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he and 3 employes testify concerning 1932 raid and dismissal of case
C E Lent, auditor, held on charge of taking bribe from P Wollerstein, Modern Trucking Co proprietor; Erenburg sentenced
Views on Monroe Doctrine cited
Arabs and troops battle, Hebron and Nablus; map; Moslems in Egypt aroused
com votes to hand evidence to Atty Gen Cummings
1938Jean-Loup ChrĂ©tien, French military officer and astronaut[â ]
Jean-Loup Jacques Marie Chrétien is a French retired Général de Brigade in the Armée de l'Air, and a former CNES spationaut. He flew on two Franco-Soviet space missions and a NASA Space Shuttle mission. Chrétien was the first Frenchman and the first western European in space.
1938Peter Day, English chemist and academic (died 2020)[â ]
Peter Day, FRS, FRSC, FInstP was a British inorganic chemist and Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University and later at University College London (UCL).
1938Alain Vivien, French politician[â ]
Alain Vivien is a French Socialist Party (PS) politician, best known for chairing (1998â2002) the French Mission InterministĂ©rielle pour la Lutte contre les Sectes, MILS, a ministerial organization designed to observe the activities of various religious organizations defined as "Sectes" (cults).
1938Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.[â ]
Henry Louis Gehrig, born Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig, was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees (1923â1939). Gehrig was renowned for his prowess as a hitter and for his durability, which earned him the nickname "the Iron Horse", and he is regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Gehrig was an All-Star seven consecutive times, a Triple Crown winner once, an American League (AL) Most Valuable Player twice and a member of six World Series champion teams. He had a career .340 batting average, .632 slugging average, and a .447 on-base average. He hit 493 home runs and had 1,995 runs batted in (RBIs). He is also one of 21 players to hit four home runs in a single game. In 1939, Gehrig was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and was the first MLB player to have his uniform number retired by a team when his number 4 was retired by the Yankees.