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United Mine Workers of Amer officers authorized to oust Green; J P Frey also condemned; former charges "Hitlerism,"
confers with Cong; repts response to plans
statement upheld by L W Douglas
Mentioned in article by L Trotsky as witness to prove his presence in France in July 1933
At London non-intervention com meeting, makes proposals to break deadlock on Spanish issue (F T Birchall)
1937Paul Bailey, British novelist, critic, and biographer[†]
Peter Harry "Paul" Bailey was an English novelist and critic, as well as a biographer of Cynthia Payne and Quentin Crisp.
1937Valentin Bondarenko, Soviet aviator and cosmonaut (died 1961)[†]
Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko was a Soviet fighter pilot selected in 1960 for training as a cosmonaut. He died as the result of burns sustained in a fire during a 15-day low-pressure endurance experiment in Moscow. The Soviet government concealed the death, along with Bondarenko's membership in the cosmonaut corps, until 1980. A crater on the Moon's far side is named after him.
1937Yuri Manin, Russian-German mathematician and academic (died 2023)[†]
Yuri Ivanovich Manin was a Russian mathematician, known for work in algebraic geometry and diophantine geometry, and many expository works ranging from mathematical logic to theoretical physics.
1937Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.[†]
Wallace Hume Carothers was an American chemist, inventor, and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, who was credited with the invention of nylon.