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.

 

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

The floods reach Ohio and a freeze takes root in California

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The worst plane crash in Mexican aviation history kills 14 people. Ten of the dead were European tourists, among them Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe and his wife.

 

Rutgers University Press was founded.

 

 

 

A group of engine mechanics gather on the access catwalk for engine car #3 to watch as the Hindenburg is led from her hangar

 

 

 

 

 

USS Drayton DD 366 Launched for the first time. It was  Commissioned: September 1 1936