William Thomas Medley is an American singer best known as one-half of the Righteous Brothers. He is noted for his bass-baritone voice, exemplified in songs such as "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'". Medley produced a number of the duo's songs, including "Unchained Melody" and "(You're My) Soul and Inspiration".

1940Zandra Rhodes, English fashion designer, founded the Fashion and Textile Museum^[†]

Dame Zandra Lindsey Rhodes, is an English fashion and textile designer. Her early education in fashion set the foundation for a career in the industry creating textile prints. Rhodes has designed garments for Diana, Princess of Wales, and numerous celebrities such as rock stars Freddie Mercury and Marc Bolan. She has also designed textiles for interiors, featuring her prints on furniture and homewares. In 2003 Rhodes founded the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.

1940Paul Williams, American singer-songwriter and actor^[†]

Paul Hamilton Williams Jr. is an American composer, singer, songwriter, and actor. He is known for writing and co-writing popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s, including Three Dog Night's "An Old Fashioned Love Song" and "Out in the Country", Helen Reddy's "You and Me Against the World", Biff Rose's "Fill Your Heart", and the Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun" and "Rainy Days and Mondays". He also wrote "Cried Like a Baby" for teen idol Bobby Sherman.

Historical Events

1940World War II: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp to gather and smuggle out information for the resistance movement.^[†]

Witold Pilecki, known by the codenames Roman Jezierski, Tomasz Serafiński, Druh and Witold, was a Polish World War II cavalry officer, intelligence agent, and resistance leader.

Headlines from September 19, 1940

WILLKIE 'UNSTABLE,' FLYNN DECLARES; He Is 'Emotionally' Unfit to Be President in Crisis, Says Democratic Chairman

The International Situation

DRAFT PERCENTAGE HIGH IN THIS AREA; Probably Will Be Next to Top in Nation Owing to Low Recruiting Record

ROME PARLEY TODAY; Ribbentrop's Talk With Mussolini Turns Upon Madrid's Axis Place BERLIN PLAYS UP MEETING Asserts It Foretells 'England's Collapse' and Will Solve Related 'Problems'

Whole Blocks of London Homes Obliterated, Say Nazis, Boasting of 'Superweight' Bombs; BLOCKS IN LONDON BLASTED, SAY NAZIS

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