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Enthusiasm for leading American stocks was evidenced on the London Stock Exchange yesterday while the American markets were closed. United States Steel common, which came ...
Religious pageant in St Peter's Square planned for July 25
Independence Day dinner, Amer Soc in London
Spends afternoon watching boys play baseball near White House grounds
Communist Internal's efforts to end strife in Amer party
1929Jimmy Carruthers, Australian boxer (died 1990)[†]
James William Carruthers was an Australian boxer, who became the Undisputed Bantamweight World Champion in 1952.
1929Katherine Helmond, American actress and director (died 2019)[†]
Katherine Marie Helmond was an American actress. Over an acting career spanning six decades, she was best known for her starring role as Jessica Tate on the sitcom Soap (1977–1981) and her co-starring role as Mona Robinson on Who's the Boss? (1984–1992). Helmond also played Doris Sherman on Coach (1995–1997) and Lois Whelan on Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2004). She also appeared as a guest on several talk and variety shows.
1929Tony Lock, English cricketer (died 1995)[†]
Graham Anthony Richard Lock was an English cricketer, who played primarily as a left-arm spinner. He played in 49 Test matches for England taking 174 wickets.
1929Jovan Rašković, Serbian psychiatrist, academic, and politician (died 1992)[†]
Jovan Rašković was a Croatian Serb psychiatrist, academic and politician.
1929Jiří Reynek, Czech poet and graphic artist (died 2014)[†]
Jiří Reynek was a Czech poet and graphic artist. A fluent French speaker, he translated the works of Henri Pourrat and Francis Jammes. He was the son of Suzanne Renaud and Bohuslav Reynek. Photographer Daniel Reynek was his older brother. The family spent winters in Grenoble and summers in Petrkov, where Reynek spent most of his adult life. The family farm was seized by Germany during World War II, then came under state control after Czechoslovakia transitioned to communism in the 1948 coup d'état.
1929Henry Johnson, American sergeant (born 1897)[†]
William Henry Johnson, commonly known as Henry Johnson, was a United States Army soldier who performed heroically in the first African American unit of the United States Army to engage in combat in World War I. On watch in the Argonne Forest on May 14, 1918, he fought off a German raid in hand-to-hand combat, killing multiple German soldiers and rescuing a fellow soldier while suffering 21 wounds, in an action that was brought to the nation's attention by coverage in the New York World and The Saturday Evening Post later that year. On June 2, 2015, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama in a ceremony at the White House.