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Monday June 21, 1937

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.

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

 

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Leon Blum

Léon Blum resigned as Prime Minister of France when the Senate refused to give him special powers to deal with the country’s financial crisis.

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Ohio Governor Martin L. Davey ordered 4,500 National Guardsmen to Youngstown.

The Wimbledon Championships were televised for the first time, on BBC Television.

Dr Morris Fishbein is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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The Cole Bros Circus arrives in Montreal

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Buffalo is flooding.

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Chicago Daily Tribune June 21, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune June 21, 1937

 

Monday November 16, 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

 

No Post today

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

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Edward VIII summoned Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and told him he wanted to marry Wallis Simpson. Baldwin said the British public would not accept Simpson as Queen.

 

 

 

 

Tony Grzebyk is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Manzanares.

Nationalist forces crossed the Manzanares.

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Marseilles

40 were killed in an explosion at a gunpowder factory near Marseilles

 

Image result for november 16, 1936The first fighter planes sent over by the USSR start flying above Madrid

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune November 16, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune November 16, 1936