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Fed Reserve Bd orders member banks to rept names of those who withdrew gold since Feb 1 and fail to return it by March 13
Treas revokes permit to N Y S to issue scrip
Those dated during holiday are valid
Statement on flag issue
1933Lloyd Price, American R&B singer-songwriter (died 2021)[†]
Lloyd Price was an American R&B and rock 'n' roll singer, known as "Mr. Personality", after his 1959 million-selling hit, "Personality". His first recording, "Lawdy Miss Clawdy", was a hit for Specialty Records in 1952. He continued to release records, but none were as popular until several years later, when he refined the New Orleans beat and achieved a series of national hits. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
1933David Weatherall, English physician, geneticist, and academic (died 2018)[†]
Sir David John Weatherall was a British physician and researcher in molecular genetics, haematology, pathology and clinical medicine.
1933Artt Frank, American jazz drummer and biographer (died 2024)[†]
Artt Frank was an American jazz drummer specializing in the bebop, hard bop, and cool jazz styles. He is best known for having toured with trumpet player Chet Baker during much of his career.
1933Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.[†]
The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial production and international trade, and widespread bank and business failures around the world. The economic contagion began in 1929 in the United States, the largest economy in the world, with the devastating Wall Street crash of 1929 often considered the beginning of the Depression. Among the countries with the most unemployed were the U.S., the United Kingdom, and Germany.