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King, in telegram, agrees to head new Govt established by People's Party; Prince Paribatra and other members of royal family guarded; R Leon believes upset was caused by adoption of gold standard
In none of the financial markets was there any incident yesterday to break the monotony of an uneventful week. Stocks marked time and the bond market was only a trifle less apathetic. There was an irregular decline in the foreign exchanges, with the exception of sterling, which rose 3/8 cent to $3.61 1/2.
With two smashing finishing rounds, unquestionably the greatest ever played in any golf championship. Gene Sarazen yesterday added the United States open title to the crown he annexed only a few weeks ago in Great Britain.
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1932Dame Marguerite Pindling, Bahamian politician; Governor-General of the Bahamas[†]
Dame Marguerite Pindling, Lady Pindling, served as the tenth governor-general of the Bahamas, from 8 July 2014 to 28 June 2019. She is the second female governor-general of the Bahamas after Dame Ivy Dumont.
1932Don Valentine, American venture capitalist (died 2019)[†]
Donald Thomas Valentine was an American venture capitalist who concentrated mainly on technology companies in the United States. As the founder of Sequoia Capital, he has been referred to as the "grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital". The Computer History Museum credited him as playing "a key role in the formation of a number of industries such as semiconductors, personal computers, personal computer software, digital entertainment and networking."
1932Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic (born 1900)[†]
Adelaide Ames was an American astronomer and research assistant at Harvard University. She was best known for her work on detailed surveys of the brightest extra-galactic spiral nebulae. She contributed to the study of galaxies with her co-authorship of A Survey of the External Galaxies Brighter Than the Thirteenth Magnitude, which was later known as the Shapley-Ames catalog. Ames was a member of the American Astronomical Society. She was a contemporary of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and her closest friend at the observatory.