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The upper Ohio River Valley begins to mop-up.
The Dimitrov Battalion joined the XV International Brigade in Spain.
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The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937 continues as the Associated Press reported a total of 333 known deaths across eight U.S. states from the recent flooding. 225 of the deaths were in Kentucky.
A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post
The Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center ended. 13 of the 17 defendants were sentenced to execution by firing squad.
Its President Roosevelt’s birthday
Hitler speaks on the fourth anniversary of the Nazi takeover of power. It is always the occasion for a major Hitler speech. Here he formally renounced Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles and banned Germans from accepting Nobel Prizes
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The Flood edition of newspaper carries names of refugees, giving home address and current locations. Some stores re-open and some power is restored in Louisville, Ky.
The Japanese aircraft carrier Sōryū entered service.
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The drama film The Good Earth, based on the novel of the same name by Pearl S. Buck, premiered in Los Angeles
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In a National Hockey League game between the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Black Hawks, Canadiens star Howie Morenz caught his skate in the boards and broke four bones in his leg. Morenz was hospitalized and would die five weeks later from a blood clot
The Great Ohio River Flood continues the river crested in Huntington nearly 20 feet above flood stage.
Tents are set up for those fleeing the flood waters
Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs is in production.
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Letter from Carsey saying he has the flu and won’t be able to come next Saturday – Darn! I surely hope it isn’t serious but I am disappointed in his not being able to come – At the meeting tonight Mr. Deaton asked me to be a chairman . Report card day. My room averages were low!
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The great Ohio River Flood of 1937 continues the river gauge reached 57 feet (17 m) in the Louisville area, setting a new record. Seventy percent of the city was under water at that time
The 1935 salaries of Hollywood movie stars were made public as part of a Congressional study on salaries paid by corporations. Greta Garbo topped the list at $332,500 ($5,824,987.41 in 2016 with inflation,) followed by Wallace Beery ($278,749), Joan Crawford ($241,403), William Powell ($238,750) and Clark Gable ($211,553).
The Duke of Norfolk married Lavinia Mary Strutt at Brompton Oratory in London. 5,000 women jostled each other and fought police outside the venue in an effort to get a glimpse of the proceedings
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The Ohio River reached a crest of 79.99 feet. Most of the region was without electricity.
The Japanese military declined to accept General Kazushige Ugaki as Prime Minister by refusing to supply a war minister. Ugaki was therefore unable to form a cabinet.
The Baron Edouard De Rothschild Placed The First Stone Of The Pavilion Of The Land Of Israel Within The Building Devoted To Palestine At The Universal Exhibition In Paris.
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The soap opera Guiding Light premiered on NBC Radio. It would make the jump to television in 1952 and become the longest-running soap opera in history by the time of its cancellation in 2009.
The rains continue in Ohio
Leon Trotsky is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine
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Carsey came about 12 – Had lunch at Jewett’s walked around by 
Junior High and to the church. Played the organ for a while. Went to Kiplings for a cup of coffee. Carsey was cold – had left his coat at the house. On the way home we stopped at the Yucca to see “Gold diggers of 1937” Fair but rather funny. He had to leave immediately after the show! Surely was a nice visit-
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The great Ohio River Flood of 1937 continues as does the rain, this is Front Street in Marietta, Ohio – and a four mile area of Cincinnati burns
It’s the very first day of the first Daytona Bike week with the inaugural running of the Daytona 200.
Bulgaria and Yugoslavia signed a treaty of friendship
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The second Moscow Trial began. 17 lesser communist leaders known as the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center were charged with an anti-Stalin conspiracy.
The entire Japanese cabinet resigned due to a split between military leaders and anti-military political parties in the National Diet who thought that the army had too much influence over the government
Italian dictator Benito MUSSOLINI, bare-chested, gets ready to ski with his son Romano
A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker Magazine
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Exams are over – Went to see Pete and Velma and get the waffle iron. Pete is looking so much better! We went to see “One in a Million” with the Olympic champion Sonja Henie. She skates and dances 
beautifully. Lorene and I stayed to see it twice. I could easily go again! A letter from Carsey says he will be here the week-end of the 29th but he cant make it here this week-end to see the picture – Nevertheless I’ve had a silly feeling ever since the letter came that he would be here. Even though he has an appointment with some truckers on Saturday! How foolish of me – and my mind tells me he won’t be here! Instead he called me about 8 and said he’d be over about noon tomorrow!!!
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41,000 people around Cincinnati were left homeless by the Ohio River flood. The business district of Pittsburgh and part of Louisville, Kentucky were also flooded out.
Walt Disney received the National Distinguished Service Award of the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce at a banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
Popeye washes windows
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