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Roosevelt and C F Adams urge private charity to maintain natl morale
Willkie campaign plans
Japanese mission awaited; map
Morgenthau replies; J W Hanes comments
Repr R O Woodruff charges close tie between personnel and N Y Daily Worker (Communist pub)
1940Perrie Mans, South African snooker player (died 2023)[†]
Pierre "Perrie" Mans was a South African professional snooker player. He first won the South African Professional Championship in 1965 and lifted the title 20 times. Mans won the Benson & Hedges Masters in 1979 and reached the final of the World Championship in 1978.
1940Cliff Richard, Indian-English singer-songwriter and actor[†]
Sir Cliff Richard is a British singer and actor. He has total sales of over 21.5 million singles in the United Kingdom and, as of 2012, was the third-top-selling artist in UK singles chart history, behind the Beatles and Elvis Presley.
1940J. C. Snead, American golfer[†]
Jesse Carlyle Snead was an American professional golfer who won tournaments on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour. Snead was the nephew of hall of famer Sam Snead.
1940Christopher Timothy, Welsh actor, director, and screenwriter[†]
Christopher Timothy is a British actor and narrator. He is known for his roles as James Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small, Mac McGuire in the BBC One daytime soap opera Doctors and Ted Murray in the BBC One primetime soap opera EastEnders.
1940World War II: The Balham underground station disaster kills sixty-six people during the London Blitz.[†]
Balham is an interchange station located in central Balham in the London Borough of Wandsworth, south west London for London Underground and National Rail services.