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U S Govt apologizes for action of Judge Green
Hoover war-debt plan
5 engineers serving sentences for sabotage given prizes for work in Aviation Factory 39
Suicide
Whereabouts of S Shingu and K Fukuma
1931Dick Gray, American baseball player (died 2013)[†]
Richard Benjamin Gray was an American professional baseball player. He was an infielder in Major League Baseball, playing mainly as a third baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals from 1958 through 1960. Listed at 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and 165 pounds (75 kg), he batted and threw right handed.
1931Thurston Harris, American doo-wop singer (died 1990)[†]
Thurston Harris was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his 1957 hit "Little Bitty Pretty One".
1931Tab Hunter, American actor and singer (died 2018)[†]
Tab Hunter was an American actor, singer, film producer, and author. Known for his blond hair and clean-cut good looks, Hunter starred in more than forty films. During the 1950s and 1960s, in his twenties and thirties, Hunter was a Hollywood heart-throb, acting in numerous roles and appearing on the covers of hundreds of magazines. His notable screen credits include Battle Cry (1955), The Girl He Left Behind (1956), Gunman's Walk (1958), Damn Yankees (1958), and Polyester (1981). Hunter also had a music career in the late 1950s; in 1957, he released a no. 1 hit single "Young Love". Hunter's 2005 autobiography, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, was a New York Times bestseller.
1931Tullio Regge, Italian physicist and academic (died 2014)[†]
Tullio Eugenio Regge was an Italian theoretical physicist.