December 1936

The following events occurred in December 1936:

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December 1, 1936 (Tuesday)

December 2, 1936 (Wednesday)

December 3, 1936 (Thursday)

December 4, 1936 (Friday)

December 5, 1936 (Saturday)

December 6, 1936 (Sunday)

December 7, 1936 (Monday)

December 8, 1936 (Tuesday)

December 9, 1936 (Wednesday)

December 10, 1936 (Thursday)

December 11, 1936 (Friday)

December 12, 1936 (Saturday)

December 13, 1936 (Sunday)

December 14, 1936 (Monday)

December 15, 1936 (Tuesday)

December 16, 1936 (Wednesday)

December 17, 1936 (Thursday)

December 18, 1936 (Friday)

  • Anthony Eden disclosed to the House of Commons that 5,000 gas masks had been sold to the Spanish Republic. The government hastened to add that the gas masks were equally available to Franco's forces at the same prices because they were classified as "medical supplies" and not munitions.[32]
  • The Public Order Act received Royal Assent.

December 19, 1936 (Saturday)

December 20, 1936 (Sunday)

  • In Cannes, Wallis Simpson spoke to the media for the first time since her divorce, although she took no questions. She mostly talked about the weather and the beauty of the French Riviera. Herman Rogers, who was hosting Mrs. Simpson at the villa where the reception took place, said she would be staying there for several months.[34]
  • Died: Elsa Einstein, 60, second wife of Albert Einstein

December 21, 1936 (Monday)

  • Cuban President Miguel Mariano Gómez vetoed a bill that would have introduced an army-sponsored 9-cent tax on each bag of sugar to fund the construction of rural schools run by the military. Gómez explained in his veto message that it was "the duty of the educational and not the military institutions" to teach Cuban children. Opponents of Gómez immediately began impeachment proceedings against him, accusing the president of trying to unconstitutionally force congress to defeat the tax bill as well as embezzling public funds.[35][36]
  • The Junkers Ju 88 had its first flight.
  • The U.S. Supreme Court decided United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp..

December 22, 1936 (Tuesday)

December 23, 1936 (Wednesday)

December 24, 1936 (Thursday)

December 25, 1936 (Friday)

December 26, 1936 (Saturday)

December 27, 1936 (Sunday)

  • The Battle of Lopera began.
  • United Airlines Trip 34: A United Air Lines Boeing 247 crashed into a hill south of Newhall, California during rainy weather, killing all 12 aboard.[42]
  • The Spanish government decided to hold the Palos despite a German threat of reprisals.[43]
  • Mahatma Gandhi emerged from two years of silence to make a political speech. He cryptically said, "Show me the way and I am prepared to return to gaol. I am prepared to be hanged. If you do all I want you to do, the Viceroy will say: 'I am wrong – I thought you people were terrorists, and if you like we Britishers will return by the next steamer.' We would then say to Lord Linlithgow and the British: 'India is big enough to hold you and more like you.' That is my Swaraj." Gandhi denied that his speech indicated that he was returning to public life.[44]
  • Died: Hans von Seeckt, 70, German general

December 28, 1936 (Monday)

December 29, 1936 (Tuesday)

  • The Battle of Lopera ended in Nationalist victory.
  • The first coast-to-coast broadcast by the Mutual Broadcasting System, America's third national radio network, occurs.
  • Spain released the Palos but held part of the cargo.[39]
  • Born: Mary Tyler Moore, actress, in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2017)
  • Died: Lucy, Lady Houston, 79, British philanthropist

December 30, 1936 (Wednesday)

December 31, 1936 (Thursday)

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  9. "Britain Split on King's Fate". Chicago Daily Tribune. December 5, 1936. p. 1.
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  33. "Quake Wrecks City of 35,000; Find 200 Dead". Chicago Daily Tribune. December 21, 1936. p. 1.
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