1936

1935 1936 1937

Events

George Orwell publishes his essay "Shooting an Elephant."
Kenji Mizoguchi releases Sisters of the Gion and Osaka Elegy.
Tasmanian Tiger (Thylacinus cynocephalus) becomes extinct.
Abbie Hoffman is born in Worcester, MA.
Rise of Nazism in Germany spurs large scale Jewish immigration into Palestine; 36,000 ariive, the largest number in any year to date.

January 10: Fifty day general strike in Syria against the French Mandate government organized by the National Bloc, boycott of French companies.
January 10: Tripartite Coalition wins Cuban Congressional election, winning all 24 Senate seats and 90 of 160 seats in the House of Representatives.
March 1: Paris agrees to negotiate an end to French Mandate in Syria and the admission of Syria to the League of Nations.
April: Arab General Strike begins in Palestine.
April 15: 70 year old Yisrael Hazan killed in an ambush near Tulkarem.
April 19: In Jaffa, 9 killed and 4 wounded in political violence.
May 16: Three killed in terrorist shooting at Edison Cinema in Jerusalem.
July 4: League of Nations votes to end sanctions against Italy. The crisis over Abyssinia (Ethiopia) is over.
August: Britain and Egypt sign the Treaty of Preferential Alliance. In effect the Egyptian government remains a British client state.
August 1: The Olympic Games open in Berlin. The Games are a festival of overbearing German nationalistic propaganda.
August 29: John McCain is born in the Panama Canal Zone.
October 25: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sign the Rome-Berlin Axis Agreement, putting the fascist dictatorships of Germany and Italy in formal alliance.
December 12: Generalissimo Chiang kai-shek is arrested in Xi'an by Col. Sun Mingjiu on the orders of Zhang Xueliang, a.k.a.the Young Marshall.