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Lou Gehrig is presented with a scroll commemorating his consecutive game record by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia
A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post
Nazi authorities ordered all German churches to eliminate the word “Hallelujah” from prayers because it was “Hebrew and alien
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Many die on the Nile when a pleasure boat and a cargo ship collided.
A tropical hurricane struck Cape Hatteras along the east coast of the United States, doing considerable damage.
The USS Fanning was launched.
Speech at the Harvard Tercentenary by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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First letter from Mary Jo in Greencastle and she is properly thrilled! So glad!
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News reporters and cameramen covering the Salinas lettuce workers’ strike have equipped themselves with gas masks after suffering the effects of tear gas the previous day.
The first issue of the Barcelona newspaper Juventud Comunista (Communist Youth) was published
Construction continues to remove bench seating in Yankee stadium.
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A lettuce strike in Salinas, California leeds to fights when lettuce truck convoys were escorted through town from the fields to the shipping sheds
António de Oliveira Salazar ordered the creation of the Portuguese Legion.
The Nationalists captured Ronda
The South Schenectady Fire Department was formed
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A.A.U.W. Meeting at Mess Feather’s. Saw her woven linens – that is a wonderful hobby. The meeting was my last I think. Nothing ever gets done.
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Samuel of Speen, from the Shetland Island off Scotland, finally met up with his new mistress, Shirley Temple, after a 3,000-mile trip by water and a 3,000-mile trip across the United States. The pony a gift from a movie producer.
The German news agency published a message from Spanish Nationalist leader Miguel Cabanellas which stated: “The Spanish nation never will forget the friendship and moral support extended by Germany. Your leader and nation keep watch against bolshevism in the east. We will do the same in the west, where it is no less important in this decisive hour in European history
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Saw “Texas Rangers” but the best part of the program was the short 
showing 3rd dimensions. We looked through the colored glasses called something. We got in after it had started.
A man threw a baseball which must have hit the head of the man in front of me! And another fellow squirted water over all the audience.
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The Siege of Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Cabeza began.
On the final day of the Nuremberg Rally, Hitler watched a flypast of 371 aircraft and gave a final speech assailing democracy as a “channel through which bolshevism spreads poison.”
George McMahon, the man who aimed a revolver at King Edward VIII in July, was sentenced to 12 months hard labour for “intent to alarm the king
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Letter from Dit – everything O.K. Saw everyone at church
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17-year old Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians struck out 17 Philadelphia Athletics, setting a new single-game American League record and tying the major league record set by Dizzy Dean in 1933
Adolf Hitler reviewed 107,000 men of the SA and SS in Nuremberg.
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Got $75.00 from the bank and sent 3 checks to Mary Jo for $44, $6 and 
$20 – Got Moscow Skies by Maurice Hindus to review.
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The Nationalists captured San Sebastián to win complete control of the Basque region.
The Battle of Majorca ended in Nationalist victory. The Italian occupation of Majorca began.
A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker magazine
Fred Perry of the United Kingdom beat Don Budge in the men’s singles final of the U.S. National Championships. Perry was the first foreigner to ever win the tennis championship.
Rose Coyle of Philadelphia won the 10th Miss America pageant.
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Ate tacos for supper at Martens. Played Tripoli afterwards, nine of us.
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As part of ceremonies at the World Power Conference, President Roosevelt pressed a golden key in Washington, D.C. to put a small 3,500 horsepower generator into service for Boulder Dam and Boulder City, Nevada.
Due to the belief that sunlight promoted health, students on Madison Street in Albany New York went to school in a greenhouse.
The Supreme Electoral Council, the predecessor of the National Electoral Council of Venezuela, was founded.
The musical play Careless Rapture by Ivor Novello and Christopher Hassall premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London
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President Roosevelt heads to Charlotte.
A massive landslide in the Himalayas wiped out seven villages and left hundreds reported dead.
Nationalist artillery resumed pounding San Sebastián after a 48-hour unofficial truce.
The British Trades Union Congress voted in favour of a policy of neutrality in the Spanish Civil War, due to fear that intervention in the conflict would spark a larger war in Europe.
Germany launched a propaganda campaign against Czechoslovakia, accusing the country of harbouring Soviet aircraft and providing airfields to the Soviet air force.
The first official Speedway World Championship motorcycle race was held at Wembley Stadium in London, won by Lionel Van Praag of Australia.
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