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W T Cosgrave party attacked on way to meeting at Killybegs; Blue Shirt headqrs in Dublin closed and many arrested; warrant issued for O'Duffy
Alumni Bulletin lists 308 publications in last 6 mos
Invites Ryan and other members of Bd of Educ to discuss apptmt of new Supt of Schools on Jan 1; text of lr
Prince and Princess Bernard of Saxe-Meiningen flee to Italy; head of pol police in Carinthia suspended from duty; bomb explosion in train at Vienna station
Throngs attend; B Harris, 9, wins first car
1933Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., Filipino civil servant and politician, 23rd President of the Senate of the Philippines (died 2019)[†]
Aquilino Quilinging Pimentel Jr., commonly known as Nene Pimentel, was a Filipino politician and human rights lawyer who was one of the leading political opposition leaders during the regime of Ferdinand Marcos from the declaration of martial law in 1972 until the People Power Revolution in 1986, which removed Marcos from power. He co-founded the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (PDP–Laban) and served as the President of the Senate of the Philippines from 2000 to 2001. He is the father of former Senator Aquilino Pimentel III. In 2018, Pimentel was identified by the Human Rights Victims' Claims Board as a Motu Proprio human rights violations victim of the Martial Law Era.