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Turn 3 peeps! Oct to december 1936

Events:

Wars:

Italian-Ethiopian war 

Spanish civil war (oops)

-Francisco Franco was officially invested with the title of Chief of State in the throne room at Burgos. He made a short and simple speech vowing to "try to raise Spain to the place that corresponds to her history and her rank in earlier times."[1]

Misc:


 * Belgian unification?

- A referendum was given to the belgian peoples if the belgians prefered unification or not, only 32% rejects unification, so good on you Matt.


 * The Romanian oil strike

in Romania, a decrease in wages causes the people to go on a strike, it was on a large scale that king Carol was forced to abdicate, the people set up a communist government.


 * Creation of the Odessa Pact
 * In Valencia, the Spanish Cortes met for the first time since July 18 and passed a law granting home rule to the Basque Country.[2]
 * Al Smith gave a nationally broadcast address in which he broke from the Democrats and endorsed Alf Landon for President of the United States.[3]
 * Juan Demóstenes Arosemena became President of Panama.
 * Born: Duncan Edwards, footballer, in Dudley, Worcestershire, England (d. 1958)