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Count von Quadt, leader of Bavarian People's Party, apptd Bavarian Min of Economics
T Komai says Russia has not offered to sell out to Manchukuo, and Manchukuo would not offer any price Russia would be likely to accept
concession to French desire for security believed made
Cracks appear in walls of Lapidary Hall; authorities remove heaviest statuary
Budget provides for increase in exch equalization fund; no connection with U S gold embargo, says Chancellor of Exchequer Chamberlain
1933Carol Burnett, American actress, singer, and producer[†]
Carol Creighton Burnett is an American comedian, actress, singer and writer. Burnett has played dramatic and comedic roles on stage and screen. She has received numerous awards and accolades, including seven Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, seven Primetime Emmy Awards, twelve People's Choice Awards, two Peabody Awards and a Tony Award. Burnett has been honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1975, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2013, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2015.
1933Al McCoy, American sports announcer (died 2024)[†]
Allen Leonard McCoy was an American sportscaster who was the play-by-play announcer for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association from 1972 to 2023. The 2022–23 NBA season was his 51st and final season. He is the longest-tenured broadcaster in NBA history.
1933Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican-American general (died 2005)[†]
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos was a Puerto Rican independence activist who cofounded the Boricua Popular Army, also known as Los Macheteros, and its predecessor, the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña (FALN). In 1990, Ojeda Ríos became a fugitive of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), wanted for his role in the 1983 Águila Blanca heist, which netted more than US$7 million, as well as a bail bond default on September 23 of that year. On September 23, 2005, he was killed during an exchange of gunfire with FBI agents after they surrounded the house in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico.
1933Arno Allan Penzias, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)[†]
Arno Allan Penzias was an American physicist and radio astronomer. Along with Robert Woodrow Wilson, he discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978.
1933The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established by Hermann Göring.[†]
The Geheime Staatspolizei, abbreviated Gestapo ( ), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.