(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

Had planned a dinner party at Dwight’s for Velma and Thelma’s birthday but Dwight had the flu so Bernard and I ate at the Cafeteria.  I went to Pete’s and Velma’s until he sent a telegram and worked a little (very little, I think!)  Got a Kodak picture of Pete and Velma.  Mrs. Martens for lunch.

Here’s what else is happening 80-years-ago today:

Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean. Amazingly the entire crew survives.  

Also, today the 1st U.S. airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, it happened in  New York.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

No Post today:

Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today:

The coldest temperature ever recorded on the Continent of Africa.   It was negative 11 in Ifrane, Morocco.

Read more: http://www.weatherexplained.com/Vol-1/Record-Setting-Weather.html#ixzz3txCAJ2ky

Abyssinia Crisis: Benito Mussolini mobilized 250,000 soldiers and ordered 50 planes to Eritrea.

The defense on the Hauptmann case rambles on in closing arguments.  The Italians are mobilizing for war in North Africa.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

Woke up this morning to the sound of rain!   Now (2:00) it is snowing and has been since about 10:30 this morning.  Hope it keeps up all day.  Everybody is thrilled over it!

Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today:

A teen shoveling snow in  uptown New York City finds an alligator in the sewer. The first streamlined electric railroad engine begins service.

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Wild weather in Texas, a tornado claims 12 lives.

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