Opera Singer Anna Maria Alberghetti

Events in 1936 and 15-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Anna Maria Alberghetti

• 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 Anna Maria Alberghetti (15-5) in history

• Day 15-5 year 1862: The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of Congress on this day.
• Day 15-5 year 1911: The Standard Oil Company, headed by John D. Rockefeller, was ordered dissolved by the Supreme Court, under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
• Day 15-5 year 1918: The first air mail route in the U.S. was established between New York and Washington, DC, with a stop at Philadelphia.
• Day 15-5 year 1930: On a Boeing Air Transport flight between Oakland and Chicago, Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.
• Day 15-5 year 1940: Nylon stockings went on sale for the first time in the United States.
• Day 15-5 year 1972: Alabama Governor George Wallace was shot and crippled as he campaigned for the presidency.
• Day 15-5 year 1988: The Soviet Union began to withdraw its estimated 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.