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January 1936 in History

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Jan 14 L. M. (Mario) Giannini elected President of Bank of America

Amadeo Giannini — Banker and Entrepreneur Amadeo Giannini

Jan 15 1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio
Jan 15 Nonprofit Ford Foundation incorporates
Jan 16 1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah, Florida
Jan 16 Spanish socialists, communists and anarchists form Unidad Popular

Event of Interest

Jan 20 Edward VIII succeeds British King George V

Edward VIII — King of the United Kingdom Edward VIII

Jan 23 Catholic People's Party (KVP) of Curacao forms
Jan 24 Albert Sarraut becomes Prime Minister of France

Event of Interest

Jan 24 Pierre Laval's second French government falls

Pierre Laval — Prime Minister of France and Head of Vichy France Pierre Laval

Jan 31 "Green Hornet" radio show is 1st heard on WXYZ Radio in Detroit

Birthdays in History

Jan 1 James Sinegal, American businessman, co-founder and CEO of Costco, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Jan 6 Julio Maria Sanguinetti Cairolo, Uruguayan politician (President, 1985-90, 1995-2000), born in Montevideo, Uruguay
Jan 7 Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and photographer, born in Buka Island, Papua New Guinea
Jan 8 Ferdinand Hartzenberg, South African Minister of Education (1979-82), born in Lichtenburg, South Africa
Jan 8 Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Australian-born British scientist, born in Sydney, Australia
Jan 9 Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer, born in Fairburn, Georgia
Jan 10 Al Goldstein, American publisher & pornographer, born in Williamsburg, New York (d. 2013)
Jan 10 Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist & radio astronomer (1978 Nobel laureate), born in Houston, Texas

Stephen E. Ambrose (1936-2002)

Jan 10 American historian (Band of Brothers), born in Lovington, Illinois

Stephen E. Ambrose

Jan 11 Eve Hesse, German born Jewish-American sculptor., born in Hamburg, Germany
Jan 13 Edward Rell Madigan, American politician (US Secretary of Agriculture 91-93, Rep-R-IL, 1973-91), born in Lincoln, Illinois (d. 1994)
Jan 15 Concepcion Picciotto, American peace activist (longest political protest in US history, outside The White House), born in Vigo, Spain (d. 2016)

Edward Feigenbaum (87 years old)

Jan 20 American computer scientist ("father of expert systems"), born in Weehawken, New Jersey

Edward Feigenbaum

Jan 22 Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel laureate
Jan 22 Ong Teng Cheong, 5th President of Singapore (d. 2002)
Jan 25 Dan Schaefer, American politician (Rep-R-CO, 1983-99), born in Guttenberg, Iowa (d. 2006)
Jan 26 Sal Buscema, American comic book artist
Jan 27 Barry C. Barish, American Physicist (Nobel Prize 2017, gravitational waves), born in Omaha, Nebraska
Jan 27 Ismail Kadare, Albanian author/poet (Dimri i Madh)

Samuel C. C. Ting (87 years old)

Jan 27 American physicist and Nobel Laureate (1976 J/ψ particle), born in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Samuel C. C. Ting

Jan 28 Bill Jordan, British trade unionist
Jan 28 Enid Castle, principal (Cheltenham Ladies' College)
Jan 29 Patrick Caulfield, British painter and printmaker, born in London (d. 2005)
Jan 30 F. Vernon Boozer, American politician, born in Norfolk, Virginia

Deaths in History

Jan 2 Sir Francis Newdegate, English politician (Governor of Tasmania, Western Australia), dies at 73
Jan 16 Albert Fish, American serial killer, executed at 65
Jan 17 Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian author (b. 1885)

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Jan 18 English author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907), dies at 70

Rudyard Kipling

George V (1865-1936)

Jan 20 King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India (1910-36), dies at 70 after being euthanized by his doctor

George V

Jan 28 Richard Loeb, American Murder, killed Bobby Franks along with Nathan Leopold, killed in prison at 30

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