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Ernecke found dead, believed suicide; had received threatening lrs; por; defense atty, L J Healy, comments
comment on Roosevelt action
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McNutt asks leave of absence to conduct Pres campaign
Brit mine field extended to cover German Baltic coast
1940Julie Christie, Indian-English actress and activist[†]
Julie Frances Christie is a British actress. Christie's accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has appeared in six films ranked in the British Film Institute's BFI Top 100 British films of the 20th century, and in 1997, she received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement.
1940David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes, English archbishop and academic[†]
David Michael Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes, is a retired Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Wakefield between 1985 and 1991 and the Bishop of London between 1991 and 1995. From 1995 to 2005, he was the Archbishop of York in the Church of England. In March 2005, he was made a life peer and therefore a member of the House of Lords; he had already sat in the house as a Lord Spiritual when he was a bishop. He retired from the Lords in April 2015. He was closeted about his sexuality for much of his ministry and even after a press conference when he outed himself, changed that story afterwards.
1940Richard Thompson, English physician and academic[†]
Sir Richard Paul Hepworth Thompson, is a British physician and past president of the Royal College of Physicians in London.
1940World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway, preceding a larger force which will arrive two days later.[†]
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.