Timeline November 1936

Events in November 1936 14

• 1896 – 1936 Buenaventura Durruti (1896-1936) Died 20 November 1936, aged 40 Buenaventura Durruti was a Spanish anarchist leader who commanded the Durruti Column in the Civil War. He was fatally wounded during the defence of Madrid. Hundreds of thousands of people attended his funeral in Barcelona.
• 1903 – 1936 José Antonio Primo de Rivera (1903-1936) Died 20 November 1936, aged 33 José Antonio Primo de Rivera founded the Spanish fascist party Falange Española. He was the son of the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera. He was tried and executed by the Republic in Alicante prison.
• 1936 On Computable Numbers The universal machine Answering Hilbert's decision problem, Turing invents an imaginary device — an infinite tape, a read-write head, a table of rules — and shows that some questions cannot be decided by any mechanical procedure whatsoever. To prove it he has to define what a mechanical procedure is, and in doing so describes a single machine that can imitate any other machine given the right instructions. That is a computer. Nobody builds one for another decade.
• 1936 Rome-Berlin Axis proclaimed Mussolini announces the alignment with Germany After the October Protocols between Italy and Germany, Mussolini described the relationship in a speech in Milan as an axis around which other European states could revolve. The term came to stand for the alliance of the two fascist powers. The alliance was formalised in the Pact of Steel in 1939.
• 1936 – 2015 Margaret Atwood Canadian novelist Atwood wrote The Handmaids Tale, exploring dystopian society, gender, and political control.
• 1936 Roosevelt re-elected in landslide FDR wins 46 of 48 states Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated the Republican Alf Landon, winning 46 of the 48 states and about 61 percent of the popular vote. The result endorsed the New Deal. At the time it was the most one-sided presidential election in the Electoral College since 1820.
• 1936 – present Roy Emerson Emmo Won 12 singles and 16 doubles majors; holds the record for most combined Slam titles.
• 1936 – 2009 Mary Travers (1936-2009) Died 16 September 2009, aged 72 Travers was an American singer and the female voice of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, known for hits including "Puff, the Magic Dragon" and their versions of Bob Dylan songs. The group was closely associated with the 1960s folk revival and civil rights movement. She continued to perform and record with the group for decades.
• 1936 – 1992 Mikhail Tal Magician of Riga Mikhail Tal became World Champion in 1960 and gained legendary status for sacrificial attacks and imaginative tactical play.
• 1936 Life magazine relaunched by Henry Luce First issue of the weekly photo magazine Henry Luce published the first issue of Life as a weekly photojournalism magazine, with a Margaret Bourke-White photograph of Fort Peck Dam on the cover. It quickly became one of the best-selling magazines in the United States. It shaped the development of American photojournalism.
• 1936 Robert Johnson's first recording session San Antonio Records Cross Road Blues and Sweet Home Chicago.
• 1936 Anti-Comintern Pact Germany and Japan unite against communism Germany and Japan signed a pact directed against the Communist International, with a secret protocol aimed at the Soviet Union. Italy joined in 1937. The pact laid the groundwork for the wartime Axis alliance.
• 1936 – 1989 Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989) Died 12 April 1989, aged 52 Abbie Hoffman was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party and was a defendant in the Chicago Seven trial. He became a symbol of 1960s counterculture protest against the Vietnam War. He died of an intentional overdose.
• 1936 Crystal Palace destroyed by fire London's great glass exhibition hall burns down The Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 and later moved to Sydenham, was destroyed by fire in a single night. The blaze could be seen across much of London. The building was never rebuilt.