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January 8, 1933

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Headlines from January 8, 1933

PRESIDENT VISIBLY MOVED; Occupies Front Pew at Services in Church at Northampton. HE SITS AS ONE APART Deep Grief Over the Passing of His Predecessor Is Plainly Apparent. LATER AT COOLIDGE HOME Condoles With the Family -- He Has Difficulty Entering the Church Through Crowd. HOOVER GRIEVES AT COOLIDGE BIER

By Russell Owen.special To the New York Times.by Russell Owen

NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Jan. 7 -- A man whose face was lined with weariness, whose eyes were shadowed with grief, walked into the red brick Congregational Church here today to say farewell to his friend Calvin Coolidge President Hoover looked neither to one side nor the other.

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Notable Births

Charles Osgood

1933Charles Osgood, American soldier and journalist (died 2024)[†]

Charles Osgood Wood III was an American radio and television commentator, writer, and musician. Osgood was best known both for being the host of CBS News Sunday Morning, a role he held for over 22 years from April 10, 1994, until September 25, 2016, and The Osgood File, a series of daily radio commentaries he hosted from 1971 until December 29, 2017.

1933Jean-Marie Straub, French director and screenwriter (died 2022)[†]

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet were a duo of French filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006. Their films are noted for their rigorous, intellectually stimulating style and radical, communist politics. While both were French, they worked mostly in Germany and Italy. From the Clouds to the Resistance (1979) and Sicilia! (1999) are among the duo's best regarded works.

Historical Events

Anarchist insurrection of January 1933

1933Anarchist insurrection of January 1933 breaks out in Barcelona, Spain.[†]

The anarchist insurrection of January 1933 was an attempted revolution carried out by Spanish anarchists, with the intention of overthrowing the government of Spain and establishing libertarian communism.