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The San Francisco Golden Gate bridge is near completion but today a stripping platform broke away from the structure. 10 died 2 survived.
Residents of the Capitol city try out their skis in Rock Creek Park after the heaviest snow of the year, Washington DC.
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To celebrate the birth of Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, Mussolini proclaimed a general amnesty cancelling or reducing prison sentences for many types of offences.
American chemist Wallace Carothers received a patent for nylon
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An underground explosion in a coal mine in Wonthaggi, Australia killed thirteen men.
11 were reported dead in flooding around southern Los Angeles
His eminence Dennis Joseph Dougherty is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine
Victims of the Ohio River Flood line up for food.
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A Nationalist warship shelled the Republican capital of Valencia for 30 minutes until counterfire from shore batteries forced its retreat.
Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg indicated that a referendum on the question of restoring the Habsburg Monarchy might be held
St Pauls Perrish in Brookeville Center, Ct. burned to the ground.
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A movie theater fire in Andong, China killed 685 people.
The Boston Redskins NFL team moved to Washington, D.C. and became the Washington Redskins.
Felix Kaspar of Austria won the men’s competition of the World Figure Skating Championships in Vienna.
A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker magazine
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Treated the kids to milk-nickles. Received ten or so Valentines! Finished Sacha Guitry’s If Memory Serves. from Doubleday Doran, Garden City N.Y. really belongs to Capt A.J. Hart. Borrowed it from Helen Snipes. Should like to own it. Very keen in comments on characters, interesting stories and a very easy-flowing style.
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The International Brigades halted the Nationalist advance at Jarama.
The National Football League admitted the Cleveland Rams.
The musical film When You’re in Love starring Grace Moore and Cary Grant was released.
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The Flint sit-down strike ended when General Motors agreed to recognize the United Auto Workers.
Joachim von Ribbentrop formally presented the British Foreign Office with a demand for the return of Germany’s colonies.
An issue of the British weekly news magazine Cavalcade was banned for running an article referring to rumors of the king having suffered an attack of epilepsy.
Aviator Amelia Earhart announced she would attempt to circumnavigate the globe as close to the equator as possible
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A German appeals court ruled that children who failed to live up to the mental and physical standards of Nazi education could be taken away from their families and placed in state-run homes
Hollywood stars party at the The Coconut Grove
Kansas
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The Ohio River is now below flood stage but the clean-up has just begin –
A United Air Lines passenger plane crashed into San Francisco Bay with the loss of all 11 people aboard. It was the first aviation accident to involve a Douglas DC-3
This political cartoon was featured in the Brooklyn Citizen. 
Mardi Gras underway in New Orleans
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The Battle of Málaga ended in a decisive Nationalist victory with the capture of the city. The Málaga–Almería road massacre ensued.
The Senate Judiciary Committee meets to discuss the President’s Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937
John Pelly is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine
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