Football coach Kostas Polychroniou

Events in 1936 and 12-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Kostas Polychroniou

• Rome-Berlin Axis is proclaimed (Japan to join in 1940).
• King George V dies; succeeded by son, Edward VIII, who soon abdicates to marry an American-born divorcée, and is succeeded by brother, George VI.
• Spanish civil war begins. Hundreds of Americans join the "Lincoln Brigades." (Franco's fascist forces defeat Loyalist forces by 1939, when Madrid falls.)
• War between China and Japan begins, to continue through World War II.
• Japan and Germany sign anti-Comintern pact; joined by Italy in 1937.
• Gen. Anastasio Somoza leads a coup d'etat in Nicaragua ushering in Somoza family dictatorship for more than 4 decades.

Birthday Kostas Polychroniou (12-11) in history

• Day 12-11 year 1920: Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first commissioner of baseball.
• Day 12-11 year 1927: Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party and Joseph Stalin became the ruler of the Soviet Union.
• Day 12-11 year 1942: The World War II battle of Guadalcanal begins.
• Day 12-11 year 1954: Ellis Island stopped serving as the chief immigration station for the United States. Twenty million immigrants went through Ellis Island in its 62 years of operation.
• Day 12-11 year 1970: A cyclone and tidal wave hit East Pakistan, killing over 200,000 people.
• Day 12-11 year 1981: The space shuttle Columbia was launched for the second time. It was the first time a space vehicle was used more than once.
• Day 12-11 year 1990: Akihito becomes emperor of Japan.
• Day 12-11 year 1997: Ramzi Yousef, the man behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was convicted in New York.