Repubs block Dem plans to force reduction by adopting Sen Norris's resolution that "sense" of the Sen approves application of Treas surplus to reduction of natl debt; vote

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Notable Births

1927Robert Allen, American pianist and composer (died 2000)^[†]

Robert Allen Deitcher was an American pianist and an arranger and writer of music for popular songs.

1927Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch captain and pilot (died 1977)^[†]

Jacob Louis Veldhuyzen van Zanten was a Dutch aircraft captain and flight instructor. He was the captain of KLM Flight 4805, and died in the Tenerife airport disaster, the deadliest accident in aviation history. He was KLM's chief instructor and commonly appeared on advertising.

Notable Deaths

1927Inayat Khan, Indian mystic and educator (born 1882)^[†]

Inayat Khan Rehmat Khan, was an Indian professor of musicology, singer, exponent of the sarasvati vina, poet, philosopher, writer, and pioneer of the transmission of Sufism to the West. At the urging of his students, and on the basis of his ancestral Sufi tradition and four-fold training and authorisation at the hands of Sayyid Abu Hashim Madani of Hyderabad, he established an order of Sufism in London in 1914. By the time of his death in 1927, centers had been established throughout Europe and North America, and multiple volumes of his teachings had been published.