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January 22, 1936

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BLIZZARD AND FOG BESET ELLSWORTH IN PERILOUS FLIGHT; Explorer Recounts Struggle With Wind and Bitter Cold in the Antarctic. WAS AWED BY LONELINESS His Life and Companion's Hung on Reliability of Plane and Adequacy of Fuel. REACHED GOAL AFTER TREK Pair, Mounting a Ridge, Came Suddenly on Little America With Its Safe Shelter. ELLSWORTH TELLS OF FLIGHT'S PERILS

By Lincoln Ellsworth.copyright, 1936, By the New York Times Company and the North American Newspaper Alliance Inc.wireless To the New York Times

Announces award of D Livingstone Centenary Medal to L Ellsworth

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EDWARD VIII IS PROCLAIMED, RECEIVES FEALTY OF NATION; GEORGE'S FUNERAL TUESDAY; NEW KING GIVES A PLEDGE He Promises to Follow in Father's Footsteps, Serving All Classes. QUIET THRONG AT PALACE Pageantry to Mark the Public Announcement Today of His Accession to Throne. OATH TAKEN BY PARLIAMENT All Amusements Come to Halt in London as the Capital Mourns for King George. KING PROCLAIMED; RECEIVES FEALTY

By Charles A. Selden.special Cable To the New York Times

Edward proclaimed King by Privy Council; program for proclaiming accession

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Notable Births

Ong Teng Cheong

1936Ong Teng Cheong, Singaporean architect and politician, 5th President of Singapore (died 2002)[†]

Ong Teng Cheong was a Singaporean statesman who served as the fifth president of Singapore between 1993 and 1999.

Alan J. Heeger

1936Alan J. Heeger, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate[†]

Alan Jay Heeger is an American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry.