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Jury returns verdict of not guilty
4 officers killed in collision, near Chanute Field, Ill
Debates value of Sen investigation, in discussing Controller McCarl's report
Amer League said to have bought evidence from Leonard, who accused Cobb and Speaker; Cleveland and Detroit fans rally to Speaker and Cobb
1926Robert Bly, American poet and essayist (died 2021)[†]
Robert Elwood Bly was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is Iron John: A Book About Men (1990), which spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list, and is a key text of the mythopoetic men’s movement. He won the 1968 National Book Award for Poetry for his book The Light Around the Body.
1926Harold Dorman, American singer-songwriter (died 1988)[†]
Harold Kenneth Dorman was an American rock and roll singer and songwriter.
1926Swami Shraddhanand, Indian monk, missionary, and educator (born 1856)[†]
Munshi Ram, better known as Swami Shraddhanand was an Indian independence activist and Arya Samaj sannyasi who propagated the teachings of Dayananda Saraswati. This included the establishment of educational institutions, like the Gurukul Kangri University, and played a key role on the Sangathan and the Shuddhi (purification), a Hindu reform movement in the 1920s.