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Wednesday July 29, 1936

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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 Olympic Torch Relay is closing in on the Olympic Stadium.  Germany was the first to start the tradition

A Yugoslavian athlete hands over the Olympic torch

The Nationalists captured Huelva.

The Berliner Tageblatt revealed that Germany had begun to refortify Heligoland, contradicting its denial of July 13. The matter came up again in the House of Commons where Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden expressed the government’s feeling that “individual matters of this kind, though they cannot pass unobserved, should not be raised at a moment and in a manner which might react unfavourably” on negotiations underway for a new European peace settlement.

July 29, 1936: Accompanied by 20 sea lions brought to the Chicago Zoological garden at Brookfield, a huge elephant seal was urged into the new sea lion grotto by a group of keepers.A new elephant seal  accompanied by 20 sea lions  are brought to their new home at the Chicago Zoological garden at Brookfield.

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune July 29, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune July 29, 1936

 

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Tuesday June 30, 1936

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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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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
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Sunday May 10, 1936

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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 2Heard Roswell Choral Club in recital of Sacred Numbers! Excellent!  I sat with Mr. Martens – Went to Lee’s (Hendrick) Hamburger stand for good hamburgers and cherry Root Beer! Trains scheduled changed.

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Joe DiMaggio hits his first  MLB HR

Adolph Hitler brings the Olympic Torch back to the games lighting it today for the summer games in August

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Haile Selassie gave a written statement to journalists explaining that he and his family fled Ethiopia because their death or imprisonment would not have served the interests of the people. “Upon consulting our nobles, it was agreed that we could best serve the interests of our people by going abroad so that we might freely pursue our efforts to safeguard the independence of Ethiopia”, the statement read.

Manuel Azaña became the new President of Spain.

 

 

 

Achille Varzi of Italy won the Tripoli Grand Prix.

 

 

Chicago Sunday Tribune May 10, 1936
Chicago Sunday Tribune May 10, 1936
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