Daily Archives: January 29, 2016

Wednesday January 29, 1936

diary 2The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary,  written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

Letter from Jaime – the sky is falling!   He is planning to go to the operas – maybe so I  go too!   P.T.A. today with Charlotte Kyng on the programmer!

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

Cooperstown, New York, the Baseball Hall of Fame announces the election of five charter members: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson.

The Montreal Gazette Jan 30, 1936
The Montreal Gazette Jan 30, 1936

 

The Soviet Academy of Sciences announced that it had revived insects and lobsters buried 3,000 years ago under Siberian permafrost

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune Jan 29,1936
Chicago Daily Tribune Jan 29,1936

Tuesday January 28, 1936

diary 2The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary,  written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

Letter from Dit –  says she is sure of the stork’s planned arrival – has some pillowcases and a bib laid up against the day!  She is sure starting soon!  Got a notice that I hadn’t paid for Correct English but I’m telling them I have. King George died last Monday night.

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

The funeral of George V was held. Britain observed 2 minutes of silence at 1:30 p.m. as he was interred at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.

Bundesarchiv Bild 102-10970, USA, Nathan Leopold in Stateville Penitentiary.jpgRichard Loeb of the notorious Leopold and Loeb murder duo was slashed to death with a razor by a fellow inmate in Stateville Penitentiary

Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich

The publication in Pravda of the article titled “Chaos Instead of Music” signaled Stalin’s displeasure with Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and led to the composer’s “redemption” in his Symphony No. 4

 

Chicago Daily Tribune Jan 28, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune Jan 28, 1936