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Canadian Sup Ct declares invalid Natural Products Marketing Act of 1934, unanimous decision
Invites friends to eat soup made from turtle named Landon
Reich sea strategy and defense described (Augur)
To head women's div of Repub Eastern campaign
Hitler appts H Himmler chief
1936Denny Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (died 1992)[†]
Denis Clive Hulme was a New Zealand racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1965 to 1974. Nicknamed "the Bear", Hulme won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1967 with Brabham, and won eight Grands Prix across 10 seasons.
1936Ronald Venetiaan, Surinamese politician, 6th President of Suriname[†]
Ronald Runaldo Venetiaan is a Surinamese former politician who served as the sixth president of Suriname.
1936Maxim Gorky, Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright (born 1868)[†]
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer and proponent of socialism. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success as an author, he travelled widely across the Russian Empire, changing jobs frequently; these experiences would later influence his writing. He associated with fellow Russian writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, both mentioned by Gorky in his memoirs.