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1936 – Second London Naval Treaty; 1936 - Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals at the Olympics in Berlin, Germany; 1936 – U.S. presidential election, 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt reelected president, John N. Garner reelected vice president; 1936 - 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak; 1936 - Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb named to baseball's Hall of Fame
James Sinegal, American billionaire, businessman and co-founder of Costco; Richard V. Allen, American public servant and national security advisor (d. 2024) January 2 – Roger Miller, American singer, songwriter, musician and actor (d. 1992) January 5. Florence King, American novelist, essayist and columnist (d. 2013)
Headlining America 1937 ed Fank Luther Mott reprints the best American newspaper stories of 1935–1936. 1936 WWII Timeline; The 1930s Timeline: 1936 – from American Studies Programs at the University of Virginia
The 13 British North American provinces of Virginia, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Delaware, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia united as the United States of America declare their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on ...
The Constitution did not originally define who was eligible to vote, allowing each state to determine who was eligible. In the early history of the U.S., most states allowed only white male adult property owners to vote; the notable exception was New Jersey, where women were able to vote on the same basis as men.
April 9 – African-American singer Marian Anderson performs before 75,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., after having been denied the use both of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution, and of a public high school by the federally controlled District of Columbia.
A History of the World in the Twentieth Century (Harvard UP, 1994) pp 160–251. Grossman, Mark. Encyclopedia of the Interwar Years: From 1919 to 1939 (2000). 400pp. worldwide coverage; Lewis, Thomas Tandy, ed. The Thirties in America. 3 volumes. Pasadena: Salem Press, 2011. Watt D.C. et al., A History of the World in the Twentieth Century ...
American imports and exports plunged by more than two thirds, but since international trade was less than 5% of the American economy, the damage done was limited. The entire world economy, led by the United States, had fallen into a downward spiral that got worse and worse, and in 1931–32 began plunging downward even faster.