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Saturday July 18, 1936

diary 2The 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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Spanish women defending the Republic in the Siege of the Alcázar in Toledo, 1936. Wikimedia Commons/Google Cultural Institute

The Spanish Civil War begins as a revolt by right-wing Spanish military officers in Spanish Morocco and spreads to mainland Spain.

The Spanish government announced on the radio that the uprising had been contained. The Spanish uprising spread to Seville. In Madrid, the Siege of Cuartel de la Montaña began.

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Arthur Greiser

The Free City of Danzig suspended its constitution. Senate President Arthur Greiser ordered the move to crush opposition to the Nazi-controlled government.

The Montreux Convention

At the Montreaux Conference, the signatories of the Treaty of Lausanne agreed to grant Turkey the right to remilitarize the Dardanelles. The Russian navy was granted the right to free passage through the straits during peacetime, but during wartime all belligerents would be prohibited from using the straits unless acting for the League of Nations or under a regional pact signed with Turkey

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A 16 pound baby boy is born in Minnesota.

Friday July 17, 1936

diary 2The 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

The mercury hit triple digits for the 12th consecutive day at Chicago Midway Airport and Hartington, Nebraska set an all time record of 118 degrees.

 

 

 

 

 

Spanish coup of July 1936: Francisco Franco and other high-ranking officers in the Spanish Army launched a coup against the Second Spanish Republic. The conspirators in the Army of Africa moved to seize control of Spanish Morocco.

Military uprising in Melilla: the Spanish rebels seized the radio station in Melilla and proclaimed martial law. The Spanish Civil War had begun.

Helen Clevenger was discovered murdered in room 224 of the Battery Park Hotel . She had been savagely beaten her face slashed and she had been shot.  The New York City hotel is said to be haunted ever since. On stormy nights Helen is seen wandering the halls of the old hotel.

 

The French Chamber of Deputies voted 484-85 to nationalize the munitions industry

 

Chicago Daily Tribune July 17, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune July 17, 1936

Tuesday April 14, 1936

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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.

Velma came up and we sewed.  I on Dit’s little blue flannel blanket.  Pete came up later and chatted.  Saw Ruth Cobeau – She is terribly thin but the leg  is almost healed.   Her Scarlet Fever has given her a bad time bit in her wheelchair in the sunshine she is cheerful as ever. Letters from home, Dit and Jonathon already this week – The sky is falling

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

President F.D. Roosevelt opens the baseball season at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C

FDR Library Photograph Collection. NPx 74-20:496

 

The Battle of the Ogaden began on the southern front of the Abyssinian War.

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During a parade celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Second Spanish Republic in Madrid, several small bombs exploded under the presidential reviewing stand. The explosions caused no injuries but several people were trampled in the panic that ensued. Police blamed the attack on fascists.

A production of William Shakespeare‘s Macbeth, commonly nicknamed Voodoo Macbeth and directed by Orson Welles, premiered at the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem

 

Record turnout is expected in Illinois and Nebraska as voters head to the polls to vote in primary elections. Meanwhile, the Alaska G.O.P can not make a decision.

Chicago Daily Tribune April 14, 1936 pg 2
Chicago Daily Tribune April 14, 1936 pg 2
Chicago Daily Tribune April 14, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune April 14, 1936