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Sen Watson says govt may have to discontinue income tax cut or float bond issue if veterans' relief program becomes effective
Simmons' defeat seen as rebuke for bolting
Proclaimed Carol II; takes oath; text; Sen and Chamber pass bill annulling act of renunciation of 1926; Prof Jorga condemns banishment; relations with Princess Helen obscure; por
1930Barbara, French singer (died 1997)[â ]
Monique AndrÊe Serf, known as Barbara, was a French singer. She took her stage name from her grandmother, Varvara Brodsky, a native of Odesa, Ukraine. Barbara became a famous cabaretière in the late 1950s in Paris, known as La Chanteuse de minuit, before she started composing her own tracks, which brought her to fame. Her most famous songs include "Dis, quand reviendras-tu ?" (1962), "Ma plus belle histoire d'amour" (1966) and "L'Aigle noir" (1970), the latter of which is said to have sold over 1 million copies in just twelve hours.
1930Jordi Pujol, Spanish physician and politician, 126th President of the Generalitat de Catalunya[â ]
Jordi Pujol i Soley is a retired Catalan politician who was the leader of the party Convergència Democrà tica de Catalunya (CDC) from 1974 to 2003, and President of the Generalitat de Catalunya from 1980 to 2003.
1930A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.[â ]
The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1847, it was formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper", a slogan from which its once integrated WGN radio and WGN television received their call letters. It is the most-read daily newspaper in the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region, and the sixth-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States.