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Liner missing in Sierras near Fresno; search
Conf with Hitler; por
Rakovsky testifies; asserts Trotskyist interests; Krestinsky pleads guilty; testifies; coup d'etat planned by Gen Tukhasnevsky and 7 gens revealed; Rykov, Chernoff and V I Ivanoff testify; P Scheffer mentioned
World marks: mile, G Cunningham
Aid in Calif flood area
1938Anton Balasingham, Sri Lankan-English negotiator (died 2006)[†]
Anton Balasingham Stanislaus was a Sri Lankan journalist, rebel and chief political strategist and chief negotiator for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a separatist Tamil militant organisation in Sri Lanka.
1938Alpha Condé, Guinean politician, President of Guinea[†]
Alpha Condé is a Guinean politician who served as the fourth president of Guinea from 2010 to 2021. He spent decades in opposition to a succession of regimes in Guinea, unsuccessfully running against then-President Lansana Conté in the 1993 and 1998 presidential elections and leading the Rally of the Guinean People (RPG), an opposition party.
1938Allan Kornblum, American police officer and judge (died 2010)[†]
Allan Nathaniel Kornblum was a United States federal judge and authored key parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. During his career he also served as an adviser to the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, an FBI agent, a Treasury agent, a New York City Police officer, Director of Security for Princeton University, and an officer in the U.S. Army.
1938Don Perkins, American football player and sportscaster (died 2022)[†]
Donald Anthony Perkins was an American professional football player who was a fullback in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at the University of New Mexico.
1938Paula Prentiss, American actress[†]
Paula Prentiss is an American actress. She is best known for her film roles in Where the Boys Are (1960), Man's Favorite Sport? (1964), What's New Pussycat? (1965), Catch-22 (1970), The Parallax View (1974), and The Stepford Wives (1975).
1938Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish academic and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs[†]
Adam Daniel Rotfeld is a Polish researcher, diplomat, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland from 5 January 2005 until 31 October 2005 when a change of government took place. He served earlier as the deputy foreign minister. While in that position, Rotfeld established the Warsaw Reflection Group on the UN Reform and the Transformation of the Euro-Atlantic Security Institutions, with participation from leading US and European experts and politicians.
1938George Foster Peabody, American banker and philanthropist (born 1852)[†]
George Foster Peabody was an American banker and philanthropist.
1938Jack Taylor, American baseball player (born 1874)[†]
John W. Taylor was a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals.