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Prime Min Chamberlain pledges real aid to Finland
Boot and Shoe Workers Union (AFL) and United Shoe Workers of Amer (CIO) rejected 5 to 1 in NLRB poll; G W Johnson asks no demonstration; labor leaders threaten appeal
RAF in France united under him subject to Viscount Gort's orders
1940Godfrey Hewitt, English geneticist and academic (died 2013)[†]
Godfrey Matthew Hewitt was a British professor and evolutionary geneticist at the University of East Anglia who was very influential in the development of the fields of molecular ecology, phylogeography, speciation and hybridisation.
1940K. J. Yesudas, Indian singer and music director[†]
Kattassery Joseph Yesudas is an Indian playback singer and musician who sings Indian classical, devotional and film songs. He is widely considered one of the greatest singers in the history of Indian music and a cultural icon of Kerala. In a career spanning six decades, Yesudas is estimated to have recorded more than 50,000 songs in various Indian languages, including Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Tulu, Hindi, Odia, Bengali, Marathi as well as in Arabic, English, Latin, and Russian. He is referred to by the epithet Gaanagandharvan in reverence for his sweet, ethereal voice. Yesudas holds the world record for singing and recording 16 new songs in different languages in a single day. He has also composed a number of Malayalam film songs during the 1970s and 1980s.