Wednesday December 11, 1935

(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written 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:

An awards ceremony took place at Constitution Hall in Washington D.C., where the National Geographic Society held its annual awards ceremony to honor The Stratosphere – which paved the way for space exploration.

In 1935, this was the equivalent to stepping on the Moon.

U.S. Army Air Corps Captains Albert W. Stevens and Orville A. Anderson landed theirExplorer II High-altitude balloon on the ground near White Lake South Dakota, they were the first Scientific Observers to reach a distance of some 72,395 feet above the earth, the highest anyone had gone before.

Referring to the leaked details of the Hoare–Laval Pact, Ethiopia announced that it strongly rejected any prosopal that would “reward Italian aggression.”