Timeline August 1936

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• 1866 – 1936 Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936) Died 9 August 1936, aged 70 Lincoln Steffens was an American investigative journalist and one of the leading muckrakers. He exposed municipal corruption in The Shame of the Cities. After visiting Soviet Russia, he wrote that he had seen the future and it works.
• 1871 – 1936 Grazia Deledda (1871-1936) Died 15 August 1936, aged 64 Grazia Deledda was an Italian novelist from Sardinia who won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was the first Italian woman to receive it. Her novels, including Reeds in the Wind, portray Sardinian rural life.
• 1872 – 1936 Louis Blériot (1872-1936) Died 1 August 1936, aged 64 Louis Blériot was a French aviator and aircraft designer. In 1909 he made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft. His company later built SPAD fighters during the First World War.
• 1883 – 1936 Grigory Zinoviev (1883-1936) Died 25 August 1936, aged 52 Grigory Zinoviev was a leading Bolshevik, a close associate of Lenin and chairman of the Comintern. After he opposed Stalin, he was expelled from the party. He was convicted in the first Moscow show trial and shot.
• 1883 – 1936 Lev Kamenev (1883-1936) Died 25 August 1936, aged 53 Lev Kamenev was a leading Bolshevik who briefly served as the Soviet head of state in 1917. He later sided with Zinoviev against Stalin. He was convicted in the first Moscow show trial and shot.
• 1898 – 1936 Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) Died 19 August 1936, aged 38 Federico García Lorca was a Spanish poet and playwright whose works include Blood Wedding and Gypsy Ballads. Nationalist forces shot him near Granada in the first weeks of the Civil War. His remains have never been found.
• 1898 – 1936 Federico García Lorca Poet and Martyr Renowned poet and playwright executed by nationalist forces at the start of the Civil War.
• 1936 US Championships 1936 Men: Fred Perry · Women: Alice Marble
• 1936 1936 Summer Olympics XI Olympiad - Berlin First Games to be televised. Winner: Germany.
• 1936 – 2008 Yves Saint Laurent (1936-2008) Died 1 June 2008, aged 71 French fashion designer who founded his own haute couture house in 1961 and helped popularize garments like the tuxedo suit for women. He was one of the most influential designers of the twentieth century.
• 1936 Metaxas establishes dictatorship in Greece The 4th of August Regime begins With the backing of King George II, Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas suspended parliament and key articles of the constitution. His authoritarian 4th of August Regime banned political parties and censored the press. It lasted until his death in 1941.
• 1936 Trial of the Sixteen First of the Moscow show trials Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev and fourteen other Old Bolsheviks were tried in Moscow on invented charges of plotting with Trotsky. All sixteen were sentenced to death and shot straight after the verdict. The trial marked the start of the Great Purge's public phase.
• 1936 – 1999 Wilt Chamberlain The Big Dipper The only player to score 100 points in a single NBA game; a dominant force in rebounding.
• 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty Britain agrees to withdraw troops except from the Suez Canal zone Britain and Egypt signed a treaty under which Britain would withdraw its troops from Egypt, except those guarding the Suez Canal. The two countries also formed a twenty-year alliance. Egypt joined the League of Nations the following year.
• 1936 – 2018 John McCain (1936-2018) Died 25 August 2018, aged 81 American senator from Arizona and former Navy pilot who survived over five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. He ran for president in 2000 and 2008 and was known for a reputation of bipartisan independence in the Senate. He died of brain cancer at his Arizona ranch.