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Prepared to face jail order
Says he is disappointed in rates on cocoanut oils in proposed tariff bill
Militia mobilized for opening of rayon mills at Elizabethton
Telephone conversation test with train proves success of radio; service will be installed
King Tut and collies banished to distant place in grounds because they disturb occupants at night
1929Rosemary Cramp, English archaeologist and academic (died 2023)[†]
Dame Rosemary Jean Cramp, was a British archaeologist and academic specialising in the Anglo-Saxons. She was the first female professor appointed at Durham University and was Professor of Archaeology from 1971 to 1990. She served as president of the Society of Antiquaries of London from 2001 to 2004.
1929Paul Lauterbur, American chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2007)[†]
Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible.