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PULHAM, England, April 8. -- The British Air Ministry's airdrome at this little Norfolk village has made all arrangements for the visit of Amundsen's airship, the Norge, on its way to Spitzbergen and the North Pole.
Union Oil Co tank farm burns; 2 killed, 1 hurt in explosion; damage put at $15,000,000
Silvanus (tanker) collides with tanker Thos M Wheeler in Mississippi River; explosion; 25 reported missing
Dr A Hrdlicka awarded Huxley Memorial medal for research by Royal Anthropological Inst
Rockefeller makes public his terms; Prof Breasted describes proposed museum; leaves Egypt for U S
1926Gerry Fitt, Northern Irish soldier and politician; British life peer (died 2005)[†]
Gerard Fitt, Baron Fitt, was a politician from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was a founder and the first leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), a social democratic and Irish nationalist party.
1926Hugh Hefner, American publisher, founded Playboy Enterprises (died 2017)[†]
Hugh Marston Hefner was an American magazine publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, a publication with revealing photographs and articles. Hefner extended the Playboy brand into a world network of Playboy Clubs. He also resided in luxury mansions where Playboy Playmates shared his wild partying life, fueling media interest.
1926Harris Wofford, American politician, author, and civil rights activist (died 2019)[†]
Harris Llewellyn Wofford Jr. was an American attorney, civil rights activist, and Democratic Party politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1991 to 1995. A noted advocate of national service and volunteering, Wofford was also the fifth president of Bryn Mawr College from 1970 to 1978, served as chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party in 1986, served as Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor and Industry in the cabinet of Governor Robert P. Casey from 1987 to 1991, and was a surrogate for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. He introduced Obama in Philadelphia at the National Constitution Center before Obama's speech on race in America, "A More Perfect Union."
1926Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (born 1857)[†]
William Henry Johnson, known as Zip the Pinhead, was an American freak show performer known for his tapered head.