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Returns from vacation
Runs for Sheriff, Warren Co
Roosevelt scores press stories linking purge with bridge bldg plans
Pecora transfers case against Hines and 5 others indicted in May to Gen Sessions; refuses to transfer sentencing of 3
Repub resentment against Labor coalition policy evident in primary results; re-elected to Repub State Com by close margin
1938Doug Moe, American basketball player and coach[ā ]
Douglas Edwin Moe is an American former professional basketball player and coach. As a head coach with the Denver Nuggets in the National Basketball Association (NBA), he was named the NBA Coach of the Year in 1988.
1938Olu Falae, Nigerian politician and government official[ā ]
Chief Samuel Oluyemisi Falae, is a Nigerian banker, administrator and politician who was secretary to the military government of Ibrahim Babangida from January 1986 to December 1990, and briefly the Finance Minister in 1990. He ran for president in Nigeria's Third and Fourth Republics
1938Ivana BrliÄ-MažuraniÄ, Croatian author and poet (born 1874)[ā ]
Ivana BrliÄ-MažuraniÄ, also spelled Ivana Berlic-Mazuranic in English, was a Croatian writer. She has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.
1938The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500ā700 people.[ā ]
The 1938 New England Hurricane was one of the deadliest and most destructive tropical cyclones to strike the United States. The storm formed near the coast of Africa on September 9, becoming a Category 5 hurricane on the SaffirāSimpson hurricane scale, before making landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on Long Island on Wednesday, September 21. It is estimated that the hurricane killed 682 people, damaged or destroyed more than 57,000 homes and caused property losses estimated at $306 million. Also, numerous others estimate the real damage between $347 million and almost $410 million. Damaged trees and buildings were still seen in the affected areas as late as 1951. It remains the most powerful and deadliest hurricane to ever strike New York State and New England in history, perhaps eclipsed in landfall intensity only by the Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635.