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 ce
March 1: Hoover Dam is completed
July 17: Republican soldiers and Assault Guards during the July 1936 uprising in Barcelona, Spain
September 7: Extinction of Thylacine.
The Falling Soldier is a black-and-white photograph by Robert Capa, claimed to have been taken on Saturday, September 5, 1936. It was said to depict the death of a Republican soldier from the Libertar
1936
…solo transatlantic flight, from Abingdon-on-Thames, England, to Baleine, Nova Scotia. September 5 – Spanish Civil War: Robert Capa's photograph The Falling Soldier is taken. September 7 – The last known thylacine ("Tasmanian tiger"), named Benjamin, dies in Hobart Zoo in Tasmania…
Original title Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936
Freedom is not Free, a sculpture by Yigal Tumarkin, located in Netanya, Israel
October 7, 2015 "Capa statue" by Ervin Herve Loranth in Budapest, modeled after The Falling Soldier. The sculpture was criticized and later destroyed.