Speedway Championship is held at Wembley Stadium in London, England. It is won by Australian Lionel Van Praag, with Englishman Eric Langton second and Australian Bluey Wilkinson third. September 13 – In response to a polio outbreak, Chicago Public Schools launches a distance education program which constitutes the first large-scale use of radio broadcasts to facilitate distance education. September 28 – After the election to the Swedish Riksdag's second chamber, Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp and his "Holiday Cabinet" ("Semesterregeringen") resign (though he remains as Minister of Agriculture) and Per Albin Hansson returns as Prime Minister, staying in office until his death from a heart attack in 1946. October Joseph Stalin's Great Purge begins in the Soviet Union. The Mästermyr chest is discovered in the Mästermyr mire (after which it is later named), west of Hemse, on the island of Gotland, Sweden. October 19 – H.R. Ekins, reporter for the New York World-Telegram, wins a race to travel around the world on commercial airline flights, beating Dorothy Kilgallen of the New York Journal and Leo Kieran of The New York Times. The flight takes 18 days. October 25 – The Rome-Berlin Axis is formed. November–December November 2 The BBC launches the world's first regular television service in high-definition (according to contemporary standards). The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) begins radio in Canada. November 3 – 1936 United States presidential election: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term, in a landslide victory over Kansas Governor Alf Landon; farmers support Roosevelt. November 9 – American fashion designer Ruth Harkness encounters and captures a nine-week-old panda cub in Sichuan, China; it becomes the first live giant panda to enter the United States. November 12 – In California, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic. November 20 – A levee failure and continued massive rain at the Mitsubishi Osarizawa mine, Kazuno, northeastern Akita, Japan, results in at least 375 deaths. November 23 – Cover date of the first issue of Life, a weekly news magazine launched in the United States under the management of Henry Luce. November 25 – The Anti-Comintern Pact is signed by Germany and Japan. November 30 – A spectacular fire destroys The Crystal Palace in London, originally built for the 1851 Great Exhibition. December 3 – Radio station WQXR is officially founded in New York City. December 5 – The 1936 Soviet Constitution, promulgated by Stalin, is adopted in the Soviet