Tennis player Roy Stanley Emerson

Events in 1936 and 3-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Roy Stanley Emerson

• 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 Roy Stanley Emerson (3-11) in history

• Day 3-11 year 1839: The first Opium War between China and Britain broke out.
• Day 3-11 year 1903: Panama proclaimed its independence from Colombia.
• Day 3-11 year 1952: Clarence Birdseye marketed the first frozen peas.
• Day 3-11 year 1957: The Soviet Union sent the first animal, a dog named Laika, into space aboard the Sputnik II . Laika died in orbit.
• Day 3-11 year 1986: A Lebanese magazine broke the story of U.S. arms sales to Iran, leading to the Iran-Contra affair.
• Day 3-11 year 1992: Carol Moseley-Braun became the first black woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
• Day 3-11 year 2004: Hamid Karzai was declared the winner in Afghanistan's first presidential election.