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Speeds toward Annapolis; discussion of problems expected at Cabinet meeting
Gov Lehman orders all police officers to enforce beer and wine law
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1933Edward Brandt, Jr., American physician and mathematician (died 2007)[†]
Edward Newman Brandt Jr. MD was an American physician, mathematician, and public health administrator. He was appointed acting surgeon general of the United States from 1981 to 1982 and served as the United States assistant secretary for health from 1981 to 1984.
1933Hipólito Yrigoyen, Argentinian educator and politician, 19th President of Argentina (born 1852)[†]
Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union who served as President of Argentina from 1916 to 1922 and again from 1928 until his overthrow in 1930. He was the first president elected democratically by means of the secret ballot and mandatory male suffrage established by the Sáenz Peña Law of 1912. His activism was the prime impetus behind the passage of that law in Argentina.