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Brit and French announce mining of 3 areas off Norwegian coast
Controller McGoldrick announces city will take title to BMT system June 1 and issue its securities holders city bonds in exch for corp securities; N Y Stock Exch to list bonds; 12,000 employes to be shifted
Adler, Cyrus
eclipse marred by clouds, N Y area; Dr W H Barton makes Southern observations; illus
1940John Havlicek, American basketball player (died 2019)[†]
John Joseph Havlicek was an American professional basketball player who spent his entire career with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
1940The Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party elects Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal as General Secretary, marking the beginning of his 44-year-long tenure as de facto leader of Mongolia.[†]
The Mongolian People's Party (MPP) is a social democratic political party in Mongolia. It was founded as a communist party in 1920 by Mongolian revolutionaries and is the oldest political party in Mongolia.