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1940Kenneth Clarke, English politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain[†]
Kenneth Harry Clarke, Baron Clarke of Nottingham is a British politician who served as Home Secretary from 1992 to 1993 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1993 to 1997. A member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Rushcliffe from 1970 to 2019, serving as Father of the House of Commons between 2017 and 2019.
1940Georgi Ivanov, Bulgarian military officer, cosmonaut and politician[†]
Major general Georgi Ivanov Kakalov is a Bulgarian former military officer who was the first Bulgarian cosmonaut. He was a member of the National Assembly of Bulgaria in 1990.
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returning U S residents halted at border pending residence or citizenship proof
Hungarian officials and Axis powers reptd disturbed by USSR overstepping of agreed limits
W L Willkie to quit corp posts
French surrender effect on Japan foreign relations
Orders: navy contracts
Hungary masses troops, Transylvania border
Roosevelt asks steeply graded excess profits tax, message to Cong; Morgenthau and Cong leaders conf; World War tax and Roosevelt May fireside chat recalled
riot reptd, Galati
RAF claims several German planes downed
Brit Information Ministry denies rumors of German troop and parachutist landings in West Midlands
Bill on uniform procedure in criminal trials signed
bill to curb activities of Communist party, Bund and other organizations passed by House