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NOTEWORTHY EVENTS - 1936

* Italicized events actually happened. If the event is partially italicized, the parts in normal type have been changed for this reality. The changes could be extremely minor or quite significant.

• January 10 - President Alf Landon announces that the United States will boycott both the Winter and Summer Olympics, to be held in the Magyar Dominion in München and Budapest respectively, in protest of their recent aggressive military tactics and as yet unsubstantiated reports of atrocities.
  
• January 16 - Serial killer Albert Fish executed in Sing Sing
• January 31 - The Green Hornet radio show debuts.
• February 6-16 - 1936 Winter Olympics: Canada, Mexico and Australia join the United States in the boycott of the competition in München. Combined skiing (later known as Alpine) makes its debut, and military patrol is introduced as a demonstration sport. The International Olympic Committee refuses admission of this sport into the Olympic Program, but the expressed desires of Ferenc Szalasi forces the IOC to make this program a demonstration sport.
  
  Opening ceremonies at the 1936 Winter Olympics in München
  
• February - The Klaussteinhöhlen-Komplex, infamous for its use as a subterranean Justizvollzugsanstalt (JVA) by the D.H.R.V. during the Great Global War, is reopened by the Magyar Dominion as a medical research facility. It will be run by Dr. Miklós Nyiszli and a 25 year-old recent graduate of the University of München named Josef Mengele.
  
• February 17 - The world's first superhero, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in US newspapers
  
• February 26-28 - Led by Sadao Araki, the Imperial Way Faction engineers a successful coup against the Japanese government. Many opponents are killed in the conflict, including General Hideki Tōjō, who had been one of his supporters before the plot unfolded. In the ensuing transition of power, Emperor Hirohito loses much influence, and Japan begins a return to the old Shogunate system, but in the form of a modern Military Shogunate.
• March - The Population of the Kaposvár concentration camp eclipses 300,000
  
• March 1 - Construction of the Kennedy Dam is completed
• March 3 - Sadao Araki is named Minister-General of Japan. He is chosen narrowly over hardliner General Kazushige Ugaki. This choice leads to internal strife within the military.
  
  Rivals Sadao Araki & General Kazushige Ugaki
  
  
• April - The first NFL Draft is held
• May 8 - Jockey Ralph Neves is involved in a racing accident at Bay Meadows Racetrack in San Mateo, California and mistakenly pronounced dead. A while later, he wakes up in the morgue and promptly returns to the racetrack but is not allowed to compete in any of the remaining races because of his 'death.'
• Summer - Plans are announced for a Baseball Hall of Fame to be established in 1939, the game's supposed centennial, in Cooperstown, New York. 10 players will be slated for induction after national balloting later this year.
• June 6 - New York Special Prosecutor Thomas Dewey secures the conviction of Charles "Lucky" Luciano for prostitution. Luciano is later imprisoned at the Clinton Correctional Facility.
• June 9 - Republican National Convention: President Alf Landon secures the nomination for his re-election.
  
• June 19 - Joe Louis knocks out Max Schmeling in the ninth round of their heavyweight boxing match at Yankee Stadium in New York City.
• June 23 - Democratic National Convention: Alabama Senator Hugo Black is narrowly chosen as the party's candidate for President over Michigan Governor Royal S. Copeland and veteran Virginia Congressman Carter Glass. Oklahoma Senator Thomas Gore will join the ticket as the VP candidate.
• June 28 - His Royal Highness, Prince Alastair of Windsor, announces that he is removing himself from the line of succession to the throne of the United Kingdom. With no other direct descendants of King Arthur alive, it is determined that the next in line to the throne would be 46 year-old Prince Waldemar of Prussia, great-grandson of Queen Victoria. Cynics cite Alastair's announcement as convenient, noting Waldemar's historic relations within the Magyar Dominion and Prime Minister Oswald Mosley's obvious admiration for their government.
• July - Membership in the British Black Shirts exceeds 250,000
  
• July 18 - Spain's civil war begins when nationalist troops under the command of General Francisco Franco rise against the democratic republic with support of agents of the Magyar Dominion.
  
• August 1 - The 1936 Summer Olympics: Ceremonies open in Budapest, capital of the Magyar Dominion, marking the first live television coverage of a sports event in world history. Thirty-Six nations have joined the United States in boycotting the ceremonies, including Canada, Mexico, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Sweden and Norway.
  
• September 6 - The last surviving thylacine, Benjamin, dies alone in her (despite being named Benjamin, it was female) cage in the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
  
  The last photo of Benjamin before her death
  
  
• October 9 - Generators at the Kennedy Dam begin to transmit electricity from the Colorado River 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
• October 28 - U.S. President Alf Landon rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
• November 3 - U.S. presidential election, 1936: Republican Alf Landon is narrowly reelected to a second term over Democratic Hugo Black, Governor of Alabama, by a margin or 276 electoral votes to 255.
  
• November 23 - The first edition of Life is published.
• December 1 - In the United Kingdom, King Arthur abdicates the throne, citing ill health. Rumors swirl that the abdication is due to political pressure.
  
• December 11 - The British Parliament passes His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act 1936 on behalf of the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
• December 13 - His Royal Highness Prince Alastair, currently in the United States playing in CF for the Washington Monumentals, reaffirms his decision to remove himself from the line of succession to the British throne.
• December 26 - Amid controversy, Prince Waldemar of Prussia is crowned King Waldo of the United Kingdom. His first official act is to name Sir Oswald Mosley as Lord-Protector of the United Kingdom, a title not held since Richard Cromwell in 1659.
  
  King Waldo in his first official portrait
  
  
• December 29 - The British Parliament officially recognizes Sir Oswald Mosley as Lord-Protector of the United Kingdom.
  
• December 30 - The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike.