What Happened In March 1936 In History

Historical Events for March, 1936

• 1st » The Hoover Dam is completed.
• 5th » First flight of Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
• 7th » Prelude to World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany Remilitarization of the Rhineland known as reoccupies the Rhineland.
• 8th » Daytona Beach Road Course holds its first oval stock car racing called stock car race.
• 14th » Show Boat (1936 film) or The first all-sound film version of 'Show Boat' opens at Radio City Music Hall. (There had been a part-talkie, part-silent version of 'Show Boat' in 1929.)
• 16th » Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny River Allegheny and Monongahela River Monongahela rivers and lead to Pittsburgh Flood of 1936 a major flood in Pittsburgh.

Famous Birthdays on March in 1936

• 1st » Monique Bégin, Italian-Canadian politician
• 1st » Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (d. 1997)
• 2nd » Haroon Ahmed, Pakistani-English engineer and academic
• 2nd » John Tusa, Czech-English journalist and academic
• 3rd » Preston King (academic) called Preston King, African-American civil rights activist and academic
• 4th » Eric Allandale, Dominican trombonist and songwriter (The Foundations) (d. 2001)
• 4th » John Burland, English engineer and academic
• 4th » Jim Clark, Scottish race car driver (d. 1968)
• 4th » Robert Garrow, American murderer (d. 1978)
• 4th » Aribert Reimann, German pianist and composer
• 5th » Canaan Banana, Zimbabwean politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
• 5th » Dean Stockwell, American actor
• 6th » Bob Akin, American race car driver and journalist (d. 2002)
• 6th » Marion Barry, American politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia
• 6th » Sylvia Robinson, American singer and producer (Mickey & Sylvia) (d. 2011)
• 6th » Choummaly Sayasone, Laotian politician, 5th President of Laos
• 7th » Florentino Fernández (boxer) named Florentino Fernández, Cuban boxer (d. 2013)
• 7th » Georges Perec, French author (d. 1982)
• 7th » Heinz Valk, Estonian caricaturist and politician
• 8th » Sue Ane Langdon, American actress and singer
• 8th » Gábor Szabó, Hungarian-American guitarist (d. 1982)
• 9th » Mickey Gilley, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 9th » Marty Ingels, American actor
• 9th » Tom Sestak, American football player (d. 1987)
• 10th » Sepp Blatter, Swiss businessman
• 10th » Alfredo Zitarrosa, Uruguayan singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 1989)
• 11th » Hollis Frampton, American director, screenwriter, and photographer (d. 1984)
• 11th » Antonin Scalia, American jurist
• 12th » Lloyd Dobyns, American journalist
• 12th » Patrick Procktor, Irish-English painter (d. 2003)
• 12th » Eddie Sutton, American basketball player and coach
• 13th » Michael Checkland English broadcaster
• 13th » Nana Meskhidze, Georgian painter (d. 1997)
• 14th » Bob Charles (golfer) named Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer
• 15th » David Andrews (Irish politician) called David Andrews, Irish politician, 21st Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade known as Minister of Foreign Affairs for Ireland
• 15th » Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (d. 1986)
• 16th » Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)
• 16th » Raymond Vahan Damadian, Armenian-American inventor, invented the Magnetic resonance imaging e.g MRI
• 16th » Elisabeth Volkmann, German actress and singer (d. 2006)
• 17th » Ladislav Kupkovič, Slovakian composer and conductor
• 17th » Patty Maloney, American actress
• 17th » Ken Mattingly, American admiral, pilot, and astronaut
• 18th » F. W. de Klerk, South African lawyer and politician, 2nd State President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize named Nobel Prize laureate
• 19th » Ursula Andress, Swiss-American actress
• 19th » Birthe Wilke, Danish singer
• 20th » Harold Mabern, American pianist and composer
• 20th » Vaughn Meader, American comedian and actor (d. 2004)
• 20th » Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican singer and producer
• 20th » Mark Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate, English lieutenant, lawyer, and judge
• 21st » Ed Broadbent, Canadian pilot and politician
• 21st » Brian Dee, English pianist
• 21st » Mike Westbrook, English pianist and composer (The Orckestra)
• 22nd » Ron Carey (labor leader) known as Ron Carey, American union leader (d. 2008)
• 22nd » Roger Whittaker, Kenyan-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 23rd » Jannis Kounellis, Greek artist
• 24th » David Suzuki, Canadian environmentalist and academic
• 26th » Giora Feidman, Argentinian-Israeli clarinet player
• 26th » Harry Kalas, American sportscaster (d. 2009)
• 27th » Malcolm Goldstein, American violinist and composer
• 27th » Otmar Issing, German economist
• 27th » Jerry Lacy, American actor
• 28th » Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian-Spanish journalist and author, Nobel Prize in Literature named Nobel Prize laureate
• 29th » Richard Rodney Bennett, English-American composer and educator (d. 2012)
• 29th » Mogens Camre, Danish politician
• 29th » John A. Durkin, American politician (d. 2012)
• 29th » Judith Guest, American author and screenwriter
• 29th » Joseph P. Teasdale, American lawyer and politician, 48th Governor of Missouri (d. 2014)
• 31st » Marge Piercy, American author and poet
• 31st » Bob Pulford, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 31st » Sandayū Dokumamushi, Japanese actor

Famous Deaths for March 1936

• 1st » Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian author and poet (b. 1871)
• 16th » Marguerite Durand, French journalist and activist (b. 1864)
• 18th » Eleftherios Venizelos, Greek politician, 93rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1864)
• 21st » Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer and conductor (b. 1865)
• 30th » Conchita Supervía, Spanish soprano (b. 1895)

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