadie Delmont, known as Toots, on 12 August 1936, and her father Joseph Delmont, a wealthy Johannesburg businessman, bought a salon for James.

Unknown to Williams, he had caught the eye of the Boston Red Sox's general manager, Eddie Collins, while Collins was scouting Bobby Doerr and the shortstop George Myatt in August 1936.

* August 9 – Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian Entertainer ( b. 1936 )

* August 1 – The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, Germany, and mark the first live television coverage of a sports event in world history.

* August 26 – Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 is signed.

* August 16 – Juho Sunila, Prime Minister of Finland ( d. 1936 )

* August 10 – Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian musician ( d. 1936 )

* 21 August 1930 – 11 December 1936: Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret of York

Lev Borisovich Kamenev (, ; – 25 August 1936 ), born Rozenfeld (), was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician.

Though Adolf Hitler succeeded in garnering the support of many German industrialists, prominent traditionalists openly and secretly opposed his policies of euthanasia, genocide, and attacks on organized religion, including Claus von Stauffenberg, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Henning von Tresckow, Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen, and the monarchist Carl Friedrich Goerdeler.

# The Law Concerning the Highest State Office of the Reich ( August 1, 1934 ) prescribed that upon the death of the incumbent president, that office would be merged with the office of the chancellor, and that the competencies of the former should be transferred to the " Führer und Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler ", as the law stated.

Upon Hindenburg's death on 2 August 1934, Hitler's cabinet passed a law proclaiming the presidency vacant and transferred the role and powers of the head of state to Hitler as Führer und Reichskanzler ( leader and chancellor ).

After the death of von Hindenburg in August 1934, the Reichstag appointed Hitler Führer und Reichskanzler ( leader and chancellor ); he thus became head of state as well as head of government.

In August 1944 Hitler authorised him to restructure the organisation and administration of the Waffen-SS, the army, and the police services.

On 21 August 1939, Hitler received a message from Stalin reading " The Soviet Government has instructed me to say they agree to Herr von Ribbentrop's arrival on 23 August ".

For a brief moment in August 1939, Ribbentrop convinced Hitler that the Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union would cause the fall of the Chamberlain government, and lead to a new British government that would abandon the Poles to their fate.

On 23 August 1939 at a secret meeting of the Reichs top military leadership at the Berghof, Hitler argued neither Britain nor France would go to war for Poland without the Soviet Union, and fixed " X-Day ", the date for the invasion of Poland for 26 August.

On 25 August 1939, Ribbentrop's influence with Hitler wavered for a moment when the news reached Berlin of the ratification of the Anglo-Polish military alliance and a personal message from Mussolini telling Hitler that Italy would dishonour the Pact of Steel if Germany attacked Poland.

As a result of the message from Rome and the ratification of the Anglo-Polish treaty, Hitler cancelled the invasion of Poland which was planned for 26 August, and instead ordered it held back until 1 September in order to give Germany some time to break up the unfavourable international alignment.

On 27 August 1939, Chamberlain sent the following letter to Hitler, which was intended to counteract reports Chamberlain had heard from intelligence sources in Berlin that Ribbentrop had convinced Hitler that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact would ensure that Britain would abandon Poland.

On 25 August, surprising Hitler, Britain entered into a defense pact with Poland.

Consequently, Hitler postponed his planned 26 August invasion of Poland to 1 September.

King realized the likelihood of World War II before Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, and began mobilizing on August 25, 1939, with full mobilization on September 1.

* August 19 – Hitler, after evaluating the pace of the non-aggression negotiations with the Soviet Union, orders the Kriegsmarine to begin the opening operations for Fall Weiss, the invasion of Poland.

* August 18 – Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of the mentally ill and handicapped due to protests.

* August 8 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi German Hitler Youth leader ( b. 1907 )

* August 2 – Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany, becoming head of state as well as Chancellor.

* August 8 – The Wehrmacht swears a personal oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler.

Raeder claimed that he was not involved in a conspiracy to commit aggression because Hitler's statements in the Hossbach Memorandum of 1937 and again to senior officers including Raeder for plans for a war with Poland in May and August 1939 together with Raeder's own statements to Hitler about seizing Norway in October – November 1939 were all just mere talk that was not to be taken seriously.