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Saturday October 10, 1936

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At least 310 people were killed by a typhoon the struck Luzon in the Philippines over the past two days.

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The London Gazette announced that women over 18 could be employed filling three inch mortar bombs. It was first time since the Great War that British women could work in munitions factories.

The Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion was created in Nazi Germany.

A new Saturday Evening Post and Newyorker magazine

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigns in Plattsmouth

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Friday October 9, 1936

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

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Boulder Dam began generating electricity and Tens of thousands of people jammed the parade route on Broadway in Los Angeles as the street became ablaze with light

 

The European committee on neutrality in the Spanish Civil War met in London with representatives of 27 nations present. Many accusations were flung back and forth but no concrete proposals on how to resolve them were offered, and the meeting adjourned with no date set for another meeting.

The flag of the International Brigades

650 fighters of the International Brigades arrived at Alicante.

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Hindenburg over The Travelers Tower Hartford, Conn
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Thursday October 8, 1936

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

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Germany fired back at the Soviet Union, saying that it was “hardly sincere” that Russia would “accuse other states of doing what it itself has long been doing.” Germany denied sending airplanes or other military supplies to Spain.

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The first episode of the British television programme Picture Page was broadcast.

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A view of a formation of Overstrand bombing planes

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The SS Ohioan, built in 1914, ran aground near Seal Rocks
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Wednesday October 7, 1936

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

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The Stipa-Caproni takes off for its first flight.

The Soviet Union issued an ultimatum threatening to take active involvement in the Spanish Civil War unless Portugal, Italy and Germany stopped aiding the Nationalists.

 

 

 

German Panzer troops arrived in Spain to train Nationalist forces with tanks and AT guns.

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José Antonio Aguirre became the 1st President of the Basque Country.

Kyösti Kallio became Prime Minister of Finland.

{{{image_size}}}The Cole Porter musical Red, Hot and Blue opened at the Colonial Theatre in Boston for a pre-Broadway run ahead of its October 29 premiere at the Alvin Theatre.

 

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Tuesday October 6, 1936

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

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Image result for Regional Defence Council of AragonThe Regional Defence Council of Aragon was established in Spain.

British Fascist leader Oswald Mosley and Diana Mitford were secretly married in Berlin in a ceremony attended by Adolf Hitler.

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Kálmán Darányi became Prime Minister of Hungary.

 

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The New York Yankees won the World Series with a 13-5 win over the New York Giants in Game 6.

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Monday October 5, 1936

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

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Italy devalued the lira and introduced various levies on capital.

 

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In Moscow, the USSR State Symphony Orchestra performed in public for the time.

Baseball’s Lou Gehrig and Carl Hubbell on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Jarrow March: 200 Hunger marchers in Jarrow began their march to London. They carried a petition with 11,572 signatures asking for government help. The marchers hoped to draw attention to the 68 percent unemployment rate in the town

 

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Mongolian religious festival near Pailingmiao, capital of Inner Mongolia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sunday October 4, 1936

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

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The Battle of Cable Street took place on Sunday 4 October 1936 in Cable Street in the East End of London. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police, protecting a march by members of theBritish Union of Fascists

 

100,000 leftists marched in Paris in support of the Spanish Republic and fought in the streets with pro-Nationalists

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Saturday October 3, 1936

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

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A typhoon in Japan left approximately 70 dead.

A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker magazine

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USS Enterprise was christened by Mrs. Lucy (“Lulie”) Lyons Hall Swanson, wife of Claude A. Swanson, Secretary of the Navy

 

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In Spain, Franco created a cabinet with three generals, a diplomat and his brother Nicolás.

The earliest known public use of the term “fifth column” appeared in Mundo Obrero in an article by Dolores Ibárruri, who attributed the term to Emilio Mola.

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Collingwood defeated South Melbourne in the 40th Victorian Football League Grand Final.

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Aztec Bowl after its completion in 1936

The Aztec Bowl was dedicated on the San Diego State University campus in San Diego, California.

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Friday October 2, 1936

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In Austria, the Heimwehr expelled Emil Fey from its ranks and forbade other members of the organization from having any contact with him. Fey had been locked in a long rivalry with Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg for control of the Heimwehr.

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The New York Yankees, playing the New York Giants, set the team record for most runs scored in a single World Series game with 18

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Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia.

 

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Thursday October 1, 1936

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

Wrote Mary Jo asking about the check.  Have only 12 in Spanish Club

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General Francisco Franco is named head of the rebel Nationalist government in Spain

In Valencia, the Spanish Cortes met for the first time since July 18 and passed a law granting home rule to the Basque Country.

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Al Smith gave a nationally broadcast address in which he broke from the Democrats and endorsed Alf Landon for President of the United States.

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Juan  Demóstenes Arosemena became President of Panama.

 

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The Bourdon Bell is raised for placement in Rockefeller Tower
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