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Kansas City City Hall was dedicated.
The new San Franciso Airport administration and terminal buildings also dedicated.
Wallace Wade is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine
Celâl Bayar became Prime Minister of Turkey.
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Arnold and I attended S.S. and church left for Roswell about 2 P.M. – Got to Roswell at 10. He had to leave for Andrews after that. Surely hated to see him go and have to travel so far after eleven!
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Jean Batten set a new record for flying from Australia to England when she landed at Croydon Airport 5 days, 18 hours and 15 minutes after leaving Port Darwin.
The French freighter Oued Mellah was bombed and sunk by a plane of unknown nationality east of Barcelona. and the British cargo ship Haida left Seattle for Hong Kong and disappeared.
The radio opera I’ve Got the Tune was first broadcast on CBS Radio.
Three American photographers take photos of a dancing “ghost” woman on the island of Ceylon – read more by clicking here.
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Fooled around all day and had a shower at Mrs. Wheat’s for me from everyone in Van Horn. Arnold had to make a speech too! Surely was a lovely affair with Halloween decoration and a golden pumpkin coach brought in about 50 gifts!
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Federal elections were held in Australia. The Australian Labour Party picked up 11 seats in the House of Representatives and 13 in the Senate, but the incumbent United Australia Party led by Prime Minister Joseph Lyons continued to stay in power with the help of its coalition partner the Country Party.
The Village of Freeport, New York Fire Department opens new company quarters.
Clan Mackenzie SS was a British cargo steamer of 6,554grt owned by Clan Line Steamers. She was involved in a collision and sank off the Liverpool Bar Light Vessel, Liverpool Bay
A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker Magazine
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Arnold came to take me to Van Horn. Left about 5. Got there about 11:30 New Mex time
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The Duke of Windsor and his wife met Adolf Hitler at the Berghof. As they departed Hitler made the Nazi salute, which the Duke returned.
Riots broke out in Khemisset, French Morocco when nationalists demanding political reforms clashed with police.
The historical film Conquest starring Greta Garbo and Charles Boyer was released.
The Allard Ski Shop In Paris
68 Silly Symphony The Old Mill
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The Asturias Offensive and the War in the North ended in Nationalist victory with the capture of Gijón.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco increased his powers with a decree concentrating all the authority into a new National Council, whose members Franco could appoint and dismiss as he wished. Franco assumed the right to name his own successor as well.
62 were executed in Stalin‘s latest purge.
The Catholic Centre Party in the Free City of Danzig was ordered to dissolve, leaving the Nazi Party as the only party allowed to exist in Danzig.
Howard Hughes’ inspects his Sikorsky S-43 also known as the flying boat
The screwball comedy film The Awful Truth starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant was released.
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The Japanese Tenth Army was formed.
Errol Flynn Relaxing on His Yacht
Jewish fishermen carry their nets aboard a trawler before setting out to sea
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Italy raised taxes significantly in an effort to meet the cost of increased arms production and maintaining its colonies
A group of small people visiting Sam Rayburn, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, in Washington DC
Ernest Rutherford, The father of Nuclear Physics passes away.
A woman churns butter at the Agriculture show in London.
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Recession of 1937–38: The New York Stock Exchange crashed to 125.73 points, its lowest level in two years.
The historic Reims Cathedral, heavily damaged in the World War, was re-consecrated.
The First Presentation of the American Welding Society’s Lincoln Gold Medal. Colonel Glen F. Jenks, chairman of Award Committee of the American Welding Society, presented the Lincoln Gold Medal to Thomas M. Jackson
Ernest Hemingway is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine
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A United Air Lines Douglas DC-3 crashed at Haydens Peak, Wyoming in adverse weather, killing all 19 aboard
Rioting broke out in Teplice, Czechoslovakia between members of the Sudeten German Party and police.
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Japanese forces occupied Baotou
The Dairy show is underway in London
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Several fascist organizations united to form the Hungarian National Socialist Party.
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini escaped to Syria before the British could include him among the more than 100 Arab leaders in Palestine they arrested.
An alcohol test is tested, in Kansas city
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