Ezra Grover Carter Timeline

WORLD, NATIONAL & LOCAL EVENTS OF 1936

This timeline helps you explore important events that occured during the life of Ezra Grover Carter. By better understanding the world in which Ezra Carter lived you can better understand the person he was and the decisions he made. We invite you to submit events for inclusion on this or any other Timeline by using our event submission form.

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• Boulder (Hoover) Dam on Colorado River completed.
• Johnstown, PA flooded.
• November 3 Franklin Roosevelt re-elected President. He defeated Alfred Landon 524 Electoral votes to 7 and carried all states except Maine and Vermont.

• U.S. Supreme Court ruled the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) unconstitutional.
• Severe drought in China. An eztimated 5 million die from famine.

• The Great Depression continues in the United States.
• Population figures in millions

  China 422

  India 360

  USSR 173

  United States 127

  Japan 89

  Germany 70

  Great Britain 47

  France 44

• The Ford Foundation is established.

• Flourescent lighting developed.
• Acrylic resin developed.
• Polyvinyl acetate discovered.
• Frequency Modulation (FM) developed by Edwin H. Armstrong.

• Dec 10 in Great Britain Edward VIII abdicated the throne . He becomes the Duke of Windsor. George VI becomes King of England.

• Dale Carnegie wrote "How to Win Friends and Influence People".
• Walter D. Edwards wrote "Drums Along the Mohawk".
• Jolem Gunther wrote "Inside Europe".
• Margaret Mitchell wrote "Gone With the Wind".
• Rudyard Kipling died.
• Robert Frost wrote "A Further Range"
• J.M. Myers wrote "General Theory of Employment, Industry and Money".
• Sigmond Freud wrote his autobiography.
• Life magazine started by Henry Luce.
• "Idiots Delight" by Robert E. Sherwood won Pulitzer Prize for drama.

• Ivan Pavlov Russian physcologist died.
• Dr. Alexis Carrel developed an artificial heart.

• Germany built the battleship "Bismark".
• Japan built the battleships "Yamato" & "Mushaski".
• The first test flight of the British Spitfire fighter plane.
• July 18 civil war broke out in Spain.
• May 5 The Italian army occupied Addis Ababa ending the Ethiopian War and signifying the complete collapse of The League of Nations.
• Germany began building the Siegfried Line.

• "Modern Times" (Charlie Chaplin)
• "Mr. Deeds Goes To Town" (Frank Capra)
• "Intermezzo" (Ingrid Bergman)
• "The Great Ziegfeld" named best picture.

• "It's Delovely"
• "Whiffenpoof Song"
• I'm an Old Cowhand"
• "Pennies From Heaven"

• Pius XI is Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints announced its Welfare Program.

• Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to David Anderson for his work on the positron.
• American scientists George R. Menot, William P. Murphy and G.H. Whipple won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

• Olympic Games held in Berlin, Jesse Owens wons four gold medals.
• The National Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown started with Tyrus R. Cobb, Walter P. Johnson, Christopher Mathewson, George H. "Babe" Ruth, John P. "Honus" Wagner.
• Stanford beat Southern Methodist 7-10 in the Rose Bowl.
• Minnesota named National College Football Champions.
• Green Bay Packers defeated Boston Redskins 21-6 to win the NFL championship.
• New York Yankees (American League) defeated New York Giants (National League) 4-2.

• The dirigible "Hindenburg" landed at Lakehurst New Jersey after a transatlantic flight.
• BBC London started television service.
• Douglas DC-3 went into regular airline service. The twin engine 21 passenger aircraft flying at 160 mph made civilian air travel practical.

• Stanley Baldwin was Prime Minister of Great Britain.
• Adolph Hitler was "Fuhrer" of Germany.
• Vyacheslau Molotov was Premier of USSR.
• Joseph Stalin rose to power in USSR.
• An attempted military revolt in Japan failed. 17 officers were executed.
• Anglo-Egyptian treaty between Great Britain and Egypt left the British in charge of the Suez Canal zone.
• The "Holocaust" began in Europe"
• July 11 German-Austrian Agreement signed.
• August 4 General Metaxas seized power in Greece.
• October 27 Formation of the Berlin-Rome Axis.
• November 17 Conclusion of the German-Japanese Pact.
• November 18 Adolph Hitler of Germany recognized the Insurgent Government of General Franco in Spain.
• December 5 Russia adopted a New "Democratic" Constitution.
• Chiang Kai Shek entered Canton and also declared war on Japan.
• Trotsky exiled from Russia and fled to Mexico.