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Germans claim 94 Brit, 26 German planes downed
Jr Bar Conf; defense participation discussed; P F Hannah on pub information radio program
destruction described
arrives, Lugano, Switzerland
German radio claims super-weight bombs dropped on London
1940Hugh Morgan, Australian businessman[†]
Hugh Matheson Morgan, is an Australian businessman and former CEO of Western Mining Corporation. He was President of the Business Council of Australia from 2003 to 2005. The Howard government appointed him to the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia in 1996, where he remained until 2007. He also was the Founding Chairman of Asia Society Australia.
1940Joe Negroni, American doo-wop singer (died 1978)[†]
Jose Negroni was an American singer of Puerto Rican descent. He was a rock and roll pioneer and founding member of the rock and roll group Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers.
1940George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.[†]
George Robert Stibitz was an American researcher at Bell Labs who is internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern digital computer. He was known for his work in the 1930s and 1940s on the realization of Boolean logic digital circuits using electromechanical relays as the switching element.
1940Treznea Massacre in Transylvania.[†]
The Treznea massacre occurred in the village of Treznea, Sălaj in north-western Transylvania on 9 September 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Second Vienna Award, when Romania ceded Northern Transylvania to Hungary. The massacre was perpetrated by Hungarian Army troops with aid from some locals; 93 ethnic Romanians and Jews were killed.