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1.4 July-September

July 11 - Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
July 13 - Murder of Spanish monarchist Jose Calvo Sotelo
July 16 – George McMahon tries to shoot Edward VIII at the Colour ceremony. Later he tries to claim he was working for MI5
July 17 - Spanish Civil War: Francisco Franco and other generals attempt a coup d'etat, starting a conservative rebellion against the recently-elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain. This marks the start of the war
July 18 - Troops of Francisco Franco land on Morocco and Barcelona - Spanish Civil War begins
July - British Police end routine armed patrols in London.
August 5 - Military coup in Greece - Ioannis Metaxas takes power
September 14 - Landslide in northern Norway - 74 dead

1.5 October

October 5 - In Jarrow, England, 200 unemployed shipyard workers begin a march to London to petition the government to create more jobs. On October 31, 197 of them arrive on the Houses of Parliament
October 9 - Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begins to transmit electricity from the Colorado River 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
October 13 - The Jarrow March sets off for London.
October 13 - Regular ferry traffic begins between Dover and Calais
October 23 - Condor Legion joins the Falangists
October 28 - US President Franklin Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
October 31 - The Boy Scouts of the Philippines was formed.

1.6 November

November 3 - U.S. presidential election, 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term in a landslide victory over Alf Landon.
November 12 - In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
November 16 - Edward VIII of the United Kingdom announces his intention to marry Wallis Simpson
November 20 - In UK, new Matrimonial Causes Act permits divorce on the grounds of cruelty, drunkenness, willful desertion, incurable insanity, and being a prisoner on a death sentence
November 23 - The first edition of Life is published.
November 25 - In Berlin, Nazi-Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, thus agreeing to consult on what measures to take "to safeguard their common interests" in case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation ( Adolf Hitler broke the terms of the pact when he signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact in August, 1939).
November 25 - Abraham Lincoln Brigade sails from New York City on its way to Spanish Civil War
November 30 - In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed in a fire (it had been built for the 1851 Great Exhibition).

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