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Birth of son reptd
Black-Connery bills introduced
Dates announced for War Min von Blomberg's visit to Rome
To the Congress of the United States: The time has arrived for us to take further action to extend the frontiers of social progress. Such further action initiated by the legislative branch of the government, administered by the Executive and sustained by the judicial is within the common sense framework and purpose of our Constitution and receives beyond doubt the approval of our electorate.
1937Tom Phillips, English painter and academic (died 2022)[†]
Trevor Thomas Phillips was an English visual artist. He worked as a painter, printmaker and collagist.
1937Henry Ossawa Tanner, American-French painter and illustrator (born 1859)[†]
Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American artist who spent much of his career in France. He became the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris, France, in 1891 to study at the Académie Julian and gained acclaim in French artistic circles. In 1923, the French government elected Tanner chevalier of the Legion of Honor.