Friday, July 13, 1934

Rained. We went over to the ice cream social at Marie's. It hailed. I went home with Gladys.

William Clark (August 1, 1770 – September 1, 1838)

An American explorer, soldier, Indian agent, and territorial governor,
Clark was a native of Virginia. He grew up in prestatehood Kentucky before later settling in what became the state of Missouri. He was also a planter and slaveholder.

Aong with Meriwether Lewis, Clark led the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1803 to 1806 across the Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific Ocean, and claimed the Pacific Northwest for the United States. Before the expedition, he served in a militia and the United States Army. Afterward, he served in a militia and as governor of the Missouri Territory. From 1822 until his death in 1838, he served as Superintendent of Indian Affairs.

Clark is buried in St. Louis, in the Bellefontaine Cemetery, where a 35-foot (11 m) gray granite obelisk was erected to mark his grave. The cemetery has been designated a National Historic Landmark.

Thursday, July 13, 1933

I didn't do much today. Pauline and Edda Mae were over. It sure was awfully hot.



July 13, 1933 was a truly historic day in the life of the resort town of Shediac,
New Brunswick, Canada. This was the day that Italian General Italo Balbo, Minister
of Aviation in Benito Mussolini’s cabinet, and his armada of twenty four Savoia Manchetti
S-55 flying boats alighted on Shediac Bay. They were on their way to the Chicago Century
of Progress Exhibition. This was the first massed flight of aircraft ever to cross the Atlantic.