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lashed by gale; at anchor in Dublin Bay
Repts to Comr Blanshard that he had been dropped from relief rolls for displaying Repub banner in home
cruiser Dragon stands by; crew taken off
The coldest weather so far this Fall arrived last night on a gale that sent the mercury steadily downward toward the first freezing weather of the season here.
Reaches Cherbourg after heaviest crossing
1936Neil Sheehan, American journalist and author (died 2021)[†]
Cornelius Mahoney Sheehan was an American journalist. As a reporter for The New York Times in 1971, Sheehan obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg. His series of articles revealed a secret United States Department of Defense history of the Vietnam War and led to a U.S. Supreme Court case, New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971), which invalidated the United States government's use of a restraining order to halt publication.
1936Mrs. Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.[†]
Edward VIII, later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year.