Okay, I think we're in business. Let's get started. Taking the advice of Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, "It's always best to start at the beginning. And all you do is follow the Yellow Brick Road."
Our Yellow Brick Road starts on July 2, 1936. Dan Brown's post has good suggestions for July 2 and 3, 1936.
Note for timeline editors:
If you need to insert a new line in order to capture more than one event on the same date, please use the date function to do so.
So, for example, if there are extra events to add for 2 July 1936, insert a new line in the spreadsheet.
Then put this in the date column:
=DATE(1936,7,2)
The order of parameters is year, month, day.
You may, of course copy the date function from the existing line.
Please do not type something like "Friday, July 3, 1936."
Although it is perfectly readable to a human being, it is not in the best format for the computer to understand it as a date.