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WASHINGTON, June 8. -- With only two days intervening until Captain Charles A. Lindbergh is due to arrive for his national reception, committees were working feverishly today and tonight in preparation for one of the greatest celebrations this city has known.
Congratulates them and gives them signed portraits
BERLIN, June 8. -- For weeks before our flight we had planned for it. This was based on the promise made by one of us -Chamberlin -- that he would gladly go alone with the other -- Levine -- instead of a more experienced pilot or navigator.
1927George Nigh, American politician, 17th and 22nd Governor of Oklahoma (died 2025)[†]
George Patterson Nigh was an American politician and civic leader from the state of Oklahoma. Nigh served as the 17th and the 22nd governor of Oklahoma and as the eighth and tenth lieutenant governor of Oklahoma. He was the first Oklahoma governor to be re-elected and the first to win all 77 counties in the state. Additionally, short term vacancies in the governor's office twice resulted in Nigh assuming gubernatorial duties while serving as lieutenant governor.
1927Jim Nolan, American basketball player (died 1983)[†]
James S. Nolan was an American professional basketball player. Nolan was selected in the second round of the 1949 BAA Draft by the Philadelphia Warriors. He played for the Warriors for five games in the 1949–50 NBA season and recorded totals of eight points and four assists. He played college basketball and football at Georgia Institute of Technology. He later returned to Georgia and started a coaching career leading the Tech Freshman Basketball team from 1955 to 1957, then became the Lanier football coach in the early 1960s. He is a member of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame and the Georgia Tech Athletic Hall of Fame.
1927Victoria Woodhull, American activist for women's rights (born 1838)[†]
Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for the presidency, some disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because according to the Constitution she would have been too young to be president if elected.