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Wallace radio s on new appropriations
Arrives in Shanghai after being held by Chinese pirates
Chicago Milwaukee passenger train plunges through bridge, Custer Creek
G F McNaughton, Repub delegate and union official, backs Dewey-Lewis plan
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1938Joan Kirner, Australian educator and politician, 42nd Premier of Victoria (died 2015)[†]
Joan Elizabeth Kirner was an Australian politician who was the 42nd Premier of Victoria, serving from 1990 to 1992. A Labor Party member of the Parliament of Victoria from 1982 to 1994, she was a member of the Legislative Council before later winning a seat in the Legislative Assembly. Kirner was a minister and briefly deputy premier in the government of John Cain Jr., and succeeded him as premier following his resignation. She was Australia's third female head of government and second female premier, Victoria's first, and held the position until her party was defeated in a landslide at the 1992 state election.
1938Mickie Most, English music producer (died 2003)[†]
Michael Peter Hayes, known as Mickie Most, was an English record producer behind acts such as the Animals, Herman's Hermits, the Nashville Teens, Donovan, Lulu, Suzi Quatro, Hot Chocolate, Arrows, Racey and the Jeff Beck Group, often issued on his own RAK Records label.