Daily Archives: November 3, 2016

Tuesday November 3, 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.

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

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Franklin Roosevelt is re-elected in a Landslide

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Times Square after FDR was re-elected

 

 

The Miyagi earthquake struck Japan.

Several cantons in Switzerland banned the Communist Party.

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Kurt Schuschnigg

Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg performed a cabinet reshuffle that ousted all three former members of the Heimwehr.

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Edward VIII opened Parliament with a speech from the throne.

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The first episode of Starlight was broadcast on BBC Television.

 

Chicago Daily Tribune November 3, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune November 3, 1936

Monday November 2, 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.

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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!

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

In large rounded sans-serif font, the lower-case word "one" is written in white on a red background. To the left in smaller letters, the letters "BBC" in solid white squares is written; the tops of the two words are aligned.

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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.

Coat of arms of BruneteNationalists captured Brunete

 

 

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

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Chicago Daily Tribune November 2, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune November 2, 1936