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Friday December 3, 1937

diary 2The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster

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Japanese forces took Danyang.

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Neville Chamberlain appointed Harold MacMichael to be the next High Commissioner for Palestine to replace Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope, who was retiring for health reasons.
Harold MacMichael

 

 

 

Night view of the Palmolive Building, Chicago, Illinois

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Kentucky Advocate from Danville, Kentucky on December 3, 1937 · Page 1

 

 

 

Thursday October 14, 1937

diary 2The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster

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

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A total of seven people were killed on a day of violence in Palestine. Three were killed when a mine blew up a train northeast of the Palestinian city of Jaffa. A policeman shot two Arabs who refused to halt near the scene of the explosion. Elsewhere, two attacks on buses killed two Arabs and wounded three Jews.

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Sea Lions peform at the London Zoo

 

 

 

 

Officials viewing Grand Coulee Dam site.

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Wednesday May 13, 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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Prime Minister of Spain

Santiago Casares Quiroga became Prime Minister of Spain.

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Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg

 

Austrian Vice-Chancellor Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg sent Mussolini a telegram congratulating him on his conquest of Ethiopia. The Austrian foreign office was flooded with diplomatic protests from other countries that same day.

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The pandering trial of Charles Lucky Luciano begin

The Arab Supreme Council sets a deadline on restrictions for Jews.

Chicago Daily Tribune May 13, 1936 pg 18
Chicago Daily Tribune May 13, 1936 pg 18

 

 

Crowds turn up at Circular Quay in Sydney to farewell the 1936 Olympic team who were sailing to the Berlin Games on the RMS Mongolia s.

Chicago Daily Tribune May 13, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune May 13, 1936

 

 

Monday April 13, 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.

Saw Tamarie Hubbard’s baby. It is the prettiest I ever saw I think!  Saw Love Before Breakfast” with Carole Lombard.  Read “Fragment of Empire” by Horgan. Good!

 

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

Eleanor Roosevelt hosts the Annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House

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In London, A woman wears her Birthday Suit to Easter Service at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

Chicago Daily Tribune April 13, 1936 pg 1
Chicago Daily Tribune April 13, 1936 pg 1

Walgreens opens in Miami

 

Adolph Hitler is on the cover of Time Magazine

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Ioannis Metaxas

Ioannis Metaxas became the new Prime Minister of Greece upon the death of Konstantinos Demertzis

Italian forces reached Lake Tana.

Joe Payne scored 10 goals in a single football (soccer) game during a 12-0 victory by Luton Town over Bristol Rovers.

 

Palestinian Arabs begin a general strike protesting against Jewish Immigration.

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Chicago Daily Tribune April 13, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune April 13, 1936