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October 19, 1932

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Fighting lasts Six Hours.; POLICE FIGHT MOBS IN LONDON SIX HOURS

By Unknown Author

LONDON, Oct. 18 (AP). -- The police turned back an army of several thousand jobless men today in the poorer-class Lambeth section, but not until six or seven hours of battling in hand-to-hand fashion had disturbed the peace of ancient Lambeth. Then came looting by rowdy youths, and when order was restored around 11 P.M. scores had been injured, at least twenty of them seriously.

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Robert Reed

1932Robert Reed, American actor (died 1992)[†]

Robert Reed was an American actor. He played Kenneth Preston on the legal drama The Defenders from 1961 to 1965 alongside E. G. Marshall, and is best known for his role as patriarch Mike Brady, opposite Florence Henderson's role as Carol Brady, on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch, which aired from 1969 to 1974. He later reprised his role of Mike Brady on several of the reunion programs. In 1976, he earned two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his guest-starring role in a two-part episode of Medical Center and for his work on the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man. The following year, Reed earned a third Emmy nomination for his role in the miniseries Roots.