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November 7, 1936

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Headlines from November 7, 1936

LEFT GOVERNMENT ABANDONS MADRID

By the Associated Press

GETAFE, Spain, Nov. 6. -- It is reliably reported here that 10,000 Civil Guards are being brought up to police Madrid after its capture. Whatever cleaning up is needed, including street fighting, after the Insurgents' entry, will probably be Continued on Page Six

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Notable Births

Al Attles

1936Al Attles, American basketball player and coach (died 2024)[†]

Alvin Austin Attles Jr. was an American professional basketball player, coach, and executive who spent his entire career with the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed the "Destroyer", he played the point guard position.

Gwyneth Jones (soprano)

1936Gwyneth Jones, Welsh soprano[†]

Dame Gwyneth Jones is a Welsh dramatic soprano, widely regarded as one of the greatest Wagnerian sopranos of the second half of the 20th century. The possessor of a large-scaled, powerful dramatic soprano voice, joined to a vivid stage presence and finely developed acting ability, Jones enjoyed an extensive international career that took her to all the world's major opera houses. Her talent was cultivated through a long relationship with the Bayreuther Festspiele, through which she developed a more human, vulnerable, and womanly image for Richard Wagner's main female characters. She is best known for her rendition of Brünnhilde in the 1976 Jahrhundertring at Bayreuth, staged to commemorate the theater's centenary anniversary.

Historical Events

Spanish Civil War

1936Spanish Civil War: The Madrid Defense Council is formed to coordinate the Defense of Madrid against nationalist forces.[†]

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.