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Tuesday January 28, 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 Dit –  says she is sure of the stork’s planned arrival – has some pillowcases and a bib laid up against the day!  She is sure starting soon!  Got a notice that I hadn’t paid for Correct English but I’m telling them I have. King George died last Monday night.

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

The funeral of George V was held. Britain observed 2 minutes of silence at 1:30 p.m. as he was interred at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.

Bundesarchiv Bild 102-10970, USA, Nathan Leopold in Stateville Penitentiary.jpgRichard Loeb of the notorious Leopold and Loeb murder duo was slashed to death with a razor by a fellow inmate in Stateville Penitentiary

Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich

The publication in Pravda of the article titled “Chaos Instead of Music” signaled Stalin’s displeasure with Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and led to the composer’s “redemption” in his Symphony No. 4

 

Chicago Daily Tribune Jan 28, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune Jan 28, 1936