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Soviet terrorism
W B Hickox, Cleveland, Ohio, clubman, dies at Hotel Roosevelt
B M T shows signs of willingness to compromise on bond issue by setting sale price which would be advantageous to city in event of recapture
1927Fernand Dumont, Canadian sociologist, philosopher, and poet (died 1997)[†]
Fernand Dumont was a Canadian sociologist, philosopher, theologian, and poet from Quebec. A longtime professor at Université Laval, he won the Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction at the 1968 Governor General's Awards for Le lieu de l'homme.
1927James B. Edwards, American dentist, soldier, and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Energy (died 2014)[†]
James Burrows Edwards was an American politician and administrator from South Carolina. He was the first Republican to be elected governor of South Carolina since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era in the 1870s. He later served as the U.S. secretary of energy under Ronald Reagan.
1927Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)[†]
Martin Lewis Perl was an American chemical engineer and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton.