The temperature on March 20, 1936 was between 2.9 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 16 » The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.
March 16 » Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh.
June 26 » Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter.
August 3 » A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
August 3 » Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
December 30 » The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.
Day of death April 5, 1936
The temperature on April 5, 1936 was between 1.0 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
April 6 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
May 26 » In the House of Commons of Northern Ireland, Tommy Henderson begins speaking on the Appropriation Bill. By the time he sits down in the early hours of the following morning, he had spoken for ten hours.
August 14 » Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
November 3 » Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States.
November 23 » Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
December 21 » First flight of the Junkers Ju 88 multi-role combat aircraft.
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