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Writes to Gov Hoffman urging him to reconsider refusal to surrender Parker Sr in Wendel case and sends opinion by Geoghan
Opens Rosedale Farm electrified dairy
Confers with Adm Standley on advisability of re-establishing Eur squadron of U S Navy
PARIS, July 22. -- In Northern Spain the success of the Rightists seems unquestionable. General Emilio Mola, in command at Burgos, who had expected to march toward Madrid today, was consolidating the successes obtained at San Sebastian and gathering more men to strengthen advancing columns.
1936Don Drysdale, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 1993)[†]
Donald Scott Drysdale, nicknamed "Big D", was an American professional baseball pitcher and broadcaster who played in Major League Baseball. He spent his entire 14-year career with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers. Known for being a fierce competitor, Drysdale won the Cy Young Award in 1962 and was a three-time World Series champion during his playing career.
1936Anthony Kennedy, American lawyer and jurist[†]
Anthony McLeod Kennedy is an American attorney and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1988 until his retirement in 2018. He was nominated to the court in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan, and sworn in on February 18, 1988. After the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor in 2006, he was considered the swing vote on many of the Roberts Court's 5–4 decisions.
1936Anna Abrikosova, Russian linguist (born 1882)[†]
Anna Ivanovna Abrikosova, later known as Mother Catherine of Siena, was a Russian Greek Catholic religious sister and literary translator, who died after more than a decade of solitary confinement as a prisoner of conscience in Joseph Stalin's concentration camps.
1936In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.[†]
Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory is situated on the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, to the south of the Pyrenees mountain range. Catalonia is administratively divided into four provinces or eight vegueries (regions), which are in turn divided into 43 comarques. The capital and largest city, Barcelona, is the second-most populous municipality in Spain and the fifth-most populous urban area in the European Union.