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Monday May 10, 1937

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Frozen food came to Britain when frozen asparagus went on sale for the first time

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Derby favorites are on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Image result for may 10, 1937Monroe, North  Carolina celebrates the Confederate Memorial Day

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Pres Franklin Roosevelt Smokes Cigarette and Fishing During Vacation on Gulf of Mexico

 

More than 5,000,000 gallons of water was pumped into a five-story brick building iin Detroit,  before a 5-alarm fire was brought under control

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Monday May 3, 1937

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The Hindenburg departed from Frankfurt, Germany, on the evening of May 3, 1937, on the first of 10 round trips between Europe and the United States that were scheduled for its second year of commercial service.

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Six days of civil violence known as the May Days began in Catalonia.

Actors Billy and Bobby Mauch are on the cover of this weeks Time magazine

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt goes fishins at Port Aransas

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Thursday April 29, 1937

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Image result for april 29, 1937 Ed Stanley drove the golden rivet to mark the completion of the $35 million Golden Gate Bridge

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The Irish Brigade fighting in Spain announced it was disbanding.

 

The Franco regime claimed that Guernica had been destroyed by communist demolition teams

 

 

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At Weybridge, K7721, the ninth production Wellesley is photographed

Image result for april 29, 1937The president visits New Orleans.

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Tuesday March 9, 1937

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt holds a fireside chat about the Court-packing scandal

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Chief of German Police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior

Heinrich Himmler ordered the arrest of “professional criminals” who had committed two or more crimes but were now free after serving their sentences. Over the next few days some 2,000 people were arrested without charges and sent to concentration camp

 

 

 

 

 

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Monday February 15, 1937

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An underground explosion in a coal mine in Wonthaggi, Australia killed thirteen men.

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11 were reported dead in flooding around southern Los Angeles

His eminence Dennis Joseph Dougherty is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Victims of the Ohio River Flood line up for food.

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The last Opel bicycle is produced
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Tuesday February 9, 1937

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The Ohio River is now below flood stage but the clean-up has just begin –

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A dead horse is lodged in a tree.
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A United Air Lines passenger plane crashed into San Francisco Bay with the loss of all 11 people aboard. It was the first aviation accident to involve a Douglas DC-3

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The transport plane is shown being raised after the crash

Image result for february 89, 1937A photo is snapped of Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister, leaving St, James Palace

 

This political cartoon was featured in the Brooklyn Citizen. 

 

Mardi Gras underway in New Orleans

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A view of crowd-packed Canal Street during the parade of floats
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Wednesday February 3, 1937

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In the wake of the Ohio River Flood, President Roosevelt presented a request to Congress for almost $3 billion for flood control improvements.

 

The Battle of Málaga began.

 

 

 

 

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The 33rd International Eucharistic Congress opened in Manila, Philippines. It was the first eucharistic congress held in Asia.

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The old Federal Building in Portland where men are waiting to help with snow shoveling.
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Saturday January 30, 1937

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The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937 continues as the Associated Press reported a total of 333 known deaths across eight U.S. states from the recent flooding. 225 of the deaths were in Kentucky.

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A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post 

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Image result for Anti-Soviet Trotskyite CenterThe Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center ended. 13 of the 17 defendants were sentenced to execution by firing squad.

 

 

Its President Roosevelt’s birthday

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Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt Cutting The President’s Birthday Cake

Hitler speaks on the fourth anniversary of the Nazi takeover of power. It is  always the occasion for a major Hitler speech.  Here he formally renounced Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles and banned Germans from accepting Nobel Prizes

 

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Wednesday January 20, 1937

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated for the second time as president, beginning the second of four terms in the office.

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Tuesday December 1, 1936

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Bishop of Bradford Alfred Blunt

The Edward VIII abdication crisis finally came out into the open in Britain when the Bishop of Bradford Alfred Blunt, speaking at his diocesan conference about the upcoming royal coronation, said of the king that “Some of us wish that he gave more positive signs of his awareness.” The Yorkshire Post used the speech to question the king’s behaviour and the rest of the British press soon followed suit, finally breaking their policy of self-imposed censorship.

5,000 Germans landed at Cádiz to fight for Franco.

Nazi Germany passed several new laws. Membership in the Hitler Youth was made mandatory and the death penalty was introduced for those who hoarded their wealth abroad.

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The Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt opened the conference with an address that included The More Abundant Life phrase

Chicago Daily Tribune December 1, 1936
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