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WHEN the people of New York go to the polls on Tuesday to select their next Mayor they will be con fronted with the task of making a choice among three candidates of very different types.
When the campaign on the Queens political battlefields drew to a virtual close last night frank politicians admitted that the outcome of the fight over the borough presidency would be altogether in doubt until Tuesday night.
Death
1929Alfonso Orueta, Chilean footballer, manager, and politician (died 2012)[†]
Alfonso Orueta Ansoleaga was a Chilean politician and football manager.
1929Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet and educator (born 1883)[†]
Olav Aukrust was a Norwegian poet and teacher. He popularized the use of Nynorsk as a literary language and is most commonly associated with his poem Himmelvarden (1916).
1929The Gwangju Student Independence Movement occurred.[†]
The Gwangju Student Independence Movement, or Gwangju Student Movement, was a protest in Gwangju between October and November 1929 against the Japanese occupation of Korea. It is considered the second-most important Korean independence movement in the period of the Japanese Occupation of Korea, with the March 1st Movement considered the most important rebellion.