August 7th, 1939 (MONDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM:
Bank Holiday Monday in England and Wales.
GERMANY: Count Ciano asks to see Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler's Foreign Minister.
U-66, U-67, U-68, U-119, U-125, U-126, U-127, U-128, U-129, U-130, U-131, U-132, U-133, U-134, U-135, U-136 ordered.
U.S.A.:
02.27 BST 9.27 EST the Imperial Airways Short S.30 Empire Flying Boat, msn
S.881, registered G-AFCV, and named "Caribou" lands at Manhasset Bay completing the its
36 hour flight from England on the first British transatlantic mail service, fighting
against headwinds and blinding rainstorms the whole way.