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Md, Minn and Colo vote to ratify
Unauthorized walkouts and vacation strikes spread
Paraded by Nazis in Essen for ridicule
16% increase in Aug shown in analysis by Fed Reserve Bd
Dr A F Germann on its uses in fighting respiratory diseases
1933Eileen Fulton, American actress (died 2025)[†]
Margaret Elizabeth McLarty, known professionally as Eileen Fulton, was an American actress, singer and author. She portrayed Lisa Grimaldi on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, which she played almost continuously for 50 years, from May 18, 1960, until the show's ending on September 17, 2010. She also starred on Our Private World (1965), a primetime spin-off of As the World Turns. For her work on ATWT, she received an Editor's Award at the Soap Opera Digest Awards in 1991 and a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. Fulton appeared in theatrical productions including the original Broadway run of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? She performed a cabaret act at theaters in New York and Los Angeles. She co-authored two autobiographies, How My World Turns and As My World Still Turns. She also wrote a novel titled Soap Opera, and six murder-mystery novels.
1933Donald Mackay, Australian businessman and activist (died 1977)[†]
Donald Bruce Mackay was an Australian businessman and anti-drug campaigner. He disappeared in 1977, but his body has never been found. In 1986, James Bazley was convicted for his murder.
1933Lewie Steinberg, American bass player (died 2016)[†]
Lewie Polk Steinberg was an American musician best known as the original bass guitar player for the soul music group Booker T. & the M.G.'s.
1933Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.[†]
Elizabeth Reid McCombs was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party who in 1933 became the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament. New Zealand women gained the right to vote in 1893, though were not allowed to stand for the House of Representatives until the election of 1919. McCombs had previously contested elections in 1928 and 1931.