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July 22, 1936

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Five Provinces in North Taken; FAMOUS SPANISH RESORT IN HANDS OF REBELS, AND SOME OF THE CAPITAL'S DEFENDERS REBELS CAPTURE NORTHERN SPAIN

By Unknown Author

repts from Hendaye and other French frontier stations; Barcelona outbreaks renewed, San Sebastian taken by rebels; northern provinces of Saragossa, Navarra, Burgos, Valladolid and Guipuzcoa in hands of rebels; refugees in France give details; insurgents under Mola reptd 35 mi from Madrid; revolt chieftains said to have mobilized Basque mountaineers; provinces of Huesca and Alava invaded by rebels

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Notable Births

1936Don Patterson, American organist (died 1988)[โ€ ]

Don Patterson was an American jazz organist.

1936Harold Rhodes, English cricketer[โ€ ]

Harold James Rhodes is an English former international cricketer who played two Test matches for England in 1959. He played domestically for Derbyshire between 1953 and 1975 and played one day matches for Nottinghamshire between 1970 and 1973.

1936Geraldine Claudette Darden, American mathematician[โ€ ]

Geraldine Claudette Darden is an American mathematician. She was the fourteenth African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics.

Historical Events

Spanish Civil War

1936Spanish Civil War: The Popular Executive Committee of Valencia takes power in the Valencian Community.[โ€ ]

The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic and included socialists, anarchists, communists, and separatists. The opposing Nationalists who established the Spanish State were an alliance of fascist Falangists, monarchists, conservatives, and traditionalists supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and led by a military junta among whom General Francisco Franco quickly achieved a preponderant role. Due to the international political climate at the time, the war was variously viewed as class struggle, a religious struggle, or a struggle between dictatorship and republican democracy, between revolution and counterrevolution, or between fascism and communism. The Nationalists won the war, which ended in early 1939, and ruled Spain until Franco's death in November 1975.