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Grain confers with McAdoo and G Z Medalie of subcom of Bar Assn which is investigating him
Banks will give no more aid by purchase of tax anticipation warrants
Pub Service Comm will act if co's profits pass 7%
Optimistic on outlook; denies rept that he said Gt Britain and U S were far apart on a naval treaty
Admi Byrd with H June, C Peterson and A McKinley fly to Discovery Inlet; conducts correspondence with Capt H H Railey during flight (R Owen)
1930Tanya Savicheva, Russian child diarist (died 1944)[â ]
Tatyana Nikolayevna Savicheva, commonly referred to as Tanya Savicheva, was a Soviet Russian teenage diarist who wrote a diary for several months, whilst enduring the siege of Leningrad during World War II. During the siege, Savicheva wrote the successive and unfortunate deaths of each member of her family from starvation and diseases such as dysentery and dystrophy over four and a half months in her diary, with the last family member to die being her mother, Mariya, on 13 May 1942. After her mother died, Tanya Savicheva wrote her final diary entry with the heartbreaking words, The Savichevs are dead. Everyone is dead. Only Tanya is left. Savicheva was evacuated from the besieged Leningrad and sent to live in a orphanage, she eventually died from tuberculosis on 1 July 1944, at the age of 14, in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
1930Mervyn Rose, Australian tennis player (died 2017)[â ]
Mervyn Gordon Rose AM was an Australian male tennis player who won seven Grand Slam titles.
1930Derek Walcott, Saint Lucian poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)[â ]
Sir Derek Alton Walcott OM was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright.
1930Teresa Å»ylis-Gara, Polish operatic soprano (died 2021)[â ]
Teresa Żylis-Gara was a Polish operatic soprano who enjoyed a major international career from the 1950s through the 1990s.