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June 8, 1930

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GERMAN ENVOY SLAIN BY DEMENTED SAILOR ON A DOCK IN LISBON; Assassin Goes From Danzig, Seeking Revenge for Fancied Persecutions by Police. VICTIM HAD VISITED FLEET Slayer Planned Death of British, American or German Minister to Portugal. USED FALSE PAPERS HERE Examination of Prisoner by Alienists Will Be Made Before Extradition Proceedings Begin. Lives Only Two Hours. Suspected as Red Agent. GERMAN ENVOY SLAIN BY DEMENTED SAILOR Believe Slayer a Maniac.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

8 new cruisers incorporated into fleet

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Notable Births

Robert Aumann

1930Robert Aumann, German-American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate[†]

Robert John Aumann is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also holds a visiting position at Stony Brook University, and is one of the founding members of the Stony Brook Center for Game Theory.

Marcel LĂ©ger

1930Marcel LĂ©ger, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 1993)[†]

Marcel LĂ©ger was a Canadian politician, and a supporter of Quebec sovereignty. He also founded the Canadian polling firm that became LĂ©ger Marketing.