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inaugurated; reads 1st message to Cong; message from Pres Roosevelt
mentioned as Repub candidate for Gov
After a visit of only sixteen hours, the giant air liner Hindenburg saluted New York and provided a thrill for many thousands of spectators last midnight as she roared over the city on her return trip to Germany on the second of her ten scheduled trips to this country this year.
40 persons barricade themselves in Bklyn ERB office; arrested; handbill signed by Amer Youth Protective League shows barricading was planned; 6 and 1 policeman injured
1936Günter Blobel, Polish-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)[†]
Günter Blobel was a Silesian German and American biologist and 1999 Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology for the discovery that proteins have intrinsic signals that govern their transport and localization in the cell.
1936Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.[†]
Sada Abe was a Japanese geisha and prostitute who murdered her lover, Kichizō Ishida , via strangulation on May 18, 1936, before cutting off his penis and testicles and carrying them around with her in her kimono. The story became a national sensation in Japan, acquiring mythic overtones; it has also been interpreted by artists, philosophers, novelists and filmmakers. Abe was released after serving five years in prison and went on to write an autobiography.