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German planes bomb different parts of Brit
Amer Labor party split may affect election; right-wing group plans to back Sen Mead for renomination; foes would name independent
at Colorado Springs
Japanese arrest 11 Brit business men; Amb Craigie will ask for Cox release; says arrests will be subject for diplomatic representations
1940Betty Harris, American chemist[â ]
Betty Wright Harris is an American chemist. She is known for her work on the chemistry of explosives completed at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She patented a spot test for detecting 1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene (TATB) in the field, which is used by the Federal Department of Homeland Security to screen for nitroaromatic explosives.
1940Winnie Monsod, Filipina economist and political commentator[â ]
Solita Garduño Collås-Monsod, popularly known as Mareng Winnie, is a Filipino economist, broadcaster, columnist, radio host, and public intellectual. She had been the 5th Director-General of the National Economic and Development Authority and concurrently socio-economic planning secretary of the Philippines from 1986 to 1989.