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Data on State levies, 1930-35, from U S Treas rept
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Submits plan to curb expenditures for Pres and Cong election campaigns
S on fascism at 8th Cong of Soviets
1936Dmitri Anosov, Russian mathematician and academic (died 2014)[†]
Dmitri Victorovich Anosov was a Russian mathematician active during the Soviet Union. He is best known for his contributions to dynamical systems theory.
1936Abbie Hoffman, American activist and author, co-founded the Youth International Party (died 1989)[†]
Abbot Howard Hoffman was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies") and was a member of the Chicago Seven. He was also a leading proponent of the Flower Power movement.
1936In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.[†]
The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. The exhibition took place from 1 May to 15 October 1851, and more than 14,000 exhibitors from around the world gathered in its 990,000-square-foot (92,000 m2) exhibition space to display examples of technology developed in the Industrial Revolution. Designed by Joseph Paxton, the Great Exhibition building was 1,851 feet (564 m) long, with an interior height of 128 feet (39 m), and was three times the size of St Paul's Cathedral.