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Polish, Yugoslav and Rumanian reaction to pledge
Spratly Is discussed as seaplane and naval base
Roosevelt offers to call internatl conf if Hitler and Mussolini will pledge 10-yr peace
Amen inquiry: Bklyn Bar Assn asks for data in Rudich case as 1st step in disbarment proceedings; action follows Amen's statement he will not be criminally prosecuted; I Frosch and wife, parents of A Frosch, indicted for bail bond perjury; ct reserves decision on motion to free Ditchik
Pacts with Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia involving special type of barter signed
1939Ali MacGraw, American model and actress[†]
Elizabeth Alice MacGraw is an American actress. For her role in Goodbye, Columbus (1969) she won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer. She then starred in Love Story (1970), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. In 1972, MacGraw was voted the top female film star in the world and was honored with a hands and footprints ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre after having made just three films. She went on to star in The Getaway (1972), Convoy (1978), Players (1979), Just Tell Me What You Want (1980), and The Winds of War (1983). In 1991, she published an autobiography, Moving Pictures.
1939Phil Niekro, American baseball player and manager (died 2020)[†]
Philip Henry Niekro, nicknamed "Knucksie", was an American baseball pitcher who played 24 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays. Niekro is generally regarded as the greatest knuckleball pitcher of all time.
1939Spanish Civil War: Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.[†]
Generalissimo, also generalissimus, is a military rank of the highest degree, superior to field marshal and other five-star ranks in the states where they are used.