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June 21, 1931

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CITY STIFLES AT 93, YEAR'S HOTTEST DAY; WAVE NATION-WIDE; Mayor Opens Parks to Sleepers as Six Deaths and Score of Prostrations Are Reported. HEAT OVER 90 IN 28 STATES Deaths Placed Above l00 as High Wind and Cloudbursts Follow Torrid Wave. 94 IN CHICAGO SETS RECORD Corn and Peach Crops Parched in West--Relief Due Today With Thunder Showers. High Wind and Cloudbursts in West. Thunder Showers Due Today. CITY STIFLES AT 93; YEAR'S HOTTEST DAY Heat Deaths. Prostrated by Heat. PHILADELPHIA MERCURY 98. All of Pennsylvania Suffers--Two Deaths From Heat Reported. 2 DIE, 6 DROWNED IN BOSTON. Heat Rises to 97, Record for Day-- Thirteen Are Prostrated. STORM LASHES PITTSBURGH. Torrent of Rain Sends Mercury Down 19 Degrees in Half an Hour. HEAVY LOSS IN MINNESOTA. Windstorms and Rain Climax Year's Worst Hot Spell. 3 KILLED IN WEST VIRGINIA. Lightning Injures a Fourth, While 3 in Same Group Are Unhurt. Knoxville's 97 a June Record. Falls to Death Seeking to Cool Off Freezing Weather in Canada.

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Tibbett, L Jr, almost drowns

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MOVE CHEERS All GERMANY; Bruening Calls Session of the Cabinet Today to Study Offer. STOCKS EXPERIENCE 'BOOM' But Rises Up to 15 Points Are Nearly All Lost When Curb on Credit Is Ordered. DRAIN OF GOLD CONTINUES Reichsbank Reserves Now Are Close to 40 Per Cent Legal Coverage for Notes. Think Longer Spell Is Needed. Officials Welcomed First Step. Hugenberg Press Doubtful. GERMANY CHEERED BY OFFER OF HELP Credit Restriction Is Begun. Cabinet Discusses Proposal.

By Guido Enderis. Special Cable To the New York Times

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Notable Births

1931Zlatko Grgić, Croatian-Canadian animator, director, and screenwriter (died 1988)[†]

Zlatko Grgić was a Croatian animator who emigrated to Canada in the late 1960s.

Margaret Heckler

1931Margaret Heckler, American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (died 2018)[†]

Margaret Mary Heckler was an American politician and diplomat who represented Massachusetts's 10th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1967 until 1983. A member of the Republican Party, she also served as the 15th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services from 1983 to 1985, as well as United States ambassador to Ireland from 1986 to 1989.

David Kushnir

1931David Kushnir, Israeli Olympic long-jumper (died 2020)[†]

David Kushnir was an Israeli Olympic long-jumper and track and field coach.