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H Gibson presents 9-point program for reduction and limitation, in behalf of U S
Govt appropriates $21,000,000 for operations at Shanghai
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1932Tatsuro Hirooka, Japanese baseball player and manager[†]
Tatsuro Hirooka is a Japanese retired professional baseball player and manager.
1932Gerhard Richter, German painter and photographer[†]
Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and several of his works have set record prices at auction, with him being the most expensive living painter at one time.
1932Junnosuke Inoue, Japanese businessman and banker (born 1869)[†]
Junnosuke Inoue was a Japanese financier and statesman of the Taisho and Showa eras. He was the 9th and 11th Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), and Minister of Finance in 1923-1924 and 1929-1931. He was assassinated during the League of Blood Incident in 1932.
1932A.K. Golam Jilani, Bangladeshi soldier and activist (born 1904)[†]
A. K. Golam Jilani was a Bengali revolutionary of the Indian independence movement from the Nawabganj Upazila, Dhaka in present-day Bangladesh.
1932Prohibition law is abolished in Finland after a national referendum, where 70% voted for a repeal of the law.[†]
Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic beverages. The word is also used to refer to a period of time during which such bans are enforced.