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The Parade Of The Strajerns, A Fascist, Paramilitary Organization Organizing Romanian Youths During Their Annual Celebration takes place in Bucharest
The British government announced plans to construct 38 new warships.
Italian troops occupied Degehabur
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“Midsummer Night’s Dream” was well worth the 40 cents. Lucy Mae walked back with the Klyngs, Alyce Claire and me. Didn’t see Harriet. Bought Ty-Ty a pink dress and hat yesterday. Seems I owe everyone in town.
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Austria sent troops to its German border, fearing invasion.
The first professional baseball game in Japan took place. Nagoya defeated Dai Tokyo 8-5.
Detroit Tigers star Hank Greenberg suffered a season-ending wrist 
fracture in a collision at first base with Jake Powell. Without their best hitter, the Tigers’ hopes of repeating as World Series champions were dashed
The funeral of Egyptian King Faud
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The King of Egypt Fuad. passes away. His son Farouk takes over the throne
By a vote of 62-35, the House of Lords passed a bill abolishing the special privilege of trial by peers in Great Brittain
Two young ladies strike a pose on their 1932 Ford. The picture taken April 28, 1936
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Mrs Temple and her daughter Shirley are on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine
An Italian plane dropped leaflets on Addis Ababa threatening to bomb and destroy the city if the advance on the Ethiopian capital met any resistance.
Hitler appointed Hermann Göring as Commissioner of Raw Materials and Foreign Currencies.
Joseph Bowers made the first escape attempt from Alcatraz Federal 
Penitentiary. A tower guard shot him and he fell from a chain link fence to his death.
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Harold and Jaime work today too. We talked until time for lunch. Ate at Watter’s then I had to meet Lenora at the Aunt Joyce’s. Left El Paso about 2 P.M. Got home at 8 – Ate supper and so to bed!
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Pennsy train #NL-1 derailed about 25 cars in downtown Plymouth, Indiana. Luckily, no one was injured.
Legislative elections were held in France, with run-off elections to be held the following week. The left-wing coalition known as the Popular Front did even better than expected and looked poised to take power.
The final Italian drive on the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, immortalized in Fascist 
propaganda as the March of the Iron Will, began.
The third annual Rose Sunday was observed by 20,000 people at the Morcom Rose Garden in Oakland, California to view the blooms and hear a concert.
KKK Members march in the Memorial Day Parade in Atlanta, Ga. The parade was held in memorial of the Confederate dead
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Off to El Paso with Harps and Lenora Shafer at 6 A.M. Arrive noon at Mrs. Dauner’s (Lenora’s Aunt) at 3717 Nations . Phone Jaime and Dit – Dit is at 1009 N. Stauton at the Mahlou Apts no 3. Seventh house the child has lived in since she 
married. Saw “Mr Deeds Goes to Town” in the P.M. with Jaime, Dit n Mary Jo. Jonathon arrived at 4:30. Went to Jaime’s place at Mrs. Andrews on Trowbridge. She has gorgeous flowers of every kind. Symphony with Stokowski, Leopold that night. Enjoyed it immensely and thrilled by the “new” music. Saw Rowaina but she didn’t see me. Saw Miss Anderson and her pal from Pecos who were in Mexico City last year. Paul Zink there too. Harold n’ Jaime joined us and Jonathon decided to stay at the Gateway. Lenora’s folks came to take her to Juarez and we went to the Spinning Wheel. Biggest drinks ever for a dime. Freddie and Sally were there too. To bed about 1 A.M.
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A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post
It’s Anzac Day in Australia – marking the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War.
The Battle of the Ogaden ended in Italian victory and Mussolini inaugurated the new planned town of Aprilia, Lazio.
Arsenal defeated Sheffield United 1-0 in the FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium.
The Arab Higher Committee was established.
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Intermediate party – Couldn’t find Addie to get the key to the kitchen. Had a good time –
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Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and a host of other notables attended the “Front Page Ball,in New York, New York
Adolf Hitler formally opened three NS-Ordensburgen (National Socialist Order Castles), elite military schools where future Nazi leaders were to be trained for three years.
The musical comedy-drama film Captain January starring Shirley Temple was released.
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Sent off review for Education before Verdun by Arnold Zweig. Enjoyed
the book. Bought tickets for Charlotte, Lorena and me for “Midsummer Night’s Dream” and finished a little blanket for Dit. Bid day! Plant to go to El Paso Sat. for Symphony and maybe Dit will have moved there by then. Mary Jo and Jonathon also plan to be there. Heard a rumor that Hinkle might be our next Supt! Ojale!
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Two miners are freed at 12:44 a.m. after being trapped by a cave-in for over 10 days in the Moose River Gold Mines. A third trapped man had died on the 7th day of rescue efforts. The event was broadcast by J. Frank Willis of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC) to over 650 radio stations throughout North America, and was picked up by the BBC and broadcast to Europe. It was the first live 24-hour radio coverage of a breaking news story in Canada.
Ice Jams continue to cause flooding problems in Maine, where dynamite is used to break them up. The rivers dropped several feet at once. In Idaho, the Boise River reaches flood stage
Roy Orbison, singer songwriter, is born in Vernon, Texas
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An estimated 400,000 students demonstrated nationwide in the second year of a student movement protesting global militarization. Here about 500 students walked out of class at Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Washington
Singer, and future Beach Boy, Glen Campbell was born in Arkansas 
Germany announced that Eckener Avenue in Berlin, named after the Zeppelin commander Hugo Eckener, would be renamed Adolf Hitler Street.
Porky Pig takes on an angry bird in Porky’s Poultry Plant
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Howard Hughes sitting in the Northop Gamma Racer in New York after setting a new Miami-New York record
Groundbreaking ceremonies for the San Jacinto Monument
Anti-Jewish riots by Arabs in Tel Aviv-Jaffa killed 11 people and injured 50.
On Budget Day in the United Kingdom, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain projected a surplus of nearly £3 million for the next year, but raised taxes to help pay for increased defence spending
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