1936
Roosevelt wins an overwhelming reelection victory and gains increasing support from blacks who feel he would like to achieve more for them than Congress will allow.
1936
Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. He later said in a televised interview that he had not been snubbed by Adolf Hitler, as had been widely reported, but had actually shook his hand.
1936
The U.S. Supreme Court requires Maryland University to admit a black student, Donald Murray, to its graduate law school.
1936 Action Francaise is officially dissolved by the French government for complicity in a physical attack on Leon Blum. (Surviving clandestinely, Action Francaise contributes to the ideology of the Vichy Government during World War II. It disintegrates in 1944 when France is liberated and Maurras, its leader, is imprisoned for collaboration.)
1936
Ioannis Metaxas establishes a Greek dictatorship.
1936
In Lithuania, where severe restrictions had been imposed on the number of Jews allowed to enter universities, not a single Jewish student is granted admittance to study medicine. (Atlas)
1936
The influential Jesuit magazine Civilta Cattolica published in Rome emphasizes that opposition to Nazi racialism should not be interpreted as a rejection of anti-semitism, and argues, as the magazine had done since 1890, that the Christian world (though without un-Christian hatred) must defend itself against the Jewish threat by suspending the civic rights of Jews and returning them to the ghettos. (Lewy)
1936
The German government gives the National Association of German Catholics Abroad a sum of more than 139,000 marks, in 1936 alone, for its pro-German and pro-Nazi activities among the German minorities of Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia. (Lewy)
1936
A Polish Jesuit periodical asserts that it is necessary "to provide separate schools for Jews, so that our children will not be infected with their lower morality." (Atlas)
1936
The Iron Guard, an influential antisemitic organization in Romania, bombs a Jewish theater in Timisoara, killing two Jews and injuring many more. (Atlas)
1936
Diana Mitford, Unity Mitford's sister, marries Sir Oswald Mosley in Berlin. Their wedding reception is held at the home of Joseph Goebbel's. (Guiness)
1936 January
The German government begins a series of trials of members of the religious orders accused of violating the foreign currency laws. Press coverage is hostile to the accused in almost all cases. (Lewy)
1936 January
An article in the Catholic Klerusblatt justifies the Nuremberg Laws as indispensable safeguards for the qualitative makeup of the German people.
1936 January
Moderate Republicans and leftist parties in Spain form a "Popular Front" in opposition to the conservatives.
1936 January 4
Ambassador Bergen in Rome writes to German foreign minister von Neurath that the Pope is protesting the violations of the Concordat by the Hitler government, and has several times threatened to bring his
complaints into the open. It has taken the moderation of Secretary of State Pacelli to prevent a rupture of relations. (Lewy)
1936 January 6
Churchill's new son-in-law, Duncan Sandys, joins him in Marrakesh.
1936 January 11
An attempt is made on the life of Romanian Chief Rabbi Jacob Isaac Niemirower.
1936 January 14
Churchill and Lloyd George leave Marrakesh for Meknes.
1936 January 15
Vicar General Riemer of Passau issues instructions allowing sterilized Catholics to receive the sacraments of matrimony, reversing the decision of January 4, 1935. (Lewy)
1936 January 15
Japan withdraws from the London Naval Conference.
1936 January 17
Churchill returns to Marrakesh and decides to remain away from England while Randolph is challenging Conservatives in Ross and Cromarty.
1936 January 20
British King George V dies at Sandringham, and his son, Edward VIII, becomes king of Great Britain. King George had five sons--King Edward VIII (later Duke of Windsor); King George VI; Henry, Duke of Gloucester; George, Duke of Kent; and Prince John, who died young--and one daughter, Mary, princess royal, who married the 6th Earl of Harewood.
