(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written 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:
Opera singer Kirsten Flagstad is on the cover of Time Magazine.
The Italians first used chemical weapons in Ethiopia, spraying mustard gas and dropping bombs with mustard agent on Ethiopian soldiers and civilians.
In a Christmas radio message, Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg announced an extensive amnesty for political prisoners. It benefited both Socialists who fought in the Austrian Civil War and Nazis who participated in the July Putsch.
It was announced that Charles Lindbergh and his family had departed the United States for England due to kidnapping threats against their 3-year-old son
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