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Heads com named by Roosevel't to draw up natl power policy
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conf praised by W Runciman
Suicide; 4 felled by fumes in recovering body
Insurgents capture Marbella, continue advance toward Malaga; Soviet Consul Gen in Malaga leaves for Valencia; comment on Madrid front stalemate; decision on U S Embassy in Madrid left to E C Wendelin; Rebel artillery bombardment on capital renewed; Insurgent ship at Barcelona routed by coastal guns
1937Princess Birgitta of Sweden (died 2024)[â ]
Princess Birgitta of Sweden was a member of the Swedish royal family. She was the second child of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and an elder sister of King Carl XVI Gustaf.
1937John Lions, Australian computer scientist and academic (died 1998)[â ]
John Lions was an Australian computer scientist. He is best known as the author of Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code, commonly known as the Lions Book.
1937Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.[â ]
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, and investor. He was one of the richest and most influential people in the world during his lifetime. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an important figure in the aviation industry. Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyleâoddities that were caused in part by his worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain from a near-fatal plane crash, and increasing deafness.