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Police Inspector F McCahill bars Amer Labor party rally; Repubs, Socialist party and others comment
Rebels take Navalcarnero in launching of general offensive, Loyalists retreat to Mostoles; fall of Escorial imminent; Rebels advance 22 mi from Siguenza; Loyalists rept Rebels in Oviedo again cut off from main body at Trubia by Asturian miners; insurgent forces transported from Ceuta to Algeciras
F Kuhn Jr repts govt ready to buy planes from Amer factories to speed rearmament program; Lord Nuffield, auto mfr, int on refusal to build engines for Air Ministry
Charges widespread fraudulent registration, N Y C
1936John Blashford-Snell, English soldier, author, and explorer[†]
Colonel John Nicholas Blashford-Snell is a former British Army officer, explorer and author. He founded Operation Raleigh and the Scientific Exploration Society.
1936Peter Cook, English architect and academic[†]
Sir Peter Cook is an English architect, lecturer and writer on architectural subjects. He was a founder of Archigram, and was knighted in 2007 by Elizabeth II for his services to architecture and teaching. He is also a Royal Academician and a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic. His achievements with Archigram were recognised by the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2004, when the group was awarded the Royal Gold Medal.
1936Jovan Pavlović, Serbian metropolitan (died 2014)[†]
Jovan Pavlović was a Serbian Orthodox prelate who was the metropolitan bishop of Zagreb and Ljubljana of the Serbian Orthodox Church from 1982 until his death in 2014. He was one of the most prominent individuals in Serbian community in Croatia during his lifetime.
1936Bobby Seale, American political activist and author, co-founder of the Black Panther Party[†]
Robert George Seale is an African American revolutionary, political activist and author. Seale is widely known for co-founding the Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization the Black Panther Party (BPP) with fellow activist Huey P. Newton. Founded as the "Black Panther Party for Self-Defense", the Party's main practice was monitoring police activities and challenging police brutality in black communities, first in Oakland, California, and later in cities throughout the United States.
1936Dod Orsborne, captain of the Girl Pat is convicted of its theft and imprisoned, having caused a media sensation when it went missing.[†]
George Black Orsborne, also known as Dod Orsborne, was a Grimsby trawler captain and seafarer, who acquired notoriety in 1936 when he took the trawler Girl Pat on an unauthorised voyage across the Atlantic. The escapade attracted much press attention, and Orsborne and his crew were briefly hailed as heroes. Orsborne was tried and imprisoned for the theft of the trawler; subsequently he claimed that the voyage had been part of an undercover operation organised by British Naval Intelligence.