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October 1936
The following events occurred in October 1936: October 1, 1936 (Thursday) *Francisco Franco was officially invested with the title of Chief of State in the throne room at Burgos. He made a short and simple speech vowing to "try to raise Spain to the place that corresponds to her history and her rank in earlier times." *In Valencia, the Spanish Cortes met for the first time since July 19 and passed a law granting home rule to the Basque Country. *Al Smith gave a nationally broadcast address in which he broke from the Democrats and endorsed Alf Landon for President of the United States. *Juan Demóstenes Arosemena became President of Panama. *Born: Duncan Edwards, footballer, in Dudley, Worcestershire, England (d. 1958) October 2, 1936 (Friday) *In Austria, the Heimwehr expelled Emil Fey from its ranks and forbade other members of the organization from having any contact with him. Fey had been locked in a long rivalry with Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg for control of the Heimwehr. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 1
Events Pre-1600 * 331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. * 366 – Pope Damasus I is consecrated. * 959 – Edgar the Peaceful becomes king of all England, in succession to Eadwig. * 965 – Pope John XIII is consecrated. * 1553 – The coronation of Queen Mary I of England is held at Westminster Abbey. * 1588 – The coronation of Shah Abbas I of Persia occurs. 1601–1900 * 1730 – Ahmed III is forced to abdicate as the Ottoman sultan. * 1779 – The city of Tampere, Finland (belonging to Sweden at this time) is founded by King Gustav III of Sweden. * 1787 – Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn. * 1791 – First session of the French Legislative Assembly. *1795 – More than a year after the Battle of Sprimont, the Austrian Netherlands (present-day Belgium) are officially annexed by Revolutionary France. * 1800 – Via the Third Tre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Fey
Emil Fey (23 March 1886 – 16 March 1938) was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army, leader of the right-wing paramilitary Heimwehr forces and politician of the First Austrian Republic. He served as Vice-Chancellor of Austria () from 1933 to 1934, leading the country into the period of the Ständestaat under Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuß. Fey played a vital role in the violent suppression of the '' Republikanischer Schutzbund'' (Republican Protection League) and, during the 1934 Austrian Civil War, of the Social Democratic Workers' Party . Life A career officer since 1908, Fey in the rank of a major fought with the Common Army in World War I and was awarded the Military Order of Maria Theresa in 1916. After the war, he joined the Carinthian paramilitary Heimwehr forces against the Yugoslavian troops. In 1927 he founded a local Heimwehr branch in Vienna and became a member of the conservative Christian Social Party. As his political career proceeded, he increasingly r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Swans
The Sydney Swans are a professional Australian rules football club based in Sydney, New South Wales. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), and the women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW). The Swans also field a Australian Football League reserves affiliations, reserves men's team in the Victorian Football League (VFL). The Sydney Swans Academy, consisting of the club's best junior development signings, contests Division 2 of the AFL Under-19 Championships, men's and AFL Women's Under-18 Championships, women's underage national championships and the Talent League. The club's origins trace back to 21 March 1873, when a meeting was held at the Clarendon Hotel in South Melbourne to establish a junior football club, to be called the South Melbourne Football Club. The club commenced playing in 1874 at its home ground, Lakeside Stadium, Lakeside Oval in Albert Park, Victoria, Albert Park. Playing as South Melbourne, it participated in the Victorian Football Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collingwood Football Club
The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. Founded in 1892 in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood, Victoria, Collingwood, the club played in the Victorian Football League, Victorian Football Association (VFA) before joining seven other teams in 1896 to form the breakaway Australian Football League#VFL era (1897–1989), Victorian Football League (VFL), known today as the Australian Football League (AFL). Originally based at Victoria Park, Melbourne, Victoria Park, Collingwood now plays home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and has its headquarters and training facilities at Olympic Park Oval and the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Centre, AIA Centre. Collingwood has played in a record 45 AFL Grand Final, VFL/AFL Grand Finals (including rematches), winning 16 (tied with and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilio Mola
Emilio Mola y Vidal (9 July 1887 – 3 June 1937) was a Spanish military officer who was one of the three leaders of the Nationalist coup of July 1936 that started the Spanish Civil War. After the death of José Sanjurjo on 20 July 1936, Mola commanded the Nationalists in the north of Spain, while Franco operated in the south. Attempting to take Madrid with his four columns, Mola praised local Nationalist sympathizers within the city as a " fifth column", possibly the first use of that phrase. He died in a plane crash in bad weather, leaving Franco as the pre-eminent Nationalist leader for the rest of the war. It was suspected that his death was a result of sabotage. However, this has never been proven. Early life and career Mola was born in Placetas, Cuba, at that time an overseas Spanish province, where his father, an army officer, was stationed. The Cuban War of Independence split his family; while his father served in the Spanish forces, his maternal uncle Leoncio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolores Ibárruri
Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez (; 9 December 189512 November 1989), also known as ("the passionate one" or Passion flower"), was a Spanish Republican politician during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and a communist. She is renowned for her slogan ''¡No Pasarán!'' (" They shall not pass!"), which she issued during the Battle for Madrid in November 1936. Ibárruri joined the Spanish Communist Party () when it was founded in 1920. In the 1930s, she became a writer for the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) publication ''Mundo Obrero,'' and in February 1936, she was elected to the Cortes Generales as a PCE deputy for Asturias. After going into exile from Spain towards the end of the Civil War in 1939, she became General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Spain, a position she held from 1942 to 1960. The Party then named her honorary president of the PCE, a post she held for the rest of her life. Upon her return to Spain in 1977, she was re-elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mundo Obrero
''Mundo Obrero'' (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Workers World'') is the periodical of the Communist Party of Spain (main), Communist Party of Spain (PCE). The paper is based in Madrid, Spain. History and profile ''Mundo Obrero'' was first published on 14 November 1931. During its initial phase the paper was edited by the Peruvians, Peruvian journalist César Falcón and was financed by the Soviet Union. Its headquarters is in Madrid. One of its notable contributors was Dolores Ibárruri. Its editor-in-chief was Jesus Hernández at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. The paper was illegally published during the Francoist Spain, rule of Franco and adopted a strict Bolsheviks, Bolshevist stance arguing that capitalism, social democracy and Trotskyism were all threatening views. The paper is published fortnightly and contains articles related to the Spanish and international political situations, the opinions of the different bodies of the party as well as relevant party members, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
