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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York at 12:30 o'clock this morning made public a list of the New York City member banks which it had authorized to open for business at the usual banking hours today.
German Memorial Day celebrated in Germany
State banks rush to join
1933Diane Dillon, American illustrator[†]
Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon were American illustrators of children's books and adult paperback book and magazine covers. One obituary of Leo called the work of the husband-and-wife team "a seamless amalgam of both their hands". In more than 50 years, they created more than 100 speculative fiction book and magazine covers together as well as much interior artwork. Essentially all of their work in that field was joint.
1933Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and sociologist (died 2014)[†]
Mahdi Elmandjra was a Moroccan futurologist, economist and sociologist. He is one of the founders of the International Federation for Future Studies (Futuribles). He predicted a number of events, the most important of which was the clash of civilisations in his book "The first civilisation war" in 1992, that is, before Samuel Huntington, who used the same concept in his book "The clash of civilisations" issued in 1996. Mahdi Elmandjra also predicted the occurrence of the "Arab Spring", which he referred to in his writings under the name of "Intifada".
1933Gero von Wilpert, German author and academic (died 2009)[†]
Gero von Wilpert was a German author, a senior lecturer in German at the University of New South Wales and, from 1980, Professor of German at the University of Sydney.