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.
I went to Educ. Meeting at El Paso High. Dr Leonard was very good! M.J. left for Van Horn. Dit goes to hospital at one P.M.
Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today
Louise Thaden becomes the first woman to win the prestigious coast
Francisco Largo Caballero became the 66th Prime Minister of Spain. An announcement explained that “because of the length of the civil war, the government believed it advisable to resign to make way for a government embracing all parties comprising the Popular Front.”
The Battle of Irún ended with the Nationalist capture of the city.
In Paris, 100,000 pro-Republican demonstrators held a march calling on the French government to lift its arms embargo against Spain