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Repr Beedy says inflation amendment gives Roosevelt power to pay veterans' bonus
Shouts her remedy for depression from House of Reprs gallery
Socialist Party attacked in seizure of free labor union offices by Nazis and arrest of leaders
Hoarders withhold gold; many plan to test constitutionality of Treas order
M McMath, 10, kidnapped from school; Negro and 2 white men sought, Harwichport
1933James Brown, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2006)[†]
James Joseph Brown was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, and record producer. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th-century music, he is referred to by various nicknames, among them "Mr. Dynamite", "the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business", "Minister of New Super Heavy Funk", "Godfather of Soul", "King of Soul", and "Soul Brother No. 1". In a career that lasted more than 50 years, he influenced the development of several music genres. Brown was one of the first ten inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on January 23, 1986. His music has been heavily sampled by hip-hop musicians and other artists.
1933Steven Weinberg, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)[†]
Steven Weinberg was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles.