What Happened in December 1936

Historical Events

Event of Interest

Dec 9 Australia all out for 58 v England, Bradman out for a duck

Cricket Legend Donald Bradman — Cricket Legend
Donald Bradman

Dec 10 Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry

Event of Interest

Dec 10 Britain replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI

King of Great Britain George VI — King of Great Britain
George VI

King of Great Britain Edward VIII — King of Great Britain
Edward VIII

Event of Interest

Dec 10 Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up the British throne to marry American divoree Wallis Simpson

Duchess of Windsor Wallis Simpson — Duchess of Windsor
Wallis Simpson

Nobel Prize

Dec 10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Carlos Saavedra Lamas for mediating end to Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, 1st Latin American to win

Nobel Peace Laureate Carlos Saavedra Lamas — Nobel Peace Laureate
Carlos Saavedra Lamas

Dec 11 Edward VIII announces in a radio broadcast that he is abdicating the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson

Event of Interest

Dec 12 Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan

Chinese Military and Political Leader Chiang Kai-shek — Chinese Military and Political Leader
Chiang Kai-shek

Dec 12 1937 NFL Draft: Sam Francis from University of Nebraska first pick by Philadelphia Eagles
Dec 13 Final Boston Redskin NFL game, lose to Packers 21-6, move to Washington, D.C.

NHL Record

Dec 13 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship with a 10–1–1 record under coach Curly Lambeau

NFL Head Coach Curly Lambeau — NFL Head Coach
Curly Lambeau

Dec 15 KVL-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KEEN (now KING)
Dec 16 John Monks and Fred Finklehoff's play "Brother Rat" premieres in New York City
Dec 17 Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen & dummy Charlie McCarthy, appear on TV
Dec 18 Queensland cricket all out for 49 v Vic, Fleetwood-Smith 7-17
Dec 18 Su-Lin, 1st giant panda to come to US from China, arrives in San Francisco
Dec 21 Bradman's 2nd consecutive Test Cricket duck! Australia all out for 80
Dec 22 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa
Dec 23 Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty
Dec 24 1st radioactive isotope medicine administered in Berkeley, California
Dec 25 Belgian bishops condemn fascism & communism
Dec 25 Ron Hamence scores 104 for SA v Queensland before 4,865
Dec 26 Israel's Philarmonic Orchestra forms
Dec 30 United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant
Dec 30 Beginning of the "feud" between comedians Fred Allen and Jack Benny on Allen's "Town Hall Tonight" show

Famous Birthdays

Dec 2 Peter Michael Braun, composer
Dec 4 Larry Davis, blues singer/guitarist
Dec 5 James Lee Burke, American writer
Dec 6 Kenneth Copeland, American televangelist
Dec 6 David Ossman, American writer and comedian (The Firesign Theatre), born in Santa Monica, California
Dec 7 Martha Layne Collins, Baghdad Ky, (Gov-D-Ky)
Dec 8 David Carradine, actor (Kung Fu, Mean Streets, Kill Bill V.1 & 2), born in Hollywood, California
Dec 8 Peter Parfitt, cricketer (fine England batsman of the 1960's)
Dec 8 W S "Buster" Farrer, cricketer (South African Test batsman 1962-64)
Dec 8 Brad Jurjens, Estonia, director (The Bank Job)
Dec 11 Hans van den Broek, Dutch foreign minister (-1992)
Dec 11 Taku Yamasaki, Japanese politician
Dec 12 Bengt Emil Johnson, composer
Dec 12 Iolanda Balas, Romania, high jumper (Olympic gold 1960)
Dec 13 Karim Aga Khan, leader of the Nizari Ismailis, prince and billionaire
Dec 13 J. C. Martin, American baseball player
Dec 14 Robert Alan Ridley Parker, American PhD/astronaut (STS 9, STS 35), born in NYC, New York
Dec 16 Morris Dees, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center
Dec 17 Tommy Steele [Thomas Hicks], English pop singer, 1st British Rock and Roll star, born in London
Dec 17 Frank Martinus Arion, [F Efraim M], Antilles, writer (Double Play)
Dec 17 Roland Sheldon, pitcher (NY Yankees)

Francis

Dec 17 Pope Francis [Jorge Mario Bergoglio], Catholic Pope (2013-) 1st Jesuit pope, 1st from the Americas and 1st non-European pope since Syrian Gregory III in 741, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Dec 18 Malcolm Kirk, English professional wrestler (d. 1987)
Dec 19 Marian McKnight, Miss America 1957
Dec 22 Hector Elizondo, actor (American Gigolo, Young Doctors in Love), born in NYC, New York
Dec 22 James Burke, British science historian and broadcaster (Connections), born in Derry, Northern Ireland
Dec 22 Wojciech Frykowski, Polish actor (d. 1969)
Dec 23 Bobby Ross, NFL coach (San Diego Chargers)
Dec 23 Claude Albert Coppens, composer
Dec 23 Frederic Forrest, ,American actor (The Rose, Lonesone Dove), born in Waxahachie, Texas
Dec 23 James Stacy [ Maurice William Elias], American actor (Lancer), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2016)
Dec 25 Alexandra HEOC, English princess/daughter of Sir Angus Ogilvy
Dec 25 Ismail Merchant, producer (Householder), born in Mumbai, India
Dec 26 Kitty Dukakis, substance abuser/wife of Michael (Gov-Mass)
Dec 27 Lee Salk, Russian-American child psychologist and author, born in New York, New York (d. 1992)
Dec 27 Phil Sharpe, English cricketer (12 Tests), born in Shipley, West Yorkshire (d. 2014)
Dec 28 Jacques Mesrine, French criminal (d. 1979)
Dec 28 Lawrence Schiller, American journalist

Ray Nitschke

Dec 29 Ray Nitschke, American NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers), born in Elmwood Park, Illinois (d. 1998)

Dec 29 Vitaly Alexeyevich Godzyatsky, composer

Mary Tyler Moore

Dec 29 Mary Tyler Moore, American actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ordinary People), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2017)

Dec 29 Eduard Martsevich, Soviet-Russian actor and People's Artist of the RSFSR, born in Tbilisi, USSR (d. 2013)

Famous Weddings

Wedding of Interest

Dec 22 Filmmaker Billy Wilder (30) weds first wife Judith Coppicus

Wedding of Interest

Dec 24 Paleoanthropologist Mary Nicol (23) weds archaeologist Louis Leakey (33) in England

Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey — Paleoanthropologist
Mary Leakey

Archaeologist and paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey — Archaeologist and paleoanthropologist
Louis Leakey

Dec 28 British best-selling romantic author Barbara Cartland (35) marries 2nd husband Hugh McCorquodale

Wedding of Interest

Dec 28 Football player Bronko Nagurski (28) weds childhood sweetheart Eileen Kane in International Falls, Minnesota

Hall of Fame American Football Player Bronko Nagurski — Hall of Fame American Football Player
Bronko Nagurski

Famous Deaths

Dec 2 John Ringling, American circus owner (b. 1866)
Dec 10 Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Six Characters in Search of An Author-Nobel 1934), dies at 69
Dec 10 Robert Abel, cricketer (744 runs in 13 Tests for Eng 1888-1902), dies
Dec 18 Andrija Mohorovičić, Austro-Hungarian-born Yugoslav seismologist (b. 1857)
Dec 20 Baron De Borchgrave, Belgian ambassador, murdered in Madrid
Dec 24 Dragutin Gorjanovic-Kramberger, Croatian paleontologist (discovery and descriptions of the Neandertal remains from the Huŝnjakova rock shelter at Krapina in northwestern Croatia), dies at 80
Dec 25 Pierre Maurice, Swiss composer, dies at 68
Dec 27 Hans von Seeckt, German Gen/advisor of Chiang Kai-shek, dies at 70
Dec 31 Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Span philosopher/poet (Cancionero), dies at 72
Dec 31 William FA Ellison, Irish clergyman/astronomer, dies at 72

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