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At service in First Reformed Ch, Asbury Park
T N McCarter and 4 others rescued when his yacht burns off-shore at Highlands, N J
Calls for new conception of missionary Christianity, in sermon at celebration of 1,300th anniversary of York Minster, Eng
1927Gina Lollobrigida, Italian actress and photographer (died 2023)[†]
Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida OMRI was an Italian actress, model, photojournalist, and sculptor. She was one of the highest-profile European actresses of the 1950s and 1960s, a period in which she was an international sex symbol. Dubbed "the most beautiful woman in the world", at the time of her death she was among the last surviving high-profile international actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
1927Neil Simon, American playwright and screenwriter (died 2018)[†]
Marvin Neil Simon was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays, mostly film adaptations of his plays. He received three Tony Awards and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for four Academy Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards. He was awarded a Special Tony Award in 1975, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1991, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995 and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006.
1927First flight of the Lockheed Vega.[†]
The Lockheed Vega is an American five- to seven-seat high-wing monoplane airliner built by the Lockheed Corporation starting in 1927. It became famous for its use by a number of record-breaking pilots who were attracted to its high speed and long range. Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in one, and Wiley Post used his to prove the existence of the jet stream after flying around the world twice.