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Wash concerned over Snowden move; possibility seen that Germany will refuse to make Dawes payments
D A R will place granite boulder beside West Branch, Ia, house in which Pres was born
M Cole asks damages from Mono Aircraft Corp of Moline, Ill, for crash with his auto
Seriously injured in airplane crash
1929Pierre Fatou, French mathematician and astronomer (born 1878)[†]
Pierre Joseph Louis Fatou was a French mathematician and astronomer. He is known for major contributions to several branches of analysis. The Fatou lemma and the Fatou set are named after him.
1929Aletta Jacobs, Dutch physician (born 1854)[†]
Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs was a Dutch physician and women's suffrage activist. As the first woman officially to attend a Dutch university, she became one of the first female physicians in the Netherlands. In 1882, she founded the world's first birth control clinic and was a leader in both the Dutch and international women's movements. She led campaigns aimed at deregulating prostitution, improving women's working conditions, promoting peace and calling for women's right to vote.