Peter Kenneth Gethin was a British racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1970 to 1974. Gethin won the 1971 Italian Grand Prix with BRM.

1940John Lewis, American activist and politician (died 2020)^[†]

John Robert Lewis was an American civil rights activist and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. He participated in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins and the Freedom Rides, was the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966, and was one of the "Big Six" leaders of groups who organized the 1963 March on Washington. Fulfilling many key roles in the civil rights movement and its actions to end legalized racial segregation in the United States, in 1965 Lewis led the first of three Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge where, in an incident that became known as Bloody Sunday, state troopers and police attacked Lewis and the other marchers.

Headlines from February 21, 1940

Fire Destroys Most of Cole Brothers' Circus; Caged Animals Perish in Indiana Quarters

SUSPECT IS SEIZED IN GEERY TRAGEDY; Identified in the Slugging of Logan and Associate, Who Committed Suicide

The International Situation

NLRB ROUNDED UP LIST OF WITNESSES TO BACK LABOR ACT; Sought Testimony to Oppose A.F.L. Amendments Before the Senate Committee LAWYERS DETAILED TO JOB Letters Put in House Hearing Record Show 175 Prospects --18 Willing to Appear

LOUISIANA OUSTS THE LONG MACHINE; JONES 20,000 AHEAD; FIRST TREND UPSET New Orleans Lead for Governor Overcome by Rural Returns SCANDALS STRONG FACTOR Reform Drive Bolstered by Federal Inquiries--Few Clashes at Polls

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