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estimates show increase; statement by Viscount Monsell (F Kuhn Jr)
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Defeated by Roosevelt in Seminole County, Ga, preferential Pres primary
Sen recommits bill to cut exemptions from duty
10,000,000-acre cut planned; division of benefit payments among landlords, tenants and sharecroppers; leaders gather in Memphis for conf
1936Canaan Banana, Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (died 2003)[†]
Canaan Sodindo Banana was a Zimbabwean Methodist minister, theologian, and politician who served as the first President of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987. He was Zimbabwe's first head of state, a ceremonial president, after the Lancaster House Agreement that led to the country's independence. In 1987, he stepped down as president and was succeeded by Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, who became the country's executive president. In 1997, Banana was accused of being a homosexual, and after a highly publicised trial, was convicted of 11 counts of sodomy and "unnatural acts", serving six months in prison.
1936Dale Douglass, American golfer (died 2022)[†]
Dale Dwight Douglass was an American professional golfer who won tournaments at both the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour level.
1936Dean Stockwell, American actor (died 2021)[†]
Robert Dean Stockwell was an American actor, whose career in film and television spanned seven decades. As a child actor under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he appeared in Anchors Aweigh (1945), Song of the Thin Man (1947), The Green Years (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), The Boy with Green Hair (1948), The Secret Garden (1949), and Kim (1950). As a young adult, he played a lead role in the 1957 Broadway play Compulsion and its 1959 film version; and in 1962 he played Edmund Tyrone in the film version of Long Day's Journey into Night, for which he won two Best Actor Awards at the Cannes Film Festival. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for his starring role in the 1960 film version of D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers.