Timeline May 1936

Events in May 1936 6

• 1880 – 1936 Oswald Spengler (1880-1936) Died 8 May 1936, aged 55 Oswald Spengler was a German historian and philosopher. His two-volume The Decline of the West argued that civilisations follow a cycle of growth and decay. The book was widely read after the First World War.
• 1936 Italy captures Addis Ababa Ethiopian capital falls to Italian forces Italian troops under Marshal Pietro Badoglio entered Addis Ababa after Emperor Haile Selassie went into exile. Four days later Mussolini proclaimed the annexation of Ethiopia and declared Victor Emmanuel III its emperor. The conquest exposed how little the League of Nations could do to stop aggression.
• 1936 – 2010 Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) Died 29 May 2010, aged 74 Hopper was an American actor and filmmaker who directed and starred in the counterculture classic Easy Rider and later earned acclaim for roles in films including Blue Velvet and Apocalypse Now. His career spanned more than five decades of Hollywood film. He died of complications from prostate cancer.
• 1936 – present The Fram Museum Polar Ship History Houses the strongest wooden ship ever built, used by Nansen and Amundsen.
• 1936 RMS Queen Mary maiden voyage Cunard liner sails from Southampton to New York The Cunard liner Queen Mary left Southampton on her maiden voyage and arrived in New York on 1 June. She won the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing later that year. She remained in transatlantic service until 1967.
• 1936 Turing submits On Computable Numbers The paper that introduced the Turing machine Alan Turing submitted his paper On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem to the London Mathematical Society. It described an abstract computing machine and showed that some mathematical problems cannot be decided by any mechanical procedure. The paper became a founding text of computer science.