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Sen adopts rept
Opposes tax on govt bonds
Cloudburst, eastern Ky; deaths; damage; relief rushed; survivors accounts
comment by Sens McCarran, Pittman and others
1939Jet Harris, English bass player (died 2011)[â ]
Terence "Jet" Harris was an English rock and roll musician. He was an original member of Cliff Richard's backing band the Shadows, serving as the bass guitarist from the group's inception until April 1962, after which he had success as a soloist and as a duo with that band's drummer Tony Meehan.
1939Mary Peters, English-Irish pentathlete and shot putter[â ]
Lady Mary Elizabeth Peters is a Northern Irish former athlete and athletics administrator. She is best known as the 1972 Olympic champion in the pentathlon, for which she won the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. Peters was named as Lady Companion of the Order of the Garter on 27 February 2019. She was installed in St. George's Chapel, the chapel of the Order, on Garter Day, 17 June.
1939Bruce Hunter, American swimmer (died 2018)[â ]
Richard Bruce Hunter was an American competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Hunter swam in the men's 100-meter freestyle, advanced to the finals, and finished fourth overall with a time of 55.6 seconds. He would earn an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1974.
1939GĂ©rard Bourgoin, French sports executive, president of AJ Auxerre (2011â2013) and (Ligue de Football Professionnel) (died 2025)[â ]
GĂ©rard Bourgoin was a French businessman, sports chairman and politician. He was the president of the French football club AJ Auxerre from 24 May 2011 to 19 April 2013.
1939Anti-Jewish legislation in prewar Nazi Germany closes the last remaining Jewish enterprises.[â ]
Anti-Jewish legislation in pre-war Nazi Germany comprised several laws that segregated the Jews from German society and restricted Jewish people's political, legal and civil rights. Major legislative initiatives included a series of restrictive laws passed in 1933, the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, and a final wave of legislation preceding Germany's entry into World War II.