--- description: Born. To Don Juan Carlos, Prince of Asturias, 23, youngest living son of Spain's onetime King Alfonso XIII; and Princess Maria Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily, 25; an 8-lb. daughter; in Cannes,... title: Milestones, Aug. 10, 1936 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Milestones, Aug. 10, 1936 by [TIME](/author/time/) Aug 10, 1936 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Aug 10, 1936 4:00 AM CUT Born. To Don Juan Carlos, Prince of Asturias, 23, youngest living son of Spain’s onetime King Alfonso XIII; and Princess Maria Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily, 25; an 8-lb. daughter; in Cannes, France. Name: Maria del Pilar. Married. Francesca Lindenthal, daughter of the late famed Austrian-born Bridge Builder Gustav Lindenthal (Hell Gate, Manhattan, Queensboro); and Engineer Hans Renz, of Stockholm, Sweden; in Metuchen, N. J. Marriage Revealed. Thomas D. Schall Jr., son of Minnesota’s late U. S. Senator (1925-35) Thomas David Schall; and Mrs. Martha Lillian Coupal, 45, widow of onetime (1924-29) White House Physician Colonel James Francis Coupal; in Carmody, Vt. Died. Louis William (“Bridgie”) Webber, 59, Manhattan gambler who turned State’s evidence in 1912 to convict Manhattan Police Lieut. Charles Becker and four gunmen—”Lefty” Louis Rosenberg, Harry (“Gyp the Blood”) Horowitz, “Whitey” Lewis and “Dago” Frank Cirofici—of murdering Gambler Herman Rosenthal; of peritonitis; on the 21st anniversaryof Becker’s electrocution; in Passaic, N. J., where for 22 years he had managed a paper-box factory. Died. Dr. William McDonald, 63, neurologist who treated Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1925-26) for infantile paralysis at his farm in North Marion, Mass.; after long illness; in Marion. Under his direction Mr. Roosevelt learned to walk on a specially constructed gangplank by supporting himself on its handrails. Died. Louis Blériot, 64, first man to fly the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine; of heart disease; in Paris. In 1909, in a crude monoplane with a 28-h. p. motor, short, mustachioed Louis Blériot lumbered up from Les Barragues, buzzed across to Dover some 250 ft. above the water at an average speed of 45 m. p. h., won a $5,000 prize. Same year, after a serious crackup, he stopped flying, went into airplane manufacture. In 1927, when Lindbergh made the first solo flight from New York to Paris, Pioneer Blériot rushed up, kissed him on both cheeks. Said Pilot Lindbergh: “I shall always regard you as my master.” Died. Beatty S. Balestier, 69, Vermont farmer, brother-in-law of the late Rudyard Kipling; in Brattleboro, Vt. After a roadside quarrel over money in 1896, Poet Kipling had him arrested for threatening his life, put under $400 peace bond. Shortly thereafter Kipling closed his Vermont estate for good, returned to England. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6761635/milestones-aug-10-1936/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6761635/milestones-aug-10-1936/"},"headline":"Milestones, Aug. 10, 1936","datePublished":"1936-08-10T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-28T17:36:26.864Z","description":"Born. To Don Juan Carlos, Prince of Asturias, 23, youngest living son of Spain's onetime King Alfonso XIII; and Princess Maria Mercedes of Bourbon-Sicily, 25; an 8-lb. daughter; in Cannes,...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6761635/milestones-aug-10-1936/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6761635/milestones-aug-10-1936/","name":"Milestones, Aug. 10, 1936"}}]}] ```