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96 degrees in Rome
Dist Atty Brower gives gangs 48 hrs to leave Bklyn; orders general round-up
Fined for holding religious service at prison contrary to Mex law prohibiting any pub religious act outside of chs
Buenos Aires guarded by guns; troops protect Pres Irigoyen; revolution plot mooted; mystery attends movements; Cabinet in all-night session
N Y S Fed of Labor urges return of beer and light wines and special session of Cong for $1,000,000,000 relief
1930Jacques Bouchard, Canadian businessman (died 2006)[†]
Jacques Bouchard, was a Canadian advertising executive and author. He was one of the founders of Quebec's first French creative advertising agency, BCP, and a pioneer in French-language advertising.
1930Carlos Loyzaga, Filipino basketball player and coach (died 2016)[†]
Carlos "Caloy" Loyzaga y Matute was a Filipino basketball player, coach and politician. He was the most dominant basketball player of his era in the Philippines and is considered as the greatest Filipino basketball player of all time. As a member of the Philippine national team. Loyzaga was a two-time Olympian and led the Philippines to bronze at the 1954 FIBA World Championship, where he was named to the All-Tournament second team.
1930William Archibald Spooner, English priest and author (born 1844)[†]
William Archibald Spooner was a British clergyman and long-serving Oxford don. He was most notable for his absent-mindedness, and for supposedly mixing up the syllables in a spoken phrase, with unintentionally comic effect. Such phrases became known as spoonerisms, and are often used humorously. Many spoonerisms have been invented and attributed to Spooner.
1930The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.[†]
St Kilda is a remote archipelago situated 35 nautical miles west-northwest of North Uist in the North Atlantic Ocean. It contains the westernmost islands of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The largest island is Hirta, whose sea cliffs are the highest in the United Kingdom; three other islands were also used for grazing and seabird hunting. The islands are administratively a part of the Comhairle nan Eilean Siar local authority area.