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November 26, 1936

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Headlines from November 26, 1936

LOYALISTS ROUTED IN SUDDEN ATTACK ON INSURGENT REAR; They Shell Talavera Base, but Rebel Planes Drive Them Off -- Deaths Are Put at 1,000. MADRID IS BOMBED AGAIN Many Wounded in Air Raid as British Observers Arrive -- Foreign Fighters Hold Foe. NAZI SPY NET IS CHARGED Cartagena Police Announce the Discovery of Propaganda Ring -- Berlin Denies Accusation.

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Govt forces repulsed in surprise attack on Talavera de la Reina; comment by cameraman-reporter; Insurgent air raid over Madrid; Loyalists push drive in Univ City, foreign brigade prevents Rebel rescue of comrades besieged in hosp; Zaralejo claimed by govt; police at Cartagena semi-officially rept discovery of Nazi espionage propaganda organization

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Notable Births

Margaret Boden

1936Margaret Boden, English computer scientist and psychologist[†]

Margaret Ann Boden was a British academic. She was a research professor of cognitive science in the department of informatics at the University of Sussex, where her work embraced the fields of artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, and cognitive and computer science.

Notable Deaths

Şükrü Naili Gökberk

1936Şükrü Naili Gökberk, Turkish general (born 1876)[†]

Şükrü Naili Gökberk was an officer of the Ottoman Army during World War I, reaching the rank of miralay on 1 September 1917; and of the Turkish Army during the Turkish War of Independence, reaching the rank of mirliva on 31 August 1922. He was promoted to the rank of ferik on 30 August 1926.