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Britain announced a similar policy to Germany’s, warning that any attempt to interfere with British shipping in Spanish waters would be met with stern measures
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Moscow Trials: The first of the three show trials known as the Trial of the Sixteen began in the Soviet Union.
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Finished “The Fortress” and “Vanessa” by Hugh Walpole and enjoyed both. It is a little too much of one family’s history for three days tho’ A ready to call a halt. Ate supper with Virginia Copenhaver. It rained so instead we sat and talked – Very nice time. Bought M.Jo a trunk to be sent to Van Horn. It has rained off and on for two days and nights. What a blessing!
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A Wyoming rancher, working to save the pronghorn from extinction, transported some of the small antelope type animals to the east coast on the Hindenburg.
Due to the Kamerun incident, Germany ordered its warships to meet “unjustifiable acts of force” with force of its own to ensure German freedom of the seas
This is one of the three Savoia S.55X that showed up suddenly in Majorca, to stop the landing of the Republican forces
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The German merchant ship Kamerun was stopped by a shot across its bow and searched by a Spanish warship. Kamerun was forbidden to enter any Spanish port on the grounds of carrying oil and other war materials.
Charles Robert Redford Jr.is born in Santa Monica California.
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Took pictures of Nancy Jo Hymsol (?) She can take a few steps.
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Day 15 of the 1936 Olympic Games
The closing ceremony of the Summer Olympics was held. Germany won the medal count with 33 gold medals and 89 total.
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Start for El Paso at 6 a.m. Central Time. In El Paso by 8:30. M.J. -See Dit. Go to town. M.Jo gets two pair shoes. See Will Rogers in “Conn. Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” Family take Mary Jo back about 4 that afternoon – Dit has chest of drawers from Ruidors
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A huge crowd of over 15.000 people gathers around a scaffold to witness the public hanging of 22-year old Rainey Bethea. Shewas the last person to be publicly executed in the United States
Portugal accepted a French proposal for neutrality in the Spanish Civil War, an important step in the international nonintervention agreement France was seeking.
President Roosevelt made one of his few foreign policy statements of the election campaign in Chautauqua, New York. “We shun political commitments which might entangle us in foreign wars”, the president said. “We avoid connection with the political activities of the League of Nations … I hate war. I have passed unnumbered hours, I shall pass unnumbered hours, thinking and planning how war may be kept from this Nation.” This is remembered as the “I Hate War” speech
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Decide to bring me at Gormans (and Mrs. G’s father Mr. Marquis) to El Paso tomorrow. Jonathon remains firm in decision to go this year but D.P. next year. Wish he could go with M. J. this year!
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Day 11 of the 1936 Olympic Games
U.S.A. takes gold and silver in women’s platform diving .
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Day 10 of the 1936 Olympic Games
On this day in front of more than 90,000 fans, Hubert Shaw of the US team hit a first inning inside the park home run.