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Christmas celebration; distributes gifts to poor; por; illus
Christmas celebration
Gilmore Oil Co bars gasoline sales to drunken drivers
Mongolia charges threat of Japanese-Manchukuoan invasion; demands apology from Manchukuo
Berlin-Basel express rams local train, Gross Heringen; 20 killed, 80 hurt: Pres J H Dorpmueller conducts rescue work and inquiry
1935Sadiq al-Mahdi, Sudanese politician, Prime Minister of Sudan (died 2020)[†]
Sadiq al-Mahdi, also known as Sadiq as-Siddiq, was a Sudanese political and religious figure who was Prime Minister of Sudan from 1966 to 1967 and again from 1986 to 1989. He was head of the National Umma Party and Imam of the Ansar, a Sufi order that pledges allegiance to Muhammad Ahmad (1844–1885), who claimed to be the Mahdi, the messianic saviour of Islam.
1935Stephen Barnett, American scholar and academic (died 2009)[†]
Stephen Roger Barnett was an American law professor and legal scholar who campaigned against the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 and the effects its antitrust exemptions had on newspaper consolidation. He also criticized the California Supreme Court for practices that hid information from the public.
1935Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, American educator and politician (died 2007)[†]
Jeanne Hopkins Lucas was the first African-American woman elected to serve in North Carolina's state Senate.
1935Paul Bourget, French author and critic (born 1852)[†]
Paul Charles Joseph Bourget was a French poet, novelist and critic. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.