Germany admitted yesterday that the three-hour British bombing attack on Berlin Wednesday night had taken effect. Eight districts were said to have been hit, with ten dead and twenty-eight injured.

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HOUSE COMMITTEE WIDENS AGE RANGE TO 21-45 FOR DRAFT; Votes 20 to 4 to Report Out Bill Differing From That Passed by the Senate ACTION IN WEEK EXPECTED Leaders Predict Passage by Friday--Plan for Taking Over Factories Strikes Snag

By Frank L. Kluckhohn Special To the New York Times

House com widens draft age limits to 21-45

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Notable Births

1940Jack Biondolillo, American bowler (died 2021)^[†]

Jack Joseph Biondolillo was a professional bowler and member of the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA).

Notable Deaths

1940J. J. Thomson, English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1856)^[†]

Sir Joseph John "J. J." Thomson was a British physicist whose study of cathode rays led to his discovery of the electron, a subatomic particle with a negative electric charge. In 1897, Thomson showed that cathode rays were composed of previously unknown negatively charged particles, which he calculated must have bodies much smaller than atoms and a very large charge-to-mass ratio.

Historical Events

1940The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.^[†]

The Second Vienna Award was the second of two territorial disputes that were arbitrated by Nazi Germany and the Kingdom of Italy. On 30 August 1940, they assigned the territory of Northern Transylvania, including all of Maramureș and part of Crișana, from the Kingdom of Romania to the Kingdom of Hungary.