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Pius XI admonishes against paganism
On N Y C balance sheet and bankers' agreement
bill signed; memorandum text
Message to U S Cong on celebration of Lafayette centenary
1934Jocasta Innes, Chinese-English journalist and author (died 2013)[†]
Jocasta Claire Traill Innes was a British writer, journalist and businesswoman. She mainly wrote about cooking, crafts and homemaking, including in her books The Pauper's Homemaking Book (1976) and The Country Kitchen (1987), and worked for publications such as Cosmopolitan. She founded and was CEO of the paint company Paint Magic in the 1980s, inspired by her 1981 book Paint Magic. Two of her children, Daisy and Jason Goodwin, are also writers.
1934Bob Northern, American horn player and bandleader (died 2020)[†]
Robert Northern, known professionally as Brother Ah, was an American jazz French hornist.
1934Bengt I. Samuelsson, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)[†]
Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson was a Swedish biochemist. He shared with Sune K. Bergström and John R. Vane the 1982 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances.
1934Oskaloosa, Iowa, becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.[†]
Oskaloosa is a city in, and the county seat of, Mahaska County, Iowa. The population was 11,558 in the 2020 U.S. census. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Oskaloosa was a national center of bituminous coal mining. Today, Oskaloosa is home to William Penn University, a private university, and Lake Keomah State Park which is located four miles east of the city.