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1urania1
January 2, 1929
18-Year-Old California Girl Sets Mark For Longest Flight by Any of Her Sex
January 3, 1929, Thursday
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 2.--A new world's endurance flight record for a woman pilot was established today at the Metropolitain Airport by Miss Bobbie Trout, 18-year-old Los Angeles flier. She was in the air for 12 hours and 5 minutes, taking off at 6:31 A.M. and landing at 6:36 P.M.
P.S. Bobbers, check out the hairdo. Evelyn Trout earned the name Bobbie from her bob.
18-Year-Old California Girl Sets Mark For Longest Flight by Any of Her Sex
January 3, 1929, Thursday
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 2.--A new world's endurance flight record for a woman pilot was established today at the Metropolitain Airport by Miss Bobbie Trout, 18-year-old Los Angeles flier. She was in the air for 12 hours and 5 minutes, taking off at 6:31 A.M. and landing at 6:36 P.M.
P.S. Bobbers, check out the hairdo. Evelyn Trout earned the name Bobbie from her bob.
2rbhardy3rd
December 1928-March 1930: The first Byrd expedition to the Antarctic. Headline from January 3, 1929 New York Times:
BYRD FINDS NEW HARBOR DENTING BAY OF WHALES; RANGES BARRIER 20 MILES; INLET IS TWO MILES WIDE It Penetrates the West Side of the Bay for Seven Miles
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HORIZONS ARE DECEPTIVE 'Mountains' Become 'Haycocks'
Weather Is 15 to 20 Degrees Colder Than Arctic.
CAMP MADE IN ICE BOWL
Commander and Shore Party Toast New Year With Tea and Feast on Beans and Pork. Washes Dishes for New Year's. Barrier Rises on Three Sides. Byrd Finds New Antarctic Harbor Visibility Good in the Sun. Have "Put Something on the Maps." Has Highest Praise for Dogs.
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Meanwhile, on the literary front, the New York Times reported on January 3rd that Claude McKay and Nella Larson had been awarded Harmon Foundation awards for literary achievement.
BYRD FINDS NEW HARBOR DENTING BAY OF WHALES; RANGES BARRIER 20 MILES; INLET IS TWO MILES WIDE It Penetrates the West Side of the Bay for Seven Miles
.
HORIZONS ARE DECEPTIVE 'Mountains' Become 'Haycocks'
Weather Is 15 to 20 Degrees Colder Than Arctic.
CAMP MADE IN ICE BOWL
Commander and Shore Party Toast New Year With Tea and Feast on Beans and Pork. Washes Dishes for New Year's. Barrier Rises on Three Sides. Byrd Finds New Antarctic Harbor Visibility Good in the Sun. Have "Put Something on the Maps." Has Highest Praise for Dogs.
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Meanwhile, on the literary front, the New York Times reported on January 3rd that Claude McKay and Nella Larson had been awarded Harmon Foundation awards for literary achievement.
3citizenkelly
January 6, 1929:
Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest and diseased people.
I find that utterly amazing! I mean, 1929!!!!
Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin a her work amongst India's poorest and diseased people.
I find that utterly amazing! I mean, 1929!!!!
4juliette07
Me too - amazing - I had a lovely book of her life with meditations and thoughts Something Beautiful for God written by Malcolm Muggeridge when I was at university but it seems to have got lost somewhere along the way. She was born in 1910 so would have only been 19 when she arrived in Calcutta. Mmmm - I have just looked up the Wikipedia article and it suggests that 1929 was when she arrived in India and began her noviatiate in Darjeeling.
