Daily Archives: August 15, 2016

Saturday August 15, 1936

diary 2The 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

No post today

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

A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker magazine

The Battle of Almendrajelo ended in a Nationalist victory followed by a massacre. The Nationalists killed about 1,000 civilians.

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The Earl Baldwin of Bewdley

Stanley Baldwin announced a British embargo of arms to Spain.

Father Coughlin: Radio Priest, Depression Demagogue

Father Charles Coughlin endorsed third-party candidate William Lemke

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 11 of the 1936 Olympic Games

 

Medal summary

Men’s events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle
details
Ferenc Csik
 Hungary
Masanori Yusa
 Japan
Shigeo Arai
 Japan
400 m freestyle
details
Jack Medica
 United States
Shunpei Uto
 Japan
Shozo Makino
 Japan
1500 m freestyle
details
Noboru Terada
 Japan
Jack Medica
 United States
Shunpei Uto
 Japan
100 m backstroke
details
Adolph Kiefer
 United States
Al Vande Weghe
 United States
Masaji Kiyokawa
 Japan
200 m breaststroke
details
Tetsuo Hamuro
 Japan
Erwin Sietas
 Germany
Reizo Koike
 Japan
4×200 m freestyle relay
details
 Japan (JPN)
Shigeo Arai
Shigeo Sugiura
Masaharu Taguchi
Masanori Yusa
 United States (USA)
Ralph Flanagan
John Macionis
Jack Medica
Paul Wolf
 Hungary (HUN)
Oszkár Abay-Nemes
Ferenc Csik
Ödön Gróf
Árpád Lengyel

Women’s events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle
details
Rie Mastenbroek
 Netherlands
Jeannette Campbell
 Argentina
Gisela Arendt
 Germany
400 m freestyle
details
Rie Mastenbroek
 Netherlands
Ragnhild Hveger
 Denmark
Lenore Wingard
 United States
100 m backstroke
details
Nida Senff
 Netherlands
Rie Mastenbroek
 Netherlands
Alice Bridges
 United States
200 m breaststroke
details
Hideko Maehata
 Japan
Martha Genenger
 Germany
Inge Sørensen
 Denmark
4×100 m freestyle relay
details
 Netherlands (NED)
Rie Mastenbroek
Willy den Ouden
Jopie Selbach
Tini Wagner
 Germany (GER)
Gisela Arendt
Ruth Halbsguth
Leni Lohmar
Ingeborg Schmitz
 United States (USA)
Mavis Freeman
Bernice Lapp
Olive McKean
Katherine Rawls

Italy won gold in football..

Hitler Reacts to Kiss from Excited American Woman

 

The NOAA ship Fathomer aground on a coral reef in the Philippines after the typhoon of August 15, 1936.
The NOAA ship Fathomer aground on a coral reef in the Philippines after the typhoon of August 15.
Chicago Daily Tribune August 15, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune August 15, 1936