TV actress Ruta Lee

Events in 1936 and 30-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Ruta Lee

• 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 Ruta Lee (30-5) in history

• Day 30-5 year 1431: The divine heroine of the Arc, Joan, was burned to death as a heretic in Rouen, France.
• Day 30-5 year 1536: Eleven days after beheading his second wife, King Henry VIII married his third wife, Jane Seymour.
• Day 30-5 year 1911: The first Indianapolis 500 was won by Ray Harroun.
• Day 30-5 year 1922: The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, was dedicated by Chief Justice William Howard Taft.
• Day 30-5 year 1998: An earthquake in Northern Afghanistan (and subsequent aftershocks) killed an estimated 5,000 and injured at least 1,500. A quake on Feb. 4 in the same area had killed about 2,300.