Sir Peter Mansfield was an English physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Paul Lauterbur, for discoveries concerning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Mansfield was a professor at the University of Nottingham.

1933Melvin Sokolsky, American fashion photographer (died 2022)^[†]

Melvin Sokolsky was an American photographer and film director.

1933Bill Tidy, English soldier and cartoonist (died 2023)^[†]

William Edward Tidy, MBE was a British cartoonist, writer and television personality, known chiefly for his comic strips. He was noted for his charitable work, particularly for the Lord's Taverners, which he supported for over 30 years. Deeply proud of his working-class roots in Northern England, his most abiding cartoon strips, such as The Cloggies and The Fosdyke Saga, were set in an exaggerated version of that environment.

Headlines from October 9, 1933

393 Miles an Hour Flown By Italian for a Record

HILLQUIT, LEADER OF SOCIALISTS, DIES; An Organizer of Party in Its present Form, He Was Often Candidate for High Office.

DALADIER PLEDGES DEFENSE OF FRANC; Bars Devaluation and Says if Budget Balancing Plan is Rejected He Will Quit.

Stars' Invisible Rays Photographed By New Aluminum Mirror Device; Cornell Astronomers, 8,000 Feet Up on Arizona Peak, Use Process Developed at Ithaca to Obtain Record of "Blue Rainbows."

Pact on Sugar Stabilization Is Scrapped, But Wallace Still Plans Domestic Crop Cut

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