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J D Rockefeller Jr makes public lrs requesting resignation of Col R W Stewart as Chmn of Bd
Plans for flights from Spitsbergen as base
Killed in airplane crash
Will build replica of Federal Hall next to Fraunces Tavern, N Y C
Riverside Drive residents win fight to bar Electric Ferries, Inc from building terminal
1928Arnold Rüütel, Estonian agronomist and politician, President of Estonia (died 2024)[†]
Arnold Rüütel was an Estonian politician. He was the third President of Estonia from 8 October 2001 to 9 October 2006. Rüütel was the second president of the country after the end of the 1944–1991 Soviet occupation, and the restoration of the independent Republic of Estonia on 20 August 1991.
1928Lothar Schmid, German chess player (died 2013)[†]
Lothar Maximilian Lorenz Schmid was a German chess grandmaster. He was born in Radebeul in Saxony into a family who were the co-owners of the Karl May Press, which published the German Karl May adventure novels.