Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium was the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg as the wife of Grand Duke Jean. She was the first child of King Leopold III of Belgium, and sister of the late King Baudouin and former King Albert II and aunt of King Philippe. She was also the maternal first cousin of King Harald V of Norway, maternal second cousin of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, and a paternal third cousin of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

1927Jim Prior, Baron Prior, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (died 2016)^[†]

James Michael Leathes Prior, Baron Prior, was a British Conservative Party politician. A Member of Parliament from 1959 to 1987, he represented the Suffolk constituency of Lowestoft until 1983 and then the renamed constituency of Waveney from 1983 to 1987, when he stood down from the House of Commons and was made a life peer. He served in two Conservative cabinets, and outside parliament was Chairman of the Arab British Chamber of Commerce from 1996 to 2004, and Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University from 1992 to 1999.

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Costes Over Africa on Flight to Argentina; Speeds 1,200 Miles in 12 Hours Out of Paris

Note Released by Washington.; LOAN CONCESSION WITH NOTE TO PARIS

TEAPOT DOME IS WON BACK; SUPREME COURT DENOUNCES SINCLAIR LEASE AS FRAUD; FALL CALLED FAITHLESS

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