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Testifies, Sen com hearing on excess profits tax bill
Brit claim 54 German, 11 Brit planes downed; London has 3 alarms; Germans claim 54 Brit, 15 German planes downed in attacks on airports; rept attacks on harbors and naval bases with heaviest raids on Bristol and Rochester
Brit long-range guns bombard French coast
Rumanian policy changes expected as Gen Antonescu replaces Gigurtu as Premier; former known to be pro-Brit and anti-USSR; conf with German and Ital Mins; gives assurances Vienna conf decisions will be carried out; crisis halts Rumanian-Bulgarian conf; anti-German demonstrations reptd, Timisoara
Has fewer than 300 1st-line combat planes
1940Valerie Howarth, Baroness Howarth of Breckland, English politician[†]
Valerie Georgina Howarth, Baroness Howarth of Breckland, was a British social worker, first chief executive of Childline, child and adult welfare advocate and a crossbench member of the House of Lords.
1940Raquel Welch, American actress and singer (died 2023)[†]
Jo Raquel Welch was an American actress. Welch first gained attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she signed a long-term contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her contract to the British studio Hammer Film Productions, for whom she made One Million Years B.C. (1966). Although Welch had only three lines of dialogue in the film, images of her in the doe-skin bikini became bestselling posters that turned her into an international sex symbol. She later starred in Bedazzled (1967), Bandolero! (1968), 100 Rifles (1969), Myra Breckinridge (1970), Hannie Caulder (1971), Kansas City Bomber (1972), The Last of Sheila (1973), The Three Musketeers (1973), The Wild Party (1975), and Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976). She made several television variety specials.