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Monday February 1, 1937

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George VI released the New Year Honours list, one month late due to the abdication crisis. Queen Elizabeth was made Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order.

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Argentina defeated Brazil 2-0 at the Estadio Gasómetro in Buenos Aires to win the South American Championship of football.

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The French aircraft manufacturer SNCASE was founded.

New York Governor Thomas Dewey is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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The waters are receding in the Ohio River Valley and moving into the Mississippi. Todays was the maximum discharge of the Ohio River at its mouth at 1,880,000 second-feet .

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Meantime,  a foot of snow is falling in Portland, Oregon

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Monday January 25, 1937

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The soap opera Guiding Light premiered on NBC Radio. It would make the jump to television in 1952 and become the longest-running soap opera in history by the time of its cancellation in 2009.

The rains continue in Ohio

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Leon Trotsky is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Monday January 18, 1937

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The Ohio River flood began when the river exceeded the flood stage of 52 feet.

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Hitler authorized the creation of Adolf Hitler Schools, special new schools for gifted boys 12 to 18 that would prepare them for the NS-Ordensburgen.

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William S. Knudsen is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

Image result for january 18, 1937Aunt Jenny’s Real Life Stories was aired for the first time by CBS

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Monday January 4, 1937

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

Carsey’s gift was in the P.O. this am.  A tiny bottle of perfume and a white and gold compact! Am so proud of both of them!  Slow day at school!!

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Coat of arms of Lebanon.svgFrance restored the Constitution of Lebanon after it had been suspended for a number of years.

The winners of the 2nd New York Film Critics Circle Awards were Mdgtt1936.jpgannounced. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town was named Best Film of 1936.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided De Jonge v. Oregon.

Wallis Simpson is  Time Magazine‘s person of the year.

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President Roosevelt and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt are seen up Pennsylvania Avenue during the inaugural parade in Washington, D.C.

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Monday November 30, 1936

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The Republicans launched the Villarreal Offensive.

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The Crystal Palace of London was destroyed by fire. Huge numbers of people turned out to watch the spectacular blaze.

 

 

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President Roosevelt visited Buenos Aires to an enthusiastic welcome

 

Marlene Dietrich is on the cover of this weeks Time Magazine

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Monday November 9, 1936

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Koco Kotta.jpgKostaq Kota became Prime Minister of Albania for the second time.

Four masked men stole the Wallace Sword from the Wallace Monument in Scotland.

 

 

The Premier of China, Chiang Kai-shek, is on the cover of this weeks Time Magazine

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John Barrymore and Elaine Barrie were wed in Yuma, Arizona a few minutes after midnight.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Bourdieu v. Pacific Western Oil Co. and Valentine v. United States.

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Monday November 2, 1936

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Returned Markhauls car, which we used for the trip, washed, greased and full of gas, besides giving Mr. M 3 pairs of sox.  Nize man!

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BBC Television Service, Britain’s first television station, was launched.

The current logo of CBC/Radio-Canada. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was launched.

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Robert Rutherford McCormick and  Joseph Medill Patterson are on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Monday October 26, 1936

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Joseph Stalin responded to rumors that he was dead by releasing a handwritten note that read: “I know from reports of the foreign press that I long ago abandoned this sinful world and moved into the other world. As one cannot doubt such foreign press dispatches unless he wants to be expelled from the list of civilized people, I request you to believe them and don’t disturb me in the calm of the other world. With respect, J. Stalin

 

 

Thomas Perran Jr is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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The first electric generator at Hoover Dam went into full operation

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Monday October 5, 1936

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Italy devalued the lira and introduced various levies on capital.

 

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In Moscow, the USSR State Symphony Orchestra performed in public for the time.

Baseball’s Lou Gehrig and Carl Hubbell on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Jarrow March: 200 Hunger marchers in Jarrow began their march to London. They carried a petition with 11,572 signatures asking for government help. The marchers hoped to draw attention to the 68 percent unemployment rate in the town

 

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Mongolian religious festival near Pailingmiao, capital of Inner Mongolia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Monday September 28, 1936

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The Colorado River is flooding at Austin, Texas (the lower Colorado basin)

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Famed English tennis player Eileen Bennett wed racehorse trainer Marcus Marsh

 

Chemist James Bryant Conant is on the cover of this weeks’s Time Magazine

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Johnny McGrory bests Nel Tarlenton in a bout for the British Featherweight Title from Nel Tarleton

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