February 1936 in History

Events in History

Feb 15 Adolf Hitler announces construction of the Volkswagen Beetle (the People's Car, aka the Käfer/Beetle)

Feb 19 Manuel Azaña becomes Prime Minister of Spain for the second time

Feb 26 Adolf Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"

Feb 29 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs 2nd Neutrality Act

Feb 1 G H Blake, Principal (Collingwood College, Durham U)
Feb 1 Azie Taylor Morton, 35th Treasurer of the United States (d. 2003)
Feb 4 Daan van Golden, Dutch sculptor
Feb 6 J. Howard Marshall III, American businessman, born in San Francisco, California
Feb 10 Olwyn Bowey, British artist, born in Stockton-on-Tees, Durham
Feb 10 Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator
Feb 12 Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist/dissident (Tiananmen Square, 1989), born in Beijing, China (d. 2012)
Feb 14 Fanne Foxe [Annabella Battistella], Argentine-American exotic dancer famous for her involvement in a sex scandal with Wilbur Mills, born in Nueve de Julio, Argentina
Feb 14 Takuo Aoyagi, Japanese engineer who invented the pulse oximeter, born in Niigata Prefecture, Japan (d. 2020)
Feb 16 Jill Kinmont, American skier

Feb 16 Carl Icahn, American businessman (Icahn Enterprises), born in NYC, New York

Feb 16 Murray Weideman, Australian rules football CHF (Collingwood VFL premiers 1953, 58 [c]; B&F 1957, 61, 62; Victoria 1956-60) and coach (Collingwood 1975-76), born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 2021)
Feb 18 Jean M. Auel, Finnish-American writer (Earth's Children series), born in Chicago, Illinois
Feb 19 Marin Sorescu, Romanian poet, playwright and artist (Iona, House under surveillance), born in Bulzești, Dolj County (d. 1996)
Feb 19 Ione Mylonas Shear, American archeologist (Bronze Age Greece), born in Champaign, Illinois (d. 2005)
Feb 21 Barbara Jordan, American politician (Rep-D-Tx, 1972-78), born in Houston, Texas
Feb 22 J. Michael Bishop, American immunologist & microbiologist (Nobel Prize 1989), born in York, Pennsylvania
Feb 27 Roger M. Mahoney, American cardinal (Archbishop of Los Angeles, 1985–2011), born in Hollywood, California
Feb 27 Ron Barassi, Australian rules footballer, born in Castlemaine, Australia
Feb 29 Jack R Lousma, American USMC Colonel, naval aviator, and NASA astronaut (Skylab 3; STS-3), born in Grand Rapids Michigan

Feb 2 Physicist Emilio G. Segrè (31) weds jewish woman Elfriede Spiro at the Great Synagogue of Rome in Italy

Feb 1 Georgios Kondylis, Prime Minister of Greece & general of the Greek army, dies at 56
Feb 2 Owen Seaman, British poet and editor (Punch), dies at 74
Feb 3 Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, consort of William of Wied, Prince of Albania (b.1885)
Feb 4 Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (b. 1895)
Feb 9 Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist, dies at 57
Feb 16 James Harvey Robinson, American historian (Ordeal of Civilization), dies at 72
Feb 17 Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theozentrische), dies at 74
Feb 19 Charles Harding Firth, British historian (b. 1857)
Feb 22 John Hope, American educator (President of Atlanta Baptist/Morehouse College,1906-36 and Atlanta University, 1929-36), dies at 67
Feb 22 Johan Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes Digte), dies at 74

Feb 27 Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and pioneer in psychology (Nobel Prize 1904), dies at 86

Feb 27 Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson (b. 1852)
Feb 28 Pedro Munoz Seca, La Caraba/La oca, dies at 55
Feb 28 Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1928), dies at 69