page_title: 1936
section_title: October
hierarchical_section_title: 1936 / Events / October
caption_attribution_description: English: Poor mother and children during the Great Depression. Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA. Español: Madre norteamericana y sus hijos durante la gran depresion. Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA. Suomi: Suuri lama lisäsi köyhyyttä koko maailmassa. Kuvassa yhdysvaltalainen perhe Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Português: A Grande Depressão causou pobreza geral nos Estados Unidos e em diversos países do mundo. Aqui, família desempregada, vivendo em condições miseráveis, em Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, Estados Unidos.
context_page_description: 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1936th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 936th year of the 2nd millennium, the 36th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1930s decade.
context_section_description: October
  Joseph Stalin's Great Purge begins in the Soviet Union.
  The Mästermyr chest is discovered in the Mästermyr mire (after which it is later named), west of Hemse, on the island of Gotland, Sweden.
  October 11 – Earl Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and builds Mississippi's first permanent rodeo arena at Columbia, Mississippi.
  October 19 – H.R. Ekins, reporter for the New York World-Telegram, wins a race to travel around the world on commercial airline flights, beating Dorothy Kilgallen of the New York Journal and Leo Kieran of The New York Times. The flight takes 18​¹⁄₂ days.
  October 25 – The Rome-Berlin Axis is formed.
  October 29 – The historic Uptown Theater (Washington, D.C.) opens.
caption: Family during the Great Depression, Oklahoma, 1936
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