Death of John Gilbert
Death of John Gilbert
Permanent historical records · Updated 2026-11-03
1936 in United States of America
Explore 54 historical events and records for United States of America in 1936.
Historical records for United States of America in 1936
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January
US Declaration of Intention
Files a declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States.
February
Eccles Becomes Federal Reserve Board Chairman
Marriner Eccles begins service as chairman of the reorganized Federal Reserve Board, taking the leading policy role in the central bank after the institutional changes made by the Banking Act of 1935.
May
Birth of Dennis Lee Hopper
Birth of Dennis Lee Hopper
Rural Electrification
Federal loans support cooperatives extending electricity to underserved rural communities.
Barmitzvah
Celebrates his Jewish coming of age under the Nazi regime
August
Olympic Gold Medal
Winner of the 100m Olympic Gold Medal
Olympic Gold Medal
Winner of the long jump Olympic Gold Medal
Olympic Gold Medal
Winner of the 200m Olympic Gold Medal
Olympic Gold Medal
Winner of the 4 x 100m relay team Olympic Gold Medal
Olympic Gold Medal
Wins 4 Olympic gold medals, challenges the myth of Hitler's Aryan superiority
September
Issues a public warning that a general war would shatter our civilization
Issues a public warning that a general war would "shatter our civilization"
Neutrality
Issues a public warning that a general war would "shatter our civilization"
Tripartite Agreement
The United States joins Britain and France in coordinating exchange stability without restoring classical gold convertibility.
Tripartite Monetary Agreement
The United States joins Britain and France in pledging currency cooperation while retaining the 35-dollar official gold price for international monetary purposes.
November
Election
Wins every state except for 2. Wins 60% of the vote during the Presidential elections, 27 million of the poll
December
Nobel Prize in Literature
Is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for powerful and emotionally honest tragic drama.
Legislation
The Neutrality Laws are strengthened
Neutrality
The Neutrality Laws are strengthened
Gravitational Lens Paper
Publishes a calculation of the lens-like action of a star's gravitational field, describing how general relativity can produce multiple or magnified images of a background source.
Other events (month unknown)
Academy Award
Winner of Best Supporting Actor for Come and Get It
Academy Award
Winner of the Oscar for Best Actor, "The Story of Louis Pasteur" as Louis Pasteur
Brotherhood of Fear
Publication of "Brotherhood of Fear"
Day at the Races
Directs A Day at the Races
Days to Come Opens
Lillian Hellman's Days to Come appeared on Broadway, linking an industrial strike with strains inside a prosperous family.
Discovery of Cosmic Rays
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics for the discovery of cosmic rays
Dodsworth
Directs, Dodsworth
Double Indemnity
Publication of "Double Indemnity"
Economy of USA
Passes the Soil Conservation Act which controls farm surpluses. Opens the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River
Education
Graduates from West Point
Effects of Red Shifts on the Distribution of Nebulae
Hubble publishes a major analysis of how redshift assumptions affect the inferred distribution of nebulae, comparing observational counts with different cosmological interpretations.
Einstein Ring Condition Described
Einstein showed that exact alignment of source, lens and observer produces a circular image geometry, the configuration later widely known as an Einstein ring.
El Salon Mexico
Aaron Copland composes El Salon Mexico, major orchestral work; uses jazz, American folk music to create American-sounding music for ballet, film, symphony orchestra
Election
Elected as a Republican to the United States Senate
Gravitational Lensing
Publishes a calculation showing how a foreground star can gravitationally lens light from a background star.
Gravitational Wave Debate
Einstein and Nathan Rosen initially question whether exact gravitational waves exist, then recognise that a troublesome singularity is a coordinate effect rather than a physical obstruction.
Gravitational-Wave Manuscript with Rosen
With Nathan Rosen, submits a manuscript questioning gravitational waves, then revises the analysis after recognising that a problematic singularity arose from the coordinates used.
Legislation
Passes the Soil Conservation Act which controls farm surpluses
Lens-Like Action of a Star Published
Einstein published a short analysis of the lens-like action of a foreground star, giving a compact treatment of image formation and magnification caused by gravitational light bending.
Luminosity Function from Brightest Stars
Hubble publishes the first part of his study of the luminosity function of nebulae, using the brightest resolved stars in nearby galaxies as indicators of total galaxy luminosity.
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