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Saturday April 4, 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.

 

Wrote Mrs. Berkness and Jaime – Played tennis about 1/2 hour but the wind had too much sand in it!  Visited with Palmers awhile

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Eleanor Roosevelt christens the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown

 

 

 

Lucky Luciano -April 1936
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Gangster Lucky Luciano is arrested in Hot Springs Arkansas. Shortly afterwards, New York City’s “Racket Buster”, Thomas E. Dewey had him extradited back to Manhattan.

 

 

 

 

A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post

Spectators at Upton Park watching a football match between West Ham and Aston Villa on 4th April 1936, view an eclipse of the sun during play. A new photography exhibition provides a poignant and beautiful retrospective   of London's extinct East End.:
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Spectators at Upton Park watching a football match between West Ham and Aston Villa on 4th April 1936, view an eclipse of the sun during play.

 

 

The Big Blow Out is released. Porky Pig  helps people in the streets in order to get cash quick to buy an ice-cream soda. Meanwhile a mad bomber is terrorizing the city.

 

 

On orders from the German Labour Front, industrial workers who did not vote in the March 29 elections were fired from their jobs as “slackers”.

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Cambridge won the 88th Boat Race.

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The airship LZ 129 Hindenburg completed its first transatlantic flight, arriving in Rio de Janeiro. From April 6 to 10 it flew back to Germany

Chicago Daily Tribune April 4, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune April 4, 1936

Tuesday March 31, 1936

The 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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The Hindenburg began its first transatlantic crossing

Italians won the Battle of Maychew and achieved complete victory on Ethiopia’s northern front.

Construction continues on the San Francisco Bay Bridge

Baseball returns to downtown Seattle

 

Syria: History of politics and conflict (1920 - 2013)Riot broke out in Damascus after some nationalists were banished to the desert near Dier- El- zor for allegedly fomenting trouble. As a result a general strike was declared which spread to other parts of Syria.

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune March 31, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune March 31, 1936

Sunday March 29, 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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99 percent of German voters turned out for parliamentary elections.  Voters were asked whether they approved of the occupation of the Rhineland and a single party list for the new Reichstag.

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In a publicity stunt, a handful of voters were packed aboard the airships Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg, which flew above the Rhineland as those aboard cast their ballots.

Two large squadrons of Italian bombers pounded Harar for two and a half hours, setting the city ablaze. Ethiopian Red Cross and Egyptian Red Crescent hospitals were also bombed despite being clearly marked and set off some distance from the city

The cold returns to the North East.  An ice storm freezes  Alfred, New York

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Chicago Sunday Tribune March 29, 1936
Chicago Sunday Tribune March 29, 1936

Thursday March 26,1936

 

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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The floods reach Ohio and a freeze takes root in California

Chicago Daily Tribune March 26, 1936 pg 5
Chicago Daily Tribune March 26, 1936 pg 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The worst plane crash in Mexican aviation history kills 14 people. Ten of the dead were European tourists, among them Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe and his wife.

 

RUP Stacked Logo.jpgRutgers University Press was founded.

 

 

 

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A group of engine mechanics gather on the access catwalk for engine car #3 to watch as the Hindenburg is led from her hangar

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USS Drayton DD 366 Launched for the first time. It was  Commissioned: September 1 1936

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune March 26, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune March 26, 1936

Saturday March 21, 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.

 

Felt like the tag-and-go of a misspent life all day.  My cold is worse – Went to Velma’s for music & to practice with Mrs. Martens at one.  I have to play tomorrow of all days! For two cents I wouldn’t do it!  Saw Mrs. Garcia and she came to Mrs. Martens to report the Council meeting at Dallas that she had just come from. Told us of refusal of Catholic Priest to contribute to the order of service to the Mexican column in the Record.   She put in the whole story in today’s paper!

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President Roosevelt allocated $25 million for flood relief in addition to the $18.4 million already allotted through emergency funds. At least 270,000 people are homeless.

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The Hindenburg floats past the Empire State Building in New York, 1936

 

The Noël Coward one-act play Star Chamber premiered in London

 

 

 

 

A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker magazine.

The German Calvary parades down the streets of Vienna

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Chicago Daily Tribune March 21, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune March 21, 1936

 

Wednesday March 4, 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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After four years of construction the Hindenburg  (LZ-129) takes flight.

A British Red Cross ambulance was bombed by Italian warplanes on the Korem plain in Ethiopia, killing seven patients.

The espionage trial of Hermann Görtz began in the Old Bailey.

The SS California strike ended when Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins agreed to arrange a grievance hearing and guarantee the strikers they would face no reprisals.

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune March 4, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune March 4, 1936

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Construction continues on the West Bay section of the San Francisco Bay Bridge

Friday February 21, 1936

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

 

Letter from Salt Lake Public Schools – Am going to answer it soon.   Took another long walk today with Alyce Claire.  This time Mary went along.  Got food card at Cafeteria.  Wrote several days ago to the Matson Steamship line in Los Angeles about routes and prices.  Also wrote to L.A. Chamber of Commerce about other steamship offices. Ty-Ty says Dad is planning to be here the 25th for two days.  Surely hope he can make it this time.

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The 1936 North American Cold Wave – New York City.

Fire and ice: Ice-coated fire engines are pictured following a fire in February 1936 at 33rd Street

Fire and ice: Ice-coated fire engines are pictured following a fire in February 1936 at 33rd Street

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The new Spanish government freed 34,000 political prisoners

The Hindenburg making its first landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey

Chicago Daily Tribune Feb 21, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune Feb 21, 1936