Adidas and Puma were founded by two brothers.
Adolf and Rudolf Dassler made shoes together; Jesse Owens wore their spikes at the 1936 Olympics. In 1949 they fell out: Adolf founded Adidas, Rudolf Puma.
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- 1934 Until 1934 people in Turkey were not required to have surnames.
- 1935 Until 1935 the West called the country Persia.
- 1935 · 1937 The Kremlin's ruby stars are less than a century old. Double-headed eagles topped the towers until 1935; they gave way to stars set with gems, and in 1937 to today's ruby-glass stars.
- 1936 The thylacine was granted protection on 10 July 1936; the last known animal died at Hobart Zoo on 7 September — just 59 days later.
- 1936 The idea of the computer and the death of the last thylacine both belong to 1936.
- 1937 Chkalov flew over the North Pole to Vancouver — not the Canadian city, but its namesake in Washington State, USA. The nonstop flight from Moscow in June 1937 took 63 hours.