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October 30, 1937

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Claude Lelouch

1937Claude Lelouch, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter[โ€ ]

Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained critical acclaim for his 1966 romantic melodrama film A Man and A Woman. At the 39th Academy Awards in 1967, A Man and a Woman won Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film. Lelouch was also nominated for Best Director. While his films have gained him international recognition since the 1960s, Lelouch's methods and style of film are known for attracting criticism.

Brian Price (rugby union)

1937Brian Price, Welsh rugby player (died 2023)[โ€ ]

Brian Price was a Wales international rugby union player. Price first played international rugby for Wales in 1961 after impressing in the Barbarians squad against South Africa. He was selected for the 1966 British Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand playing in all four tests, and spent the majority of his career playing at club level for Newport. A teacher by profession he later became a journalist and sports presenter for radio and television. In 2006 he became President of the Former Player Association.

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JAPANESE SHELL FOREIGNERS IN SHANGHAI, KILLING BRITONS; THREATEN TO WIDEN ATTACK; CITY IN GREAT PERIL

By Hallett Abend

3 Brit soldiers killed and civilians wounded as Japanese shell western part of Internatl Settlement; Japanese apologize after Brit and French protest; French Concession endangered by threatened attack on Nantao; 7th Day Adventist Hosp, Hungjao Road, evacuated as danger increases; Japanese give final warning to Chinese suicide detachment on Chapei border; Amer missions, Sungkiang, damaged; Japanese planes bomb Sungkiang, Soochow, Nansiang, and other cities

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