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  • Spain
    Jan, 1936
    Spanish Civil War

    Popular front alliance was organised

    Spain
    Jan, 1936

    Landowners taunted workers by saying that if they went hungry, they should "Go eat Republic!" Bosses fired leftist workers and imprisoned trade union and socialist militants, and wages were reduced to "salaries of hunger." A popular front alliance was organised, which narrowly won the 1936 elections.




  • Italy
    Jan, 1936
    Benito Mussolini

    Mussolini meeting with the German Ambassador

    Italy
    Jan, 1936

    In January 1936, Mussolini told the German Ambassador Ulrich von Hassell that: "If Austria were in practice to become a German satellite, he would have no objection".




  • New York, U.S.
    Saturday Jan 11, 1936
    Donald Trump

    Fred and Mary were married

    New York, U.S.
    Saturday Jan 11, 1936

    Trump's mother Mary Anne MacLeod was born in Scotland. Fred and Mary were married in 1936 and raised their family in Queens.




  • U.S.
    Jan, 1936
    Anna May Wong

    Wong chronicled her experiences in a series of articles printed in U.S. newspapers

    U.S.
    Jan, 1936

    Embarking in January 1936, Wong chronicled her experiences in a series of articles printed in U.S. newspapers such as the New York Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Examiner, the Los Angeles Times, and Photoplay.




  • Sandringham House, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
    Monday Jan 20, 1936
    Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

    King George V death

    Sandringham House, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom
    Monday Jan 20, 1936

    Margaret's grandfather, George V, died when she was five, and her uncle acceded as King Edward VIII.




  • Sandringham Estate, United Kingdom
    Monday Jan 20, 1936
    Edward VIII

    King George V died

    Sandringham Estate, United Kingdom
    Monday Jan 20, 1936

    King George V died on 20 January 1936, and Edward ascended the throne as King Edward VIII.




  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Monday Jan 20, 1936
    Winston Churchill

    Edward VIII succeeded his father

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Monday Jan 20, 1936

    In January 1936, Edward VIII succeeded his father, George V, as monarch. His desire to marry an American divorcee, Wallis Simpson, caused the abdication crisis. Churchill supported Edward and clashed with Baldwin on the issue.


  • St James's Palace, Marlborough Road, London, United Kingdom
    Tuesday Jan 21, 1936
    Edward VIII

    Edward broke with Custom

    St James's Palace, Marlborough Road, London, United Kingdom
    Tuesday Jan 21, 1936

    The next day, accompanied by Simpson, he broke with custom by watching the proclamation of his own accession from a window of St James's Palace.


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