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Wagner bill for U S Mediation Bd offered
USSR repts taking 3 towns on Gulf of Finland and isolating Koivisto fort; map; Finns rept pressure eased; call more men; rept killing 2,000 Russians on central eastern front
Flier repts Chinese within 1 mi of Nanning and Japanese troops moving south with city still garrisoned; Japanese forces land near Amoy and Kwangchow; deny Nanning evacuation repts; bomb Yunnan Ry; map
Somervell makes 1939 rept; chart
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1940Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmen engineer and politician, 1st President of Turkmenistan (died 2006)[†]
Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov was a Turkmen politician and dictator who led Turkmenistan from 1985 until his death in 2006. He was the first secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan from 1985 until 1991 and supported the 1991 Soviet coup attempt. He continued to rule Turkmenistan as the first president for 15 years after independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
1940Smokey Robinson, American singer-songwriter and producer[†]
William "Smokey" Robinson Jr. is an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. He was the founder and frontman of the pioneering Motown vocal group the Miracles, for which he was also chief songwriter and producer. He led the group from its 1955 origins, when they were called the Five Chimes, until 1972, when he retired from the group to focus on his role as Motown Records vice president. Robinson returned to the music industry as a solo artist the following year. He left Motown in 1999.
1940Bobby Rogers, American singer-songwriter (died 2013)[†]
Robert Edward Rogers was an American musician and tenor singer, best known as a founding member of Motown vocal group the Miracles from 1956 until his death. He was inducted, in 2012, as a member of the Miracles to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to singing, he also contributed to writing some of the Miracles' songs. Rogers is the grandfather of R&B singer Brandi Williams from the R&B girl group Blaque and is a cousin of fellow Miracles member Claudette Rogers Robinson.