(This is an entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Practiced for program – Jack Crosby’s funeral.

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

Adolf Hitler gave International Olympic Committee President Henri de Baillet-Latour his personal assurance that there would be no racial discrimination against athletes or visitors at next summer’s Berlin Olympics.  He also promised he would take down all anti-semitic signs during the games.

The prototype of the British Hawker Hurricane fighter plane had its first test flight.

Britain’s Duke and Duchess of Gloucester wave to the huge crowd gathered outside Buckingham Palace after a private wedding ceremony, in the Chapel.

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