Arthur Ignatius McNally was an American professional football executive who was director of officiating for the National Football League (NFL) from 1968 to 1991. Before becoming director of officiating—succeeding Mark Duncan, who had held the position from 1964 to 1968—McNally served as a field judge and referee in the NFL for nine years from 1959 to 1967. During a 22-year span, he officiated over 3,000 football, baseball, and basketball games, which included one year in the National Basketball Association (NBA). In 2022, McNally became the first NFL game official to be enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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1925Erik Satie, French pianist and composer (born 1866)^[†]

Eric Alfred Leslie Satie, better known as Erik Satie, was a French composer and pianist. The son of a French father and a British mother, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire but was undistinguished and did not obtain a diploma. In the 1880s he worked as a pianist in café-cabarets in Montmartre, Paris, and began composing works, mostly for solo piano, such as his Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes. He also wrote music for a Rosicrucian sect to which he was briefly attached.

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Vincent Astor to Build Stores in Hotel St. Regis And Make Lofts of Adjoining House in 5th Av.

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Charges Fireman Cut Off Town's Alarm So It Would Not Disturb His Slumbers

GOVERNORS DIVIDE OVER FEDERAL AID; RITCHIE ASSAILS IT; He Calls "Fifty-Fifty" Plan for Highways Unfair, Showing New York Hardest Hit. 18 STATES MAKE UP FOR 30 Heads of Smaller States Declare Aid Necessary -- Executives Will Fly on Shenandoah. GOVERNORS DIVIDE OVER FEDERAL AID

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