Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• January 30th - Neutrality of Belgium and Netherlands guaranteed by Hitler
• April 1st - London County Council formation of a 'Green Belt' around London
• April 27th - Bombing of Spanish town of Guernica, 12 miles from Bilbao by 40 planes of the German Air Force. Over 1,000 people were killed and 1 year later Piccasso immortalised the tragedy on canvas.
• May 6th - The Giant German airship, Hindenburg, exploded over Lakenhurst, New jersey USA. 30 people died

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• May 12th - Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (The Queen Mother). The ceremony was broadcast to the 8 million people in the UK who had wireless sets. There was TV coverage outside the Abbey and the audience was measured as a few Thousand.

  

  

  

• May 28th - Neville Chamberlain became Prime Minister after Baldwin resigned
• June - the Hollywood star the Blonde Bombshell Jean Harlow died aged 26
• June - The German pocket Battleship bombarded the little town of Almeria in Spain claiming self defence
• June 3rd - The Duke of Windsor married Mrs Wallis Simpson (a divorced woman) in France
• July 11th - Death of US popular composer George Gershwin, aged 38
• August 14th - The Japanese bombed Shanghai in a new offensive against China
• August 28th - The great heatwave of New York, The Dunes of Kurische Nehrung , Lemurs, Spanish Civil War Reinosa occupied, Madrid's slow agony, Sino-Japan fighting in Tientsin, Shanghai, Tower parachuting has it's origins in Russia, Berlin 700th birthday, Popocatepetl Volcano, fullpage adverts= Whitbread Pale Ale- Golf Lesson, South Africa - Giraffes, Worthington- This England - Bournemouth from Branksomes, Black & White Whisky, Craven A cigarettes (colour)
• October 22nd - Duke and Duchess of Windsor met Hitler in Berlin
• December 13th - War - Nanking occupied by the Japanese forces amid much bloodshed, 20.000 civilian casualties
• Lord Halifax visits Hitler: attempt at appeasement
• Amelia Earhart is lost while flying across the Pacific
• The Golden Gate Bridge opened in San Francisco

January 2nd

• Xmas in Spain on the Civil war front
• First Giant Panda (Sun-Lin) caught alive by Mrs Harkness Jnr.
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January 9th

• full page adverts = Bovril, Worthington "This England" - Exmoor landscape, Johnnie Walker whisky

January 23rd

• Malaga under attack by Franco
• full page adverts = Black & White whisky - The Lifeguards (colour), Rolls Royce -Hooper, Duckhams Adcoids, Worthington "This England" - The Canal nr. Watford

March 6th

• The famous Dynamiteros
• Asturian miners aat Oviedo
• full page adverts = Douglas Stuart, Terraplane & Hudson Cars, Ford V8 '30', Hillman Hawk, Worthington "This England" - Chipping Camden Gloucester, Harrods - shirts to measure
• Col plate of Queen Mother (Queen Mary)

March 13th

• full page adverts = Terraplane cars, Austin Eighteen, Humber drophead coupe, Worthington "This England" - A Windmill at Chailey Sussex, Johnnie Walker whisky, Guinness A song of Guiinness, Lockheed Brakes (colour), Ford V8 (colour), Dunlop Safety (colour), Lanson Champagne

March 20th

• Full page adverts = Douglas stuart the Bookmaker, Rolls Royce - Hooper, Wakefield Castrol Oil, VAT 69 Whisky, Worthington "This England" - Lion Rock Dovedale, Harrods luggage

March 27th

• Madrid - The Spanish Civil war
• The Grand National at Aintree
• Crosses of Lithuania
• The 89th Oxford and Cambridge boat race
• The Fenland East Anglia Floods
• Full page advert = Worthington "This England" Winkworth Surrey

May 1st

• The new National Nautical Museum Greenwich - the opening
• Royal occasions 37 Pictures
• Bilbao - The Spanish Civil war
• The Coronation rehearsal at Windsor castle
• The centenary of John Constable
• Full page adverts = Alice through the Guinness Glass, Worthington "This England" Old Harry Nr Swanage, Elizabeth Arden, Czechoslovakia, Douglas stuart

May 22nd

No. 2613, Vol. 100 ,

• Coronation Naval Review; and the Royal Guildhall Visit. This issue is commemorating the Coronation of George VI and Queen Elizabeth and has many pages of great black & white photos and illustrations of the English Naval fleet including the "Hood", "Revenge", "Nelson", "Rodney", plus many more.
• There are also many foreign ships including the Battleship "New York" from the U.S. plus foreign ships from Soviet Union, Greece, Denmark, Japan, Sweden and many more.
• There is a 4-page pull-out of the Panorama of the Coronation Revue plus on the back 4-page pull-out is a disection illustration drawn by G. H. Davis of the recently commissioned Cruiser "Southhampton".
• There is also a 2-page article with photographs of the German airship "Hindenburg" exploding on May 6, 1937 at Lakehurst, New Jersey. This edition also has many photos and articles about the Royal Family and the Coronation.

August 21st

• Japanese forces in North China
• Spanish Civil War. America, Cuba, The Philippines
• Nabataean sculpture
• Cameroons West Africa
• Shanghai in Peril
• sand yachting in Egypt
• Full page adverts = Clubberwocky Guinness, Sporting and Dramatic News, Johnnie Walker "Cricket", Worthington "This England" Boddian Castle Sussex

September 11th

• Bombing of Shanghai by Japan
• Basking Sharks
• Guarding Spanish art during civil war
• Demolition of the Bruton Street corner
• A White cobra
• Suns halo seen for the first time
• Athens 2,000 years before Pericles
• Refugees escaping Shanghai
• Photographs of ribbon lightening
• Tientsin after occupation by Japanese troops
• The valley of 1,000 hills in Natal
• Nature photographs
• A diagramatic of Sir Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird
• Feminine coiffure in Angola
• Full page adverts = Guinness - In Marble Halls, Worthington - "This England" Salcombe Devon, VAT 69 whisky - Morse Code

September 18th

• Bilbao & Madrid by AR Meruvia
• Exploring the largest Khmer temple known
• War conditions in Shanghai
• Komodo Island
• Using spider's webs in astronomy
• Havoc in Hong Kong from a Typhoon
• The Aldridge detector
• Racing Cheetahs at Harringdon dog track
• Nazi Rally at Nuremberg (Nuremburg)
• London Salon of Photography
• Spanish Civil War stamps
• Full page Advert = South Africa, Giraffes
• Full page Advert = This England (Worthington) Bury Hill, Sussex
• Full page Advert = Johnnie Walker Whisky
• Full page Advert = Rolls Royce Cars / Hooper

September 25th

• Full page Advert = National Fur Company
• Shivas Temple - Grand Canyon
• Japanese troops in Shanghai
• Submarine development in the Mediterranean
• Germans ready to welcome Mussolini
• Cyclist Musicians in The Netherlands
• Siberian Art of the Scythian period
• The film "Victoria the Great" with Anna Neagle was awarded the Cup of Nations
• Berlin testing for Air Raids
• Richard II with John Gielgud and Michael Redgrave
• Nanking threatened with Air Raids
• Miniature landscapes by John McWhirter
• Full page Advert = Craven A cigarettes (Colour)
• Making of Iron Lungs for the treatment of Polio
• Hands by Frans Hals 16 pictures and the sitters
• Full page Advert = Harrods - In the Regency manner
• Full page Advert = This England (Worthington) Poole Harbour from Ballad Down, Dorset
• Full page Advert = Spink and Son
• Full page Advert = Black and White whisky

October 2nd

• An ivory head 30,000 years old found in Vestonice
• Miss Farida Zulficar to marry King Faruk of Egypt
• Hitler and Mussolini in the 1914 - 18 war
• Maya ruins
• Windmills of Surrey, Sussex and Kent
• Map of China and Japan
• The German Autobahn
• Mussolini's visit to Hitler
• Nanking and Canton
• full page adverts = Worthington "This England" -Nr Redmarley Gloucestershire, Schweppes - Pepys' diary, Italy for a holiday

November 6th

• the second cover page: In The Danger Zone of the International Settlement at Shanghai, where British soldiers have been killed by Shell Fire during the Sino-Japanese hostilities: A Typical British outpost near the North Station.
• 1. The Victoria Vogue: A Special Birmingham Art Exhibition in this Centenary year of Queen Victoria's Accession.
• 2. Haldane - 1856-1915. By Sir Frederick Maurice.
• 3. The Royal Holloway College's Jubilee: Higher Education for Women. 4 pages of picture.

4. Full page photo. A fleet as seen by bombers above the clouds: A remarkable photograph taken during U.S. Naval manoeuvres in the Pacific, showing the diminutive targets presented by the fighting ships.

5. The Question of the Mechanisation of the Royal Scots Greys: Incidents in their history, and uniforms worn. 2 pages of photos.

6. Revelations of Early Mesopotamian Culture. Sumerian art. Tell Agrab. Full page photo of a Sumerian Ass-Drawn Chariot.

7. World of Science. The giant panda.

8. Full page picture. Japan "blasts her way Forward: A Bomb bursting near Shanghai. Plus 2 more pages of Shangai.

9. The Lewins Provisioned by Parchute and rescued by Dinkas.

10. Coloured pictures. Painted pottery from Tell Agrab.

11. Double page coloured pictures. South Africa - A Bird-Lover's Paradise.

12. News by Photography: Matters Military, Medical and "Monstrous".

13. The Focke Helicopter with "Twin" Rotors.

14. The Maharaja of Bikaner's Jubilee.

15. The Italian Scene: Past and Present: Roman Occasions; and British reaction to "Orders from the House-Tops".

16. Ships - Their origin and development. Ancient ships and early shipbuilders.

17. Full page pictures. Ancient Ships: How Mankind Learnt to Build and Sail Them.

Much more.

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