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History on the year of 1936

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01 Jan 1936 WW2 Wilhelm Keitel was promoted to the rank of Generalleutnant. 
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04 Jan 1936 WW2 Emperor Bao Dai's oldest son, Crown Prince Bao Long, was born in the Palace of Kien-Trung within the Imperial City in Hue, Annam, French Indochina. 
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04 Jan 1936 WW2 The town of Vorkuta was established in northern Komi Republic, Russia to support the Vorkuta Gulag forced labor camps. 
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06 Jan 1936 WW2 Admiral Graf Spee was commissioned into German service. 
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11 Jan 1936 WW2 Dong Zhao was named the commanding officer of the 28th Division. 
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12 Jan 1936 WW2 Major Marine units of the US Marine Corps began their participation in Fleet Landing Exercise No . 2 at Culebra, Puerto Rico. 
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13 Jan 1936 WW2 HMS Apollo was commissioned into service. 
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13 Jan 1936 RELIGIOUS Baptist clergyman B.B. McKinney, 50, wrote the words and tune to the gospel song, "Wherever He Leads, I'll Go," a few days before the opening of a Sunday School convention in Alabama.
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18 Jan 1936 RELIGIOUS In Washington, DC, Catholic biblical scholars met to discuss two proposals: the preparation of a new Bible translation and the formation of a society of Catholic biblical scholars. In result, the Catholic Biblical Association (CBA) was formed in 1937, and the New American Bible (NAB) was published in 1970.
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20 Jan 1936 WW2 British King George V passed away at Sandringham House, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. 
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24 Jan 1936 WW2 Pierre Laval stepped down as the Prime Minister of France. 
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25 Jan 1936 WW2 Shark (Porpoise-class) was commissioned into service. 
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25 Jan 1936 WW2 Zhao Chengshou was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. 
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29 Jan 1936 WW2 The first German airborne battalion was established by the Luftwaffe. 
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30 Jan 1936 WW2 Josias was promoted to the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer. 
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10 Feb 1936 WW2 The Gestapo was moved outside normal civil law, answering only to Adolf Hitler via Heinrich Himmler. 
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10 Feb 1936 WW2 Ernst Udet was appointed the Inspector of Fighters and Dive Bombers of the German Luftwaffe. 
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12 Feb 1936 WW2 The final production example of GL-832 HY floatplane was completed. 
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13 Feb 1936 RELIGIOUS The Lutheran Army and Navy Commission was organized by the Missouri Synod for the purpose of commissioning chaplains for military service and to minister to Lutheran personnel among the military overseas. In 1947 its name was changed to the Armed Services Commission.
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15 Feb 1936 WW2 Captain Kyuhachi Kudo was named the commanding officer of Tenryu. 
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17 Feb 1936 WW2 Major Marine units of the US Marine Corps completed their participation in Fleet Landing Exercise No . 2 at Culebra, Puerto Rico. 
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19 Feb 1936 WW2 In Spain the Popular Front won the general election. The Popular Front, a coalition of the left Republicans with the Socialists and Communists obtained 270 seats in the assembly against 200 seats won by the centre and right political parties. 
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22 Feb 1936 WW2 The Spanish government announced an amnesty for 35,000 left wing political prisoners. 
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24 Feb 1936 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu's fifth child, Princess Atsuko, passed away. 
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25 Feb 1936 WW2 Sun Chu arrived at the front lines in the conflict against the Chinese communists in Shaanxi, China. 
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25 Feb 1936 WW2 Edmund Herring became a King's Counsel. 
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25 Feb 1936 WW2 The British Cabinet approved a report calling for the expansion of the Royal Navy and re-equipment (but not expansion) of the Army, together with the establishment of "shadow factories" paid for with public money but to be managed by industrial companies. 
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26 Feb 1936 WW2 February 26 Incident began in Japan, which was a failed coup attempt. 
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26 Feb 1936 WW2 Adolf Hitler opened the 1st Volkswagen plant in Germany. 
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01 Mar 1936 WW2 Rudolf Höss was promoted to the rank of SS-Hauptscharführer. 
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01 Mar 1936 WW2 In Colorado, United States, the "Six Company's" consortium formally handed the newly completed Hoover Dam over to the federal government, two years ahead of schedule. 
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01 Mar 1936 WW2 Henry Arnold was promoted to the permanent rank of colonel. 
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02 Mar 1936 WW2 U-36 was launched. 
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02 Mar 1936 WW2 Werner von Blomberg issued orders for the reoccupation of Rhineland in western Germany. 
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03 Mar 1936 WW2 Adolf Hitler played host to the former British Liberal Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, at his Berghof residence in München–Oberbayern (Bavaria), Germany. 
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04 Mar 1936 WW2 The German Zeppelin derigible, LZ 129 Hindenburg, made its maiden flight. Together with its sister airship, LZ130 Deutschland, these were (at 803.8 feet length) the largest rigid airships ever constructed. 
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05 Mar 1936 WW2 The Confessing Church in Germany issued a declaration rejecting National Socialist ambitions to be "the supreme and ultimate authority in all spheres of life". Banned by the Gestapo, 700 pastors were arrested after reading out the declaration. 
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05 Mar 1936 WW2 Supermarine prototype Type 300 aircraft took flight from Eastleigh airfield in England, United Kingdom; this aircraft would later be named Spitfire. 
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05 Mar 1936 WW2 Hawker's prototype fighter K5083 was delivered to Martelesham Heath airfield in Suffolk, England, United Kingdom for testing. 
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06 Mar 1936 WW2 General Jiro Minami stepped down as the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory and the commanding officer of the Japanese Kwantung Army in northeastern China. 
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06 Mar 1936 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda was made the Governor-General of Kwantung Leased Territory and the commanding officer of the Japanese Kwantung Army. 
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07 Mar 1936 WW2 Werner Mölders flew missions over the Rhineland region of Germany. 
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07 Mar 1936 WW2 Upon the success of the Rhineland reoccupation in western Germany, Adolf Hitler dissolved the Reichstag and called for re-elections, which saw overwhelming approval for the action. 
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07 Mar 1936 WW2 Hiroshi Nemoto was named the commanding officer of 27th Infantry Regiment. 
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09 Mar 1936 WW2 Koki Hirota became the 32nd Prime Minister of Japan. 
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09 Mar 1936 WW2 Josias' son, Wittekind, was born at the castle of Schloß Arolsen, Arolsen, Germany. 
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10 Mar 1936 WW2 Destroyer Afridi was ordered by the British Royal Navy. 
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10 Mar 1936 WW2 The Fairey Battle Day bomber took its first flight. 
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13 Mar 1936 WW2 Adolf Hitler spoke publicly at Karlsruhe, Germany. 
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13 Mar 1936 WW2 Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin appointed Sir Thomas Inskip to coordinate the three defence services. Although he would have no department Inskip was only able to preside over meetings of the service Chiefs of Staffs and endorse their decisions. But by so doing he was able to obtain more money for the Navy and Air Force to purchase new equipment. 
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16 Mar 1936 WW2 Vice Admiral Tsugumatsu Inoue was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea. 
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17 Mar 1936 WW2 The Armstrong Whitworth Whitley all-metal twin-engine monoplane bomber made its maiden flight. 
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23 Mar 1936 WW2 Seishiro Itagaki was named the chief of staff of Kenkichi Ueda (Japanese Kwantung Army in northeastern China). 
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24 Mar 1936 WW2 Cruiser Georges Leygues was launched at Saint-Nazaire, France. 
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28 Mar 1936 WW2 Kenkichi Ueda was made the Japanese ambassador to the puppet nation of Manchukuo in northeastern China. 
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28 Mar 1936 RELIGIOUS Birth of Bill Gaither, contemporary Gospel songwriter and vocal artist. Together with his wife Gloria, he wrote some of the most popular Christian songs of the 1960s-1970s, including "Because He Lives," "The King is Coming," "The Longer I Serve Him" and "Something Beautiful."
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29 Mar 1936 WW2 The Reichstag elections recorded a record turnout of 98.8%, although the rules had been changed in respect of spoilt papers-in that all ballot papers left blank were counted as a vote for the National Socialists candidate, and only where the voter had specifically written "No" against a candidate's name were they counted as a vote against. 
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30 Mar 1936 WW2 Quintin Brand received the Order of Ismail from the Egyptian government. 
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31 Mar 1936 WW2 Light carrier Hosho completed her repairs. 
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01 Apr 1936 WW2 The Division of Aviation was established at Headquarters, US Marine Corps under the command of Colonel Road E . Rowell, the former head of the Marine Aviation Section. 
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01 Apr 1936 WW2 Wolfgang Falck was assigned to the 5th group of Jagdgeschwader 2 "Richthofen", based at Jüterbog-Damm, Germany. He was placed in charge of furthering the training of new pilots assigned to the unit. 
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02 Apr 1936 WW2 J2F Duck aircraft took its first flight; deliveries were made to the United States Navy later on the same day. 
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10 Apr 1936 WW2 Quintin Brand was made a supernumerary member of the headquarters of the No. 6 (Auxiliary) Group RAF. 
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13 Apr 1936 WW2 Ioannis Metaxas was appointed the Prime Minister of Greece. 
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14 Apr 1936 WW2 A S-43 aircraft, piloted by Boris Sergievsky and carrying a 500-kilogram payload, set an altitude record for amphibious aircraft at 27,950 feet above Stamford, Connecticut, United States. 
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18 Apr 1936 WW2 Sun Du was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. 
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20 Apr 1936 WW2 Werner Mölders was promoted to the rank of Oberleutnant, effective as of 1 Apr 1936. 
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20 Apr 1936 WW2 Werner von Blomberg was promoted to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall. 
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20 Apr 1936 WW2 Walther von Brauchitsch was promoted to the rank of General der Artillerie. 
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20 Apr 1936 WW2 Wolfgang Falck was promoted to the rank of Oberleutnant. 
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20 Apr 1936 WW2 The French Army issued the second order for AMR 35 light tanks. 
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20 Apr 1936 WW2 Robert von Greim was promoted to the rank of Oberst. 
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21 Apr 1936 WW2 HMS Hermes began a tour of Japan. 
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22 Apr 1936 WW2 The first AMR 35 light tanks entered service with the French Army. 
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24 Apr 1936 WW2 In Germany the Ordensburgen Training Centres were formally established for the indoctrination of Nazi Party members. These establishments came under the responsibility of Reich Organization Leader Robert Ley, a loud-mouth fanatic with a reputation for drink and women and an obsession with creating physically perfect Germans. 
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25 Apr 1936 WW2 The French Potez 630 aircraft took its first flight. It would be ultimately be developed into a successful range of fighters, bomber and reconnaissance aircraft seeing much service in German, Vichy and Free French air arms. 
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28 Apr 1936 WW2 Tetsuzo Iwamoto began receiving flight training by the Japanese Navy. 
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01 May 1936 WW2 Cruiser Köln began two months of operations off Portugal. 
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01 May 1936 WW2 In Germany the NSDAP introduced ambitious new plans for controlling the population. Key among these were the dividing of the population into blocks of 40 to 60 households under local controllers (not necessarily a party member) responsible for the political outlook, education and morale of every inhabitant, member or not. 
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05 May 1936 WW2 Italian forces captured Addis Ababa, Abyssinia, bringing an end to Abyssinian resistance. During this campaign the Italian air force had used modern weapons, including poison gas, against natives armed with little more than primitive weapons. 
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07 May 1936 WW2 Italy officially announced the establishment of Italian East Africa, merging Italian-held territories of Italian Somaliland, Abyssinia, and Eritrea. 
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09 May 1936 WW2 Chiang Kaishek proclaimed that Japan was waging war in China without a declaration of war. 
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09 May 1936 WW2 Mussolini disbanded the Blackshirt legions in Italy. 
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09 May 1936 WW2 Italy annexed Abyssinia and formed the colony of Italian East Africa by combining Abyssinia, Eritrea, and Italian Somaliland. 
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12 May 1936 WW2 The first prototype of the Messerschmitt Bf 110 made its maiden flight from Augsburg-Haunstetten, Germany, with test pilot Rudolf Opitz at the controls. 
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14 May 1936 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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27 May 1936 WW2 The transatlantic ocean liner RMS Queen Mary made her maiden voyage, departing from Southampton, England, United Kingdom. Converted into a troopship in World War II she would carry thousands of American troops across to Europe. 
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01 Jun 1936 WW2 The British Air Ministry released Production Scheme F, which called for the production of 1,000 new fighters. 
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03 Jun 1936 WW2 The British Air Ministry placed an order for 310 Spitfire fighters at £4,500 each. 
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03 Jun 1936 WW2 Ira Eaker took off from New York, United States on an attempt of the blind flight across North America. 
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03 Jun 1936 WW2 In Germany, General Walther Wever, Chief of Staff of the Luftwaffe, was killed when the Heinkel He 70 in which he was flying to Berlin crashed shortly after taking off from Dresden. 
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04 Jun 1936 WW2 The British Air Ministry issued Contract No. 527112/36 to Hawker Aviation for 600 units of the soon-to-be-named Hurricane fighter design. 
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05 Jun 1936 WW2 The United States Social Security Board decided to issue nine-digit identification numbers to Americans which would later be known as Social Security Numbers, and to establish 89 district offices and 469 branch offices. 
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05 Jun 1936 WW2 Esterwegen Concentration Camp in Germany was closed to be converted to be a punishment camp; prisoners of Esterwegen were ordered to build the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. 
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07 Jun 1936 WW2 Cruiser Köln began operations off Spain. 
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07 Jun 1936 WW2 Ira Eaker completed the first blind flight from New York to Los Angeles, making this the first North American transcontinental flight using only instruments. 
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08 Jun 1936 WW2 Hawker Aviation issued fuselage manufacturing drawings of the soon-to-be-named Hurricane design to its production shops. 
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09 Jun 1936 WW2 Destroyer Afridi was laid down at Vickers-Armstrong’s High Walker Yard on the Tyne in England, United Kingdom. 
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09 Jun 1936 WW2 Quincy was commissioned into service. 
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09 Jun 1936 WW2 Ernst Udet was appointed Director of the Technical Department of the German Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM) with responsibility for all new Luftwaffe aircraft. His department grew to a complex 26 departments and was riven with petty jealousies and inter-department rivalries. Udet failed to provide a firm leadership and his organisation soon collapsed into chaos, whilst Udet, with no effective deputy and a poor staff seemed more happier when he was out of reach visiting aircraft factories and airfields (usually at the controls of his own bright red Siebel tourer complete with its well stocked bar). 
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11 Jun 1936 RELIGIOUS The Presbyterian Church of America (PCA) was organized in Philadelphia. In 1938 the denomination changed its name to the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
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14 Jun 1936 WW2 A contract for 'New Construction G' was issued by the German Navy to the Kriegsmarine Werft in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. 
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15 Jun 1936 WW2 HMAS Perth was commissioned into service. 
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15 Jun 1936 WW2 The Westland Lycander Army co-operation aircraft, originally ordered under British Air Ministry Specification A.39/34, took its first flight. 
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16 Jun 1936 WW2 Adolf Hitler departed Venice, Italy, returning to Germany. 
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16 Jun 1936 WW2 Heinrich Himmler was named the head of the first German national police force. Prior to this, police forces had always been under the jurisdiction of local states and not the national government. 
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18 Jun 1936 WW2 Pinghai completed the fitting of weapons at Aioi, Japan. 
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21 Jun 1936 WW2 Handley Page Hampden medium bomber took flight for the first time. 
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23 Jun 1936 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt was nominated for second term as US President at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 
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24 Jun 1936 WW2 German Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg drew up Case Green as a hypothetical campaign against Czechoslovakia. 
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24 Jun 1936 WW2 U-27 was launched at Bremen, Germany. 
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26 Jun 1936 WW2 The German military began to exclude Jews from service. 
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26 Jun 1936 WW2 The Soviet Council on Labor and Defense presented a ten-year plan to the Politburo for a 1,360,000-ton navy. 
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27 Jun 1936 WW2 The Hurricane fighter design officially received its "Hurricane" designation. 
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29 Jun 1936 WW2 Cruiser Köln completed operations off Spain. 
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29 Jun 1936 WW2 The US Congress passed the Merchant Marine Act (1936) which set in place the necessary legislation to create series-production facilities for mercantile hulls. This legislation would ultimately have important consequences for the wartime Battle of the Atlantic. 
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29 Jun 1936 WW2 Nachi completed her first reconstruction at Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Japan. 
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30 Jun 1936 WW2 The active duty strength of the US Marine Corps was reported to be 1,208 officers and 16,040 enlisted men for a total of 17,248. 
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01 Jul 1936 WW2 The keel of the battleship Bismarck was laid down at Blohm & Voss' shipyard in Hamburg, Germany. 
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01 Jul 1936 WW2 The US 2nd Marine Brigade was formed at San Diego, California, United States for deployment to China. 
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02 Jul 1936 WW2 Heinrich Himmler celebrated the 1,000th anniversary of the passing of King Heinrich I at the Quedlinburg Dom (also known as the Collegiate Church of St. Servatius) at Quedlinburg, Germany. 
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06 Jul 1936 WW2 The British RAF Fighter Command was established. 
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10 Jul 1936 WW2 The US Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics changed the specification of Grumman's new F4F prototype from a biplane to a monoplane configuration. The aircraft would emerge as the successful Wildcat fighter. 
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11 Jul 1936 WW2 Quintin Brand was appointed the Director of Repair and Maintenance of the RAF. 
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11 Jul 1936 WW2 Germany and Austria signed an agreement in which Germany promised to respect Austria's sovereignty and Austria agrees to be considered a state of the German people. In a secret clause of this agreement, Austria was to permit the Nazi Party. 
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12 Jul 1936 WW2 In Spain, Calvé Sotelo, a well-known monarchist, was murdered by Republican storm troopers, and passions were roused to even greater fury when, at the funeral, police opened fire, killing four of the mourners. 
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14 Jul 1936 WW2 Hugh Dowding was appointed the first commander-in-chief of the British RAF Fighter Command. In this role, he was also in charge of the Anti-Aircraft Command, the Balloon Command, and the Observer Corps. 
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14 Jul 1936 WW2 The H6K flying boat took its first flight. 
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14 Jul 1936 WW2 RAF Fighter Command's Headquarters moved from RAF Uxbridge to Bentley Priory in England, United Kingdom. 
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15 Jul 1936 WW2 Fal Condé, leader of the ardent Catholic Carlist movement in Spain, agreed to call out his 8,400 strong Requetés Militia to support the Nationalist cause. 
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16 Jul 1936 WW2 An attempt was made to assassinate British King Edward VIII in London, England, United Kingdom. An Irish malcontent, Jerome Brannigan (otherwise known as George Andrew McMahon), produced a loaded revolver as the King rode on horseback at Constitution Hill, near Buckingham Palace. Police spotted the gun and pounced on him; he was quickly arrested. At Brannigan's trial, he alleged that "a foreign power" had approached him to kill Edward, that he had informed MI5 of the plan, and that he was merely seeing the plan through to help MI5 catch the real culprits. The court rejected the claims and sent him to jail for a year. 
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18 Jul 1936 WW2 Throughout Spain and Spanish Morocco military garrisons (aided in place by the Guardia Civil and the Falange) rose in revolt against the Republican Government. 
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19 Jul 1936 WW2 General Francisco Franco flew from Tenerife, Canary Islands to Tetuan, Spanish Morocco to take over command of the Spanish Army of Africa. Meanwhile, he also appealed to Germany and Italy for volunteer fighters. 
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19 Jul 1936 WW2 The insurgent Spanish Nationalists succeeded in seizing power in Morocco, Navarre, Galicia, Old Castile, and Seville, but were thwarted in the key cities off Barcelona and Madrid. Santiago Casares Quiroga of the Left Republican Party resigned from the post of Prime Minister of the Republic; President Manuel Azana asked Diego Martinez Barrio, a member of the Republican Union Party, to form a moderate government which could negotiate with the rebels; when Barrio was unable to form a government which enjoyed and real support he resigned. Professor Jose Giral of the Republican Party would replace him and ordered that arms be distributed to the workers. 
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19 Jul 1936 WW2 Bob Feller made his Major League Baseball debut. 
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20 Jul 1936 WW2 When it became apparent that the rising in Madrid, Spain had failed, the Nationalist supporters in Toledo (40 miles to the south-west of the capital) occupied the Military Academy in the Alcazar fortress. The garrison was mainly drawn from the local Guardia Civil and Falange, and was commanded by the Commandant of the Academy, Colonel Jose Moscardo. For two months the defenders held out against the Republican Militia units besieging them, and were finally relieved when troops from the Army of Africa, led by Colonel Jose Varela, stormed into Toledo. The relieve of the Alcazar Academy did much to enhance General Franco’s reputation, but the diversion of Varela’s troops from the advance on Madrid gave the capital’s defenders further time to prepare their defences. On this same date, in Madrid, Spanish Prime Minister Giral appealed to the French Socialist Government (whose Prime Minister was Leon Blum) for arms supplies as the Nationalists appealed to Germany and Italy. Finally, the nominal leader of the rising, General Jose Sanjurjo, was killed when the aircraft bringing him from Portugal to Burgos, Spain crashed on take-off. 
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21 Jul 1936 WW2 El Ferrol, the main naval base in the north-west of Spain, surrendered to the Nationalists. As a result the Nationalists acquired battleship Espana, cruiser Republica, cruiser Admirante Cervera, destroyer Valesco, and two under-construction cruisers Baleares and Canarias. 
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22 Jul 1936 WW2 A German businessman from Spanish Morocco met Adolf Hitler in Bayreuth, Germany and handed the German leader a letter from Francisco Franco requesting German resistance in the Spanish Civil War. Meanwhile, Franco's Nationalist forces captured Alto de Leon to the north-west of Madrid, Spain. 
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22 Jul 1936 WW2 Omar Bradley was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. 
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22 Jul 1936 WW2 The keel of submarine Skipjack was laid down by the Electric Boat Company at Groton, Connecticut, United States. 
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23 Jul 1936 WW2 The Committee of National Defence, the Spanish Nationalist Government, met for the first time in Burgos. 
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23 Jul 1936 WW2 Tucker was commissioned into service. 
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23 Jul 1936 WW2 ShCh-313 was commissioned into service. 
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25 Jul 1936 WW2 The COMINTERN agreed to send volunteers and funds to aid the Spanish Republic. 
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27 Jul 1936 WW2 The airlift, which was to carry the Army of Africa from Spanish Morocco to Spain, began when German and Italian transport aircraft arrived in Spain’s North African territories. 
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30 Jul 1936 WW2 Cruiser Köln began operations off Spain. 
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30 Jul 1936 WW2 Submarine Iride was launched at La Spezia, Italy. 
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01 Aug 1936 WW2 Georg von Bismarck was promoted to the rank of Oberstleutnant. 
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01 Aug 1936 WW2 The 1936 Olympic Games started in Berlin, Germany; anti-Semitic posters were temporarily removed for the duration of the events. 
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01 Aug 1936 WW2 Shunroku Hata was named the commanding officer of the Taiwan Army. 
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04 Aug 1936 WW2 Ioannis Metaxas declared the 4th of August Regime; he took on the title of Arkhigos. 
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09 Aug 1936 WW2 A Spanish Republican expeditionary force of Catalan and Valencian troops, commanded by Air Force Captain Alberto Bayo and Guardia Civil Captain Manuel Uribarri, landed on the iland of Ibiza, Spain in the Mediterranean Sea. With the help of local people the expeditionary force quickly overcame the Nationalist garrison, and the island returned to Republican rule. 
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09 Aug 1936 WW2 During the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal, becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad. Owens commented that Adolf Hitler, although biased against people of African descent, rose and waved at him as he paraded with other medal winners before the German leader; Franklin Roosevelt, however, "didn't even send me a telegram." 
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10 Aug 1936 WW2 Cruiser Köln completed operations off Spain. 
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11 Aug 1936 WW2 The Spanish Nationalist gunboat Eduardo Dato was sunk at Algeciras, Spain by the Republican battleship Jaime I. 
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12 Aug 1936 WW2 U-27 was commissioned into service with Korvettenkapitän Hans Ibbeken in command; the submarine was assigned to 2nd Flotilla. 
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13 Aug 1936 WW2 The Spanish Republican battleship Jaime I was damaged by a Nationalist air attack off the coast of Malaga, Spain. 
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14 Aug 1936 WW2 Spanish Nationalist forces, drawn from the Army of Africa and led by Colonel Juan Yague, captured Badajoz, Spain. The two parts of Nationalist Spain were now linked. 
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14 Aug 1936 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt made a speech at Chautauqua, New York, United States, in which he stated "I hate war". 
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16 Aug 1936 WW2 Spanish Republican Catalan troops led by Captain Bayo landed on Majorca, Spain and by the evening had advanced eight miles inland from their landing place at Porto Cristo. 
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16 Aug 1936 WW2 Filipp Golikov was awarded the Order of the Red Star for the first time. 
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16 Aug 1936 WW2 Georgy Zhukov was awarded the Order of Lenin for the first time. 
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17 Aug 1936 WW2 The Hurricane prototype fighter took another test flight at Brooklands near Weybridge, Surrey, England, United Kingdom. 
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24 Aug 1936 WW2 Philippine President Manuel Quezon granted Douglas MacArthur the title of field marshal in the Philippine Army. 
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24 Aug 1936 WW2 The new Soviet Ambassador, Marcel Rosenberg, arrived in Republican Spain. He was accompanied by a large number of Soviet "advisers". 
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24 Aug 1936 WW2 The Cunard White Star liner RMS Queen Mary, arrived in New York, United States having made the Atlantic crossing in 4 days 27 minutes and taking the Blue Riband from the French liner Normandie. 
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27 Aug 1936 WW2 Porter was commissioned into service. 
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28 Aug 1936 WW2 German authorities arrested large numbers of Jehovah's Witnesses, sending some of them to concentration camps. 
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28 Aug 1936 WW2 Spanish Nationalist aircraft bombed Madrid, Spain for the first time. 
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31 Aug 1936 WW2 The United States passed a neutrality bill according to popular isolationist sentiment. The slogan "schools, not battleships" was used by supporters of this bill. 
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01 Sep 1936 WW2 Drayton was commissioned into service. 
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03 Sep 1936 WW2 Spanish Republican Catalan troops on Majorca, Spain, faced by a much stronger Spanish Nationalist Garrison (than that on Ibiza) under the command of Colonel Garcia Ruiz, were thrown back by a counter-attack supported by Italian fighters aircraft and bombers. The Republican force rapidly withdrew to the beaches and, covered by the guns of the battleship Jaime I, re-embark aboard the ships which had brought them. Meanwhile, on the mainland, Nationalist forces captured Talavera de la Reina. 
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03 Sep 1936 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. 
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04 Sep 1936 WW2 Francisco Largo Caballero (the leader of the Socialists) became Spain's Prime Minister. His Government was a coalition of Socialists, Communists and Left Republicans. 
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05 Sep 1936 WW2 The Spanish Nationalists closed the border between the Basque Provinces in Spain and France when Irun was captured by troops led by Colonel Alfonso Beorlegui. 
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06 Sep 1936 WW2 Italian aircraft arrived in Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain and set up bases from which to bomb Spanish Republican positions. 
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07 Sep 1936 WW2 The first autonomous Basque Government, led by Jose Antonio Aguirre, was formed in Spain. 
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07 Sep 1936 WW2 Pierre Barjot was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander. 
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07 Sep 1936 WW2 Shigure was launched at Uraga, Japan. 
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08 Sep 1936 WW2 French Army tested AMR 33 light tanks with upgraded suspension systems. 
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09 Sep 1936 WW2 At the annual party rally Hitler announced a four year plan for economic and military revival under the supervision of Hermann Göring. Hjalmar Schlat, the Reich Minister of Economics, insultingly was not notified of the plan until it was publicly announced. 
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09 Sep 1936 WW2 The Non-Intervention Committee met for the first time in London, England, United Kingdom. It was created to prevent personnel and matériel reaching the warring parties of the Spanish Civil War. 
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10 Sep 1936 WW2 Do 18 flying boat "Zephir" piloted by Lufthansa Flugkapitän Blankenburg was launched from the German seaplane tender Schwabenland by catapult in the Azores. Do 18 flying boat "Aeolus" was similarly launched. 
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11 Sep 1936 WW2 Do 18 flying boat "Aeolus" arrived at Hamilton, Bermuda from the Azores after a 18-hour 15-minute flight. Several hours later, Do 18 flying boat "Zephir" arrived at New York, New York, United States from the Azores after a 22-hour 12-minute flight. 
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12 Sep 1936 WW2 The AT-2/Ki-34 aircraft took its first flight. 
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13 Sep 1936 WW2 Rudolf Höss was promoted to the rank of SS-Untersturmführer. 
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13 Sep 1936 WW2 The Spanish Nationalists captured San Sebastian, Spain. 
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15 Sep 1936 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt ordered the United States Post Office, employers, and labor unions to assist the United States Social Security Administration to distribution SS-4 employer and SS-5 employee application forms for establishing Social Security Numbers. 
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15 Sep 1936 WW2 Submarine Pollack was launched, sponsored by Miss Anne Carter Lauman. 
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16 Sep 1936 WW2 The Spanish Nationalists captured Ronda, Spain. 
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16 Sep 1936 WW2 Charles Hippolyte Noguès was made the Resident-General of French Morocco, replacing Marcel Peyrouton. 
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18 Sep 1936 WW2 Mahan was commissioned into service. 
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19 Sep 1936 WW2 The Spanish Republican submarine B6 was sunk by Nationalist naval forces, led by the destroyer Velasco, off Cape Penas near Santander, Spain. 
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22 Sep 1936 WW2 Do 18 flying boat "Aeolus" arrived at Horta, Azores from Hamilton, Bermuda after a 17-hour 50-minute flight. 
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27 Sep 1936 WW2 Jules Marcel de Coppet was named the Governor-General of French West Africa. 
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29 Sep 1936 WW2 The Spanish Republican destroyer Almirante Juan Fernandez was sunk by the Nationalist cruiser Canarias during a naval battle off the coast near Gibraltar. 
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29 Sep 1936 WW2 ShCh-317 was commissioned into service with Captain V. A. Yegorov in command. 
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30 Sep 1936 WW2 Mutsu completed her reconstruction at Yokosuka Naval Arsenal, Japan. 
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01 Oct 1936 WW2 At Burgos, Spain, Francisco Franco was publicly proclaimed as the Head of State and the Generalísimo of the military. 
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01 Oct 1936 WW2 The Spanish Republican Government approved the statute giving autonomy to the Basque Provinces. 
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01 Oct 1936 WW2 The US 1st Marine Brigade began a three-month amphibious and field landing exercise in and near Potomac, Maryland, United States. 
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01 Oct 1936 WW2 Maximilian von Weichs was promoted to the rank of General der Kavallerie. 
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02 Oct 1936 WW2 Werner Mölders received the Dienstauszeichnung 4th Class award. 
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02 Oct 1936 WW2 Georg von Küchler was made the deputy president of the military court system. 
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04 Oct 1936 WW2 Battle of Cable Street: In Britain, Sir Oswald Ernald, 6th Baronet, Mosley, led around 2,000 BUF members in uniform in a march through the East End (an area of London known to have a high proportion of Jewish residents and much poverty) in an attempt designed to intimidate local Jews and rally fascist sympathisers. This was a fatal mistake, for waiting for him in Cable Street were around 100,000 counter-demonstrators who had overturned a lorry and piled up bricks as a barricade. The police seeing what was about to happen ordered Moseley and his men to turn away. They did. The police then turned on the anti-fascist demonstrators and in the ensuing fracas more than a hundred people were injured and eighty arrested. This confrontation was just as disastrous to the BUF as the Olympia rally had been. Moderates deserted in droves. 
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05 Oct 1936 WW2 Submarine Permit was launched at Groton, Connecticut, United States, sponsored by the wife of Harold G. Bowen. 
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06 Oct 1936 WW2 Francisco Franco decided that the time was ripe for an attack on Madrid, Spain and entrusted the task to José Enrique Varela, the most dynamic Nationalist commander, who was fresh from his Toledo triumph. His force of 10,000 men was to be divided into four columns; two of which under Juan Yagué (now recovered from his "collapse with exhaustion") would advance along the Toledo-Madrid road, while Varela would take the other two columns along the Mérida-Madrid road. A subsidiary force of 5,000 men under General Valdes Cabanillas was ordered to make a diversionary attack from the west across the Sierra Guadarrama. 
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06 Oct 1936 WW2 Oswald Mosley married Diana Mitford in secret at the home of Joseph Goebbels in Berlin, Germany. Their guests included Adolf Hitler. 
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09 Oct 1936 WW2 The French Army issued the third and final order of AMR 35 light tanks. 
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10 Oct 1936 WW2 The Spanish Republican Government announced the creation of the Popular Army. This was to incorporate both the Army units which had remained loyal to the Government and the Party Militias. 
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12 Oct 1936 WW2 The first Soviet aid to the Spanish Republicans arrived. Meanwhile, the Republican submarine B5 was sunk by Nationalist aircraft off the coast near Malaga, Spain. 
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14 Oct 1936 WW2 The United States Social Security Administration's first field office opened in Austin, Texas, United States. 
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15 Oct 1936 WW2 The Spanish Republican Popular Army established a system of Commissars (Political Officers) in each unit. 
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15 Oct 1936 WW2 50 Soviet T-26 Model 1933 light tanks arrived in Spain to aid the Republic forces in the Spanish Civil War. 
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18 Oct 1936 WW2 The second Four-Year plan was passed into law, which gave Göring the authority to remove any political or institutional obstacle to achieving the plan (e.g. to ride roughshod over any objections to rearmament). 
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20 Oct 1936 WW2 Japanese-backed Mongolian troops marched into Suiyuan Province, China. 
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22 Oct 1936 WW2 Ding Delong was promoted to the rank of major general. 
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25 Oct 1936 WW2 The Rome-Berlin Axis treaty was signed. 
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25 Oct 1936 WW2 A large part of Spain’s gold reserves (which remained in Republican controlled Spain after the rising) was transferred to Russia to pay for Soviet aid. 
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26 Oct 1936 WW2 Germany set up a the Reich Central Office for Combating Abortion and Homosexuality to specifically deal with homosexuality and abortion, both of which, in their thinking, decreases the German birth rate. 
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27 Oct 1936 WW2 Preston (Mahan-class) was commissioned into service. 
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27 Oct 1936 WW2 Mrs. Wallis Simpson, mistress of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, was awarded a decree nisi in her divorce proceedings against her second husband. 
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28 Oct 1936 WW2 The first 25 I-15 fighters, accompanied by 15 Soviet pilots, arrived in Cartagena, Spain. 
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29 Oct 1936 WW2 Soviet tanks and aircraft appeared in the front-line for the first time in the Spanish Civil War. Meanwhile, German and Italian bombers began a series of raids on Madrid, Spain in the hope of destroying civilian resistance. 
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29 Oct 1936 WW2 In Germany, Josef Wagner, the Gauleiter of Silesia, was appointed Price Commissar to ensure that inflation did not undermine the Four Year Plan announced by Hitler in Sep 1936. 
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29 Oct 1936 WW2 T-26 tanks saw their first combat action in Spain. 
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30 Oct 1936 WW2 The Crystal Palace, which was built in Hyde Park, London, England, United Kingdom for the Great Exhibition in 1851, was destroyed by fire. 
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31 Oct 1936 WW2 Submarine ShCh-324 was commissioned into service. 
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31 Oct 1936 WW2 The Jarrow Marchers arrived in London, England, United Kingdom. This protest was the best remembered of the hunger marches of the depression years. Led by their Labour Party Member of Parliament Ellen Wilkinson (1891-1947), 200 shipyard workers marched to London from Jarrow as a demonstration against the massive unemployment in northeastern England. 
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01 Nov 1936 WW2 Tetsuzo Iwamoto promoted to the rating of mechanic 1st class. 
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02 Nov 1936 WW2 The Spanish Nationalists captured Brunete near Madrid, Spain. 
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03 Nov 1936 WW2 Franklin Roosevelt was re-elected US President. 
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04 Nov 1936 WW2 The Spanish Nationalists captured Getafe near Madrid, Spain. 
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04 Nov 1936 WW2 U-36 was commissioned into service. 
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04 Nov 1936 WW2 I-15 fighters first saw action in Spain, with pilots flying these aircraft shooting down two Ju 52 and two CR.32 aircraft over Madrid, Spain without any losses. 
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05 Nov 1936 WW2 Adolf Hitler told his top lieutenants that the German aim in the Spanish Civil War was not entirely to aid the Spanish Nationalists, but rather, to prolong the conflict to occupy the attention of the United Kingdom and France, and to continue to widen the chasm between the United Kingdom and Italy. 
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05 Nov 1936 WW2 Columbia-Haus Concentration Camp in Berlin, Germany was closed. 
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06 Nov 1936 WW2 Expecting Madrid to fall at any moment, the Spanish Republican Government moved to Valencia, Spain. A defence Junta under the leadership of General Jose Miaja was organised for the last-ditch defence of the capital. 
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06 Nov 1936 WW2 Submarine Iride was commissioned into service. 
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08 Nov 1936 WW2 The Spanish Nationalists were now poised to make an all-out attack on Madrid in the hope of capturing the Spanish capital and thus ending the war. General Emilio Mola ordered Colonel José Varela to attack the north-west flank of the Spanish Republican defences. Most of the Nationalist troops involved being drawn from the Army of Africa. 
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10 Nov 1936 WW2 Captain Kanji Ugaki was named the commanding officer of Tenryu. 
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11 Nov 1936 WW2 Viktor Abakumov was assigned to the Department of Guards of Camps and Places of Imprisonment of the GULAG of the Soviet NKVD. 
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12 Nov 1936 WW2 Lieutenant Commander Haruo Ota was named the commanding officer of destroyer Yuzuki. 
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12 Nov 1936 WW2 Chen Changjie was awarded the 4th grade of the Order of the Cloud and Banner. 
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12 Nov 1936 WW2 Dong Zhao was awarded the Order of Resplendent Banner 4th Class. 
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12 Nov 1936 WW2 During a debate in the House of Commons, Winston Churchill attacked the British government for its slow progress on rearmament. 
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12 Nov 1936 WW2 Tatsuta Maru became the first merchant ship to pass under the Bay Bridge between San Francisco and Oakland In California, United States. 
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14 Nov 1936 WW2 The US 2nd Marine Brigade began a three-day training exercise with US Navy warships at San Clemente Island, California, United States. 
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15 Nov 1936 WW2 The German Condor Legion went into action for the first time, supporting further Nationalist operations to capture Madrid. 
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16 Nov 1936 WW2 Spanish Nationalist Colonel José Varela's troops had forced a bridgehead over the River Manzanares en route to Madrid, Spain. They would capture almost three quarters of the University City in the coming week before being stopped by Spanish Republican militias. 
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16 Nov 1936 WW2 John Winant began his second term as the Chairman of the United States Social Security Board. 
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16 Nov 1936 WW2 Soviet pilot Pavel Rychagov was shot down in Spain in an I-15 fighter; he survived the crash. 
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16 Nov 1936 WW2 Captain Ryozo Fukuda was named the commanding officer of Nachi. 
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16 Nov 1936 WW2 The US 2nd Marine Brigade completed a three-day training exercise with US Navy warships at San Clemente Island, California, United States. 
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17 Nov 1936 WW2 Submarine ShCh-205 was commissioned into service. 
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18 Nov 1936 WW2 Italy and Germany officially recognized General Franco's government in Spain. On the same day, Benito Mussolini authorized an Italian expeditionary corps to be sent to Spain. 
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19 Nov 1936 WW2 Perch (Porpoise-class) was commissioned into service. 
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20 Nov 1936 WW2 Buenaventura Durruti, a leading figure in the Spanish Anarchist movement, died after sustaining battle wounds during the Spanish Civil War on the previous day. 
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20 Nov 1936 WW2 Jose Antonio Prima de Rivera (the leader of the Falange), who had been stranded in Republican Spain at the time of the rising, was executed in Alicante. 
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20 Nov 1936 WW2 A German decree ordered all households to save all kitchen scraps and peelings. A commissar for recycled material was appointed to encourage the public to "make-do and mend". 
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23 Nov 1936 WW2 The Spanish Nationalist attack toward Madrid had stalled, but the Spanish Republican forces were exhausted as well. Althought Nationalist Colonel José Varela had failed in his primary mission of capturing Madrid, the Nationalists now held areas in the northwest of the city, and it was becoming increasingly obvious that further frontal attacks upon Madrid would be both costly and likely to fail. 
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23 Nov 1936 WW2 Near Bailingmiao, Suiyuan Province, China, Chinese forces began marching toward Mongolian positions at midnight. At 1300 hours, Chinese forces of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army began firing at Mongolian forward posts and took high ground. 
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24 Nov 1936 WW2 The United States Social Security Administration began distributing SS-5 application forms for the future issuing of Social Security Numbers. 
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24 Nov 1936 WW2 Chinese and Mongolian troops engaged in heavy combat near Bailingmiao, Suiyuan Province, China starting at 0100 hours through dawn, pushing back Mongolian forces back repeatedly. Chinese generals Sun Changsheng and Sun Lanfeng chose to make a major push despite sunrise, which meant Japanese air support might arrive at any time. Spearheaded by armored cars, Chinese troops pushed into the town of Bailingmiao, taking it by 0930 hours. 600 to 700 Monglians were killed, 200 were captured; the Chinese suffered 300 killed and wounded. Chinese troops captured 10 field guns, 10 machine guns, 600 rifles, several radios, 500 barrels of gasoline, a food storage dump, an ammunition dump, and many horses. 
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25 Nov 1936 WW2 Japan and Germany signed the Anti-Comintern Pact. 
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25 Nov 1936 WW2 Cummings was commissioned into service. 
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25 Nov 1936 WW2 In a major speech announcing the new Soviet Constitution, Joseph Stalin critically accused democracy in the capitalist countries as being "democracy for only the propertied classes", and further stated that the Soviet Union only needed to be a one-party state as "there was no longer any division between capitalists and workers, landlords and peasants". 
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26 Nov 1936 WW2 The consturction of the Taihoku City Hall in Taihoku (now Taipei), Taiwan was completed. It had cost 980,000 yen to build. 
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28 Nov 1936 WW2 3,000 Mongolian and Chinese irregulars loyal to the Japanese-sponsored puppet state Mengjiang launched an offensive toward Bailingmiao, Suiyuan Province, China. 
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29 Nov 1936 WW2 ShCh-320 was commissioned into service. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Mitsumasa Yonai was named the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Hiroaki Abe became the commanding officer of cruiser Jintsu. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 In Germany a law against economic sabotage made it a capital offence for any German citizen to "inflict serious harm on the German economy." In addition, black-marketeering, smuggling, currency fraud and even unauthorised price increases were covered by the new law and could result in long prison sentences on conviction. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Mutsu was assigned to Japanese Navy Battleship Division 1. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Thomas Holcomb was promoted to the rank of major general and was appointed the 17th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, relieving Major General John H. Russell, Jr. who had reached the statutory retirement age. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 The keel of battleship Jean Bart was laid down. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Chuichi Nagumo was named the commanding officer of the 8th Cruiser Division. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Vice Admiral Masaichi Maeda succeeded Admiral Hideho Wada as the commanding officer of the Ryojun Military Port (previously known as Port Arthur; now Lushunkou, Liaoning Province, China), Kwantung Leased Territory in northeastern China. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 In Germany a new law made it compulsory for all eligible ethnic German juveniles to become a member of the Hitler Youth or League of German Girls organisations. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Captain Koso Abe was named the commanding officer of Naka. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Captain Naomasa Sakonjo was named the commanding officer of Settsu. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Lieutenant General Seiichi Kuno was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Vice Admiral Keitaro Hara was named the commanding officer of Chinkai Guard District in southern Korea; Rear Admiral Junichi Mizuno was named the chief of staff. 
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01 Dec 1936 WW2 Vice Admiral Shigeyoshi Miwa was named the Chief of Staff of the Mako naval port at Pescadores islands, Taiwan. 
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03 Dec 1936 WW2 Mongolian and Chinese irregulars loyal to the Japanese-sponsored puppet state Mengjiang launched a failed attack against Chinese positions at Bailingmiao, Suiyuan Province, China. 
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04 Dec 1936 WW2 Mongolian and Chinese irregulars loyal to the Japanese-sponsored puppet state Mengjiang called off their offensive toward Bailingmiao, Suiyuan Province, China. 
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04 Dec 1936 WW2 The keel of RMS Queen Elizabeth was laid down by the John Brown and Company at Clydebank, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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05 Dec 1936 WW2 The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic became an independent state in the Soviet Union. 
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05 Dec 1936 WW2 The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic was created as a republic of the Soviet Union. 
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05 Dec 1936 WW2 Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic was established. 
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06 Dec 1936 WW2 Spanish Nationalist aircraft bombed Barcelona, Spain. 
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09 Dec 1936 WW2 The keel of Helena was laid down at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States. 
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11 Dec 1936 WW2 King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom abdicated in favour of his brother, Prince Albert, who would soon become King George VI. 
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12 Dec 1936 WW2 Xi'an Incident: Chinese generals kidnapped Chiang Kaishek in an attempt to force the Nationalist and Communist forces to form an unified front against the Japanese. 
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12 Dec 1936 WW2 Jiang Dingwen was interned during the Xi'an Incident. 
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12 Dec 1936 WW2 The French battleship Strasbourg was launched at the Saint-Nazaire-Penhoet shipyard at Saint-Nazaire, France. 
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13 Dec 1936 WW2 With the frontal attack on Madrid, Spain having failed, the Spanish Nationalist forces attempted to tighten their siege by cutting off the capital from the rest of Republican Spain. José Varela launched an offensive to cut the Corunna Road which ran for 25 miles north of Madrid. 
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14 Dec 1936 WW2 The keel of submarine S-7 was laid down at Krasnoye Sormovo Factory No. 112 in Gorky, Russia. 
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14 Dec 1936 WW2 The US Army set up an experimental radar set which accurately detected at up to 7-mile range aircraft flying in and out of New York City, New York, United States. 
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16 Dec 1936 WW2 U-36 was commissioned into service. 
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16 Dec 1936 WW2 The 4TP light tank design was completed by Edward Habich of the Polish firm Panstwowe Zaklady Inzynieryjne (PZInz). 
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17 Dec 1936 WW2 Communist Party of China sent a delegation to Xi'an under the urging of Joseph Stalin. 
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17 Dec 1936 WW2 In Spain, the POUM (Partido Obrero de Unification Marxist ) was ousted from the Generalitat (Catalan Government) by the Communists. 
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17 Dec 1936 WW2 In a secret meeting, Hermann Göring told leading German industrialists that the war to which Germany was preparing for was on the horizon. 
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20 Dec 1936 WW2 Viktor Abakumov was promoted to the rank of State Security Junior Lieutenant. 
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21 Dec 1936 WW2 The Spanish Republican submarine C3 was sunk by an Italian submarine off the coast of Malaga, Spain. 
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22 Dec 1936 WW2 Song Meiling and Song Ziwen arrived at Xi'an for negotiations to free kidnapped Chiang Kaishek. 
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22 Dec 1936 WW2 The first 3,000 Italian Blackshirts arrived in Spain as volunteer fighters. They were originally organized in battalion-sized units, but would later be re-organized as three divisions after the arrival of more men and equipment. 
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23 Dec 1936 WW2 In Spain, the Council of Aragon, which was dominated by the CNT (Confederacion Nacional de Trabajo ), was recognised by the Republican Government. 
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23 Dec 1936 WW2 McDougal was commissioned into service. 
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24 Dec 1936 WW2 General Zhang Xueliang succeeded in achieving an uneasy alliance between the Nationalist and Communist forces against the common foe, Japan. 
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26 Dec 1936 WW2 Tetsuzo Iwamoto graduated from flight training and was promoted to the rating of airman 1st class. 
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26 Dec 1936 WW2 Chiang Kiashek traveled from Xi'an to Nanjing in China. 
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26 Dec 1936 WW2 He Yingqin welcomed Chiang Kaishek's arrival after the conclusion of the Xi'an Incident at the airport of Nanjing, China. 
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27 Dec 1936 WW2 Jiang Dingwen was released from captivity in Xi'an, China by Zhang Xueliang. 
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27 Dec 1936 WW2 He Yingqin addressed a crowd of 200,000 people in a rally in Nanjing, China on behalf of Chiang Kaishek; the rally was held to celebrate Chiang's safe return after the Xi'an Incident. 
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28 Dec 1936 WW2 The keel of Graf Zeppelin was laid down. 
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30 Dec 1936 WW2 The keel of HMS Edinburgh was laid down. 
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31 Dec 1936 WW2 Mineichi Koga was promoted to the rank of vice admiral. 
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31 Dec 1936 WW2 The US 1st Marine Brigade completed its three-month amphibious and field landing exercise in and near Potomac, Maryland, United States. 
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