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Com to change tactics owing to failure to secure any evidence that market declines were due to bear raiding
2 Irish Free State Mins leave ball at his arrival
Natl Socialists hail gains
J H Delaney summoned as witness at first public hearing on Walker's activities
1932Nikolai Kardashev, Russian astrophysicist (died 2019)[†]
Nikolai Semyonovich Kardashev was a Soviet and Russian astrophysicist best known for the Kardashev scale, which measures a civilization's status in technological evolution based on the amount of energy it is capable of harnessing and using. He was also the deputy director of the Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
1932Meadowlark Lemon, African-American basketball player and minister (died 2015)[†]
Meadowlark Lemon was an American basketball player, actor, and Christian minister. For 22 years, he was known as the "Clown Prince" of the touring Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. He was a 2003 inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Ordained in 1986, in 1994 he started Meadowlark Lemon Ministries in Scottsdale, Arizona.
1932Lia Manoliu, Romanian discus thrower and politician (died 1998)[†]
Lia Manoliu was a Romanian discus thrower who won one gold and two bronze Olympic medals. She was the first track and field athlete to compete at six Olympics (1952–1972).