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April 3, 1933

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6,000 AT HOLY HOUR HEAR WORLD CALLED TO SPIRITUAL IDEALS; Leaders of Catholics, Jews and Protestants Urge Men and Nations to Good-Will. SMITH ON "SEEDS OF WAR" Settle Debt and Economic Problems, "Uproot Bigotry and Oppression," He Pleads. POPE'S WORDS ARE HAILED Roosevelt's Biblical Quotation Is Also a Keynote -- Cardinal Present -- Lyons and Cadman Speak. 6,000 OF 3 FAITHS JOIN IN HOLY HOUR NOTABLES AT THE HOLY HOUR CEREMONY.

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S at Holy Hour service, Radio City Music Hall

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Notable Births

Bob Dornan

1933Bob Dornan, American politician[†]

Robert Kenneth Dornan is an American actor, radio talk show host, combat veteran, and Republican politician from California. Dornan represented two Southern California districts in the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1983 and from 1985 to 1997, where he became known as a "leading firebrand" on the party's conservative wing. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for the United States Senate in 1982 and for President of the United States in 1996.

1933Rod Funseth, American golfer (died 1985)[†]

James Rodney Funseth was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour.

Historical Events

Mount Everest

1933First flight over Mount Everest, the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.[†]

Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at its summit. Its height was most recently measured in 2020 by Chinese and Nepali authorities as 8,848.86 m.