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ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 9. -- Ethiopia claimed a smashing victory on the southern front today to add to a major success in the north.
S for Vinson bonus bill in House debate
Japanese delegates in conf with Brit led by Capt A Eden are uncompromising in stand on parity; conf failure seems near; Tokyo claims Adm Nagano had not asked for further instructions; Japan hopes conf will not fall
White House reception for justices
1936Stephen E. Ambrose, American historian and author (died 2002)[†]
Stephen Edward Ambrose was an American historian, academic, and author, most noted for his books on World War II and his biographies of U.S. presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many bestselling volumes of American popular history.
1936Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Robert Woodrow Wilson is an American astronomer who, along with Arno Allan Penzias, discovered cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) in 1964. The pair won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for its discovery.