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Troppau border quiet
rivals press last-min appeals; both confident; other primary battles
Pecora weighs mistrial decision; studies Dewey memorandum defending poultry racket question and conf with Dewey's aides; to get Stryker memorandum
Bombs shatter shop windows, N Y C; laid to labor trouble
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1938Judy Clay, American soul and gospel singer (died 2001)[†]
Judy Clay was an American soul and gospel singer, who achieved greatest success as a member of two recording duos in the 1960s.
1938Claude Ruel, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2015)[†]
Claude Ruel was a professional ice hockey coach for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL).
1938Tatiana Troyanos, American operatic soprano (died 1993)[†]
Tatiana Troyanos was an American mezzo-soprano remembered as "one of the defining singers of her generation". Her voice, "a paradoxical voice — larger than life yet intensely human, brilliant yet warm, lyric yet dramatic" — "was the kind you recognize after one bar, and never forget", wrote Cori Ellison in Opera News.
1938Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.[†]
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi period from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. His invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 marked the outbreak of the Second World War. Throughout his leadership in the ensuing conflict, he was closely involved in the direction of German military operations and the perpetration of the Holocaust—the genocide of about six million Jews and millions of other victims.