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President Roosevelt lifted the restrictions the United States had placed against Italy and Ethiopia under the Neutrality Act
The 1936 North American Heat Wave begins with temperatures exceeding 100 degrees
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Max Schmeling knocked out Joe Louis in the 12th round of their bout at Yankee Stadium in front of 39,878. Schmeling’s victory was considered a significant upset.
The Irish Free State declared the Irish Republican Army illegal.
Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp became 24th Prime Minister of Sweden.
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Anthony Eden told the British House of Commons that there was “no longer any utility” in continuing sanctions against Italy, causing cries of “Shame!” and “Treachery!” to ring out from the Labour benches. Eden explained that the decision was made to prevent the European situation from deteriorating. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin said his government was “hoping to bring the French, the Germans and ourselves into conference for the better security of the peace of Europe. The part that Germany can play for good or for evil in Europe is immense, and if we believe the opportunity is presented, let us do what we can to use it for good.”
The first in a series of six articles by Miguel Maura appeared in the leading Madrid newspaper El Sol calling for a multiparty “national Republican dictatorship” to save Spain from descending into anarchy.
The Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling fight at Yankee Stadium was postponed 24 hours due to rain.
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The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that most of the New Deal-inspired legislation passed by the previous Prime Minister R. B. Bennett was invalid.
Heinrich Himmler was appointed Chief of the German Police
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Belgian troops were ordered mobilized to protect public services as thousands more workmen joined the miners already out on strike.
José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones stood in the Cortes Generales in Spain and read out statistics, which he challenged the government to disprove, showing that in the last 48 hours, 65 people had been killed, 36 churches had been destroyed by fire and 34 more severely damaged. Prime Minister Quiroga did not dispute the statistics but blamed the country’s strife on fascists.
24 died when a ferry sank in the Danube at Budapest.
Havørn Accident: A Junkers Ju 52 crashed into the mountain Lihesten in Norway, killing all 7 aboard. It was the first fatal aviation accident in Norway
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Postal carriers set out on their rounds from the James A. Farley post office NY City to deliver the first round of World War 1 “bonus army” checks
A munitions factory explosion near Tallinn, Estonia killed about 40 people.
Twenty thousand flocked to Union Station to inspect the new ultra-modern City of Denver streamlined train.
James R. Angell is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine.
Giovanni Mercati and Eugène Tisserant were made cardinals by Pope Pius XI.
The Commodity Exchange Act was enacted in the United States.
The Vickers Wellington bomber plane made its first flight
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Despite the new laws allowing for the death penalty, Arab snipers wounded 5 Jews on the Jaffa highway and Jericho road. Troops escorting a Jewish convoy returned fire.
120,000 Belgian miners decided to go on strike
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100,000 marched in Guangzhou in an anti-Japanese demonstration.
The government of Palestine empowered civil courts to hand out the death penalty for rioting, bomb throwing, firing at soldiers or interfering with activities at harbours and railroads
A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post
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Frank Knox was selected as the Republican vice presidential nominee on the final day of the National Convention.
18 Jews were wounded in a train bombing at Qalqilya.
President Roosevelt speaks at the Cotton Bowl on the Texas Centenneal Celebration.
United States Army Coast Defense 14-inch railway gun is is fired during target practice near Ocaenside
The RNC wraps up.
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The Republican Party unanimously nominated Governor of Kansas Alf Landon as its candidate for president.
The Coppa Italia Final was played for the first time since 1922. Torino defeated Alessandria 5-1.
James Henry Thomas resigned his seat in the British House of Commons over the budget leak scandal.
The London International Surrealist Exhibition opened in England
C.V. Mauldin begins her 36,535 mile trip around the world. She recorded the trip in her diary which later became three novels.
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