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1936Joe Don Baker, American actor (died 2025)[†]
Joe Don Baker was an American actor, known for playing "tough guy" characters on both sides of the law. He established himself as an action star with supporting roles in the Westerns Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969) and Wild Rovers (1971), before his breakthrough role as real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in the film Walking Tall (1973).
1936Alan Ebringer, Australian immunologist[†]
Alan Martin Ebringer is an Australian immunologist, professor at King's College London. He is also an Honorary Consultant Rheumatologist in the Middlesex Hospital, now part of the UCH School of Medicine. He is known for his research in the field of autoimmune disease.
Elects 1st woman member
Secret police arrest 150 leaders of Cath Youth organization on charges of treasonable relations with Communist and Marxist organizations
Unpaid Imperial Russian debt to France is argument in French Chamber of Deputies against ratification of Franco-Soviet pact
Roosevelt sends personal lrs to heads of all (Latin Amer govts on plan to consolidate current peace treaties; details withheld
Roosevelt replies to praise of WPA compilation of Amer Guide by L Stancourt, WPA worker
Measure to eliminate married persons' exemption in computing surtaxes on incomes over $10,000 drafted by Treas
Russian Imperial debt used as argument to oppose ratification of Franco-Soviet pact
Discussion on word "asinine" inserted
Bill defining as larceny false representations with regard to property in making a sale defeated in N Y S Assembly
Atty Gen Bennett gets order halting co in distress buying of wage notes
Drukman's father and Detective J P McAuliffe testify
Dr H C Urey pleads for proper distribution of products to those who need them