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hearings on abrogation of 2/3 rule
New motor torpedo boat completed; description
farm leaders resent tentative plank; press for more detailed pledge; can't reach Roosevelt
goes to Wash but returns to convention
Proposes change of Fed ct powers for Dem platform, s to Dem Resolutions Com
1936B. J. Habibie, Indonesian engineer and politician, 3rd President of Indonesia (died 2019)[†]
Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie was an Indonesian politician, engineer and scientist who served as the third president of Indonesia from 1998 to 1999. A little over two months after his inauguration as the seventh vice president in March 1998, he succeeded Suharto, who resigned after 32 years in office, thereby being the country's first vice president to assume the presidency intra-term. Originating from Sulawesi with Bugis-Gorontalese and Javanese ancestry, his presidency was seen as a landmark and transition to the Reform era.
1936Bert Hölldobler, German biologist and entomologist[†]
Berthold Karl Hölldobler BVO is a German zoologist, sociobiologist and evolutionary biologist who studies evolution and social organization in ants. He is the author of several books, including The Ants, for which he and his co-author, E. O. Wilson, received the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction writing in 1991.