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Dr P Zinner explains that unofficial Cath Action in Rome suggested changes
Roosevelt to attend Oct 2
ships warned; Red Cross ready to act
ready for Lakehurst flight after alterations; to carry 1,000th passenger
ELVAS, Portugal, Sept. 16. -- The Madrid government declared today that the junction village of Maqueda, the key to Toledo and Madrid, must be the Verdun of the Spanish revolt as Loyalist reinforcements rushed to that sector slowed down the advance of General Francisco Franco's Foreign Legion and Moors.
1936Gerald Guralnik, American physicist and academic (died 2014)[†]
Gerald Stanford "Gerry" Guralnik was the Chancellor’s Professor of Physics at Brown University. In 1964, he co-discovered the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson with C. R. Hagen and Tom Kibble (GHK). As part of Physical Review Letters' 50th anniversary celebration, the journal recognized this discovery as one of the milestone papers in PRL history. While widely considered to have authored the most complete of the early papers on the Higgs theory, GHK were controversially not included in the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1936Michael Hennagin, American composer and educator (died 1993)[†]
Michael Hennagin was an American composer and university professor.
1936Ettie Annie Rout, New Zealand author and activist (born 1877)[†]
Ettie Annie Rout was a Tasmanian-born New Zealander whose work among servicemen in Paris and the Somme during World War I made her a war hero among the French, yet through the same events she became persona non grata in New Zealand. She married Frederick Hornibrook on 3 May 1920, after which she was Ettie Hornibrook. They had no children and later separated. She died in 1936, and was buried in the Cook Islands.