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Wednesday October 21, 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.diary 2

Dad left at 9:45 for Clovis.  Hope he gets a good place.   Got book from Cobeau’s

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Image result for october 21, 1936The National Archives Welcomes Its First Researcher

 

Shirley Temple with ‘Ching Ching’ and ‘Road King’

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Chicago Daily Tribune October 21, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune October 21, 1936

 

 

Friday October 16, 1936

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

 

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The Siege of Oviedo ended in Nationalist victory.

Newspaper proprieter Lord Beaverbrook called on King Edward VIII and declared he would help enforce a voluntary media blackout on the king’s relationship with Mrs. Simpson.

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Rumors of King Edward’s relationship with Mrs. Simpson spread throughout England as the odds of Edward actually marrying her began to be weighed in the foreign press.American newspapers began disappearing from British newsstands without explanation. However, foreign magazines delivered to subscribers through the mail were arriving untouched.

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Paris went dark for one hour starting at 9:30 p.m. so a mock bombing raid could be conducted

Chicago Daily Tribune October 16, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune October 16, 1936

Saturday October 3, 1936

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.

No post today

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

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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.

Chicago Daily Tribune October 3, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune October 3, 1936