Pop - Singer Engelbert Humperdinck

Events in 1936 and 2-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Engelbert Humperdinck

• 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 Engelbert Humperdinck (2-5) in history

• Day 2-5 year 1885: Good Housekeeping magazine went on sale for the first time.
• Day 2-5 year 1939: Lou Gehrig established a new major-league baseball record when he played his 2,130th consecutive game. It would take another 57 years before Cal Ripken, Jr., broke it.
• Day 2-5 year 1945: The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin.
• Day 2-5 year 1955: Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
• Day 2-5 year 1969: The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II departed on her maiden voyage to New York.
• Day 2-5 year 1994: Nelson Mandela was victorious in South Africa’s first multiracial election.
• Day 2-5 year 1997: The Labour Party’s Tony Blair became Prime Minister of Britain, ending 18 years of conservative rule. At 44, he was the youngest prime minister in 185 years.
• Day 2-5 year 2011: U.S. troops and CIA operatives shot and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
• Day 2-5 year 2012: A pastel version of The Scream, by painter Edvard Munch, sold for $120 million in a New York City auction. The transaction set a new world record for an auctioned piece of art.