The temperature on August 19, 1936 was between 11.1 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 29.1 mm of rain during 6.4 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 15 » The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
April 5 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
April 27 » The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
July 18 » On the Spanish mainland, a faction of the army supported by fascists, rises up against the Second Spanish Republic in a coup d'état starting the 3-year-long Civil War, resulting in the longest dictatorship in modern European history.
August 1 » The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler.
August 14 » Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
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