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Monday May 3, 1937

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

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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

Image result for may 3 1937Image result for may 3 1937Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for ‘Gone With the Wind”

 

 

 

 

 

President Franklin D. Roosevelt goes fishins at Port Aransas

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Chicago Daily Tribune May 3, 1937

Tuesday June 30, 1936

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

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

Margaret Mitchell holding her book

Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, one of the best-selling novels of all time and the basis for a blockbuster 1939 movie, is published

The Copeland Committee released a scathing report on the United States’ lack of funding and maintenance of navigational aids

Haile Selassie appeared before the League of Nations to give a speech. Italian correspondents in the press gallery created a loud disturbance and had to be removed by police before he could speak. Selassie then made an impassioned speech recounting the principal events of the war and criticizing the League for its ineffective response.

 

Siegfried Eifrig carries the Olympic torch in Berlin, before it is carried into the Olympic stadium

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune June 30, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune June 30, 1936

Wednesday June 10, 1936

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

No Post today

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

Chicago Daily Tribune June 10, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune June 10, 1936

 

Herbert Hoover spoke at the Republican National Convention, slamming President Roosevelt for increasing the national debt and preaching what Hoover called “the gospel of class hatred.”

More women are taking part in politics

Chicago Daily Tribune June 10, 1936 pg 3
Chicago Daily Tribune June 10, 1936 pg 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Staten Island Zoo opens to the public.

A mother and child observe birds at the newly opened zoo in Barrett Park, August 31, 1936. Courtesy of Parks Photo Archive, Neg. 9579.
https://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/zoos/staten-island-zoo

Gone with the Wind cover.jpgThe novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell was published in the United States