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Submits proposal of 5% levy on business profits over £2,000 a yr to Commons (P Kuhn Jr)
Warned of unsatisfactory conditions in auto industry
Amnesty granted to pol prisoners in honor of birth of Crown Prince
Mayor Shields asks aid in causing Lewis to withdraw outsiders from Bethlehem strike, Johnstown; White House silent
held for trial on charge of violating Nazi ban on reading names of members who left ch
1937Peter Fitzgerald, Irish footballer and manager (died 2013)[†]
Peter Joseph Fitzgerald was an Irish professional footballer who played as a forward.
1937Ted Nelson, American sociologist and philosopher[†]
Theodor Holm Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher of computer science, and sociologist. He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963 and published them in 1965. According to his profile published in Forbes in 1997, Nelson "sees himself as a literary romantic, like a Cyrano de Bergerac, or 'the Orson Welles of software'."
1937Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian fashion designer, television presenter and politician (died 2009)[†]
Clodovil Hernandes was a Brazilian fashion designer, television presenter, and politician.