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Willkie-Roosevelt strength, Ohio, Ill, Ind and Mich
LaGuardia makes radio appeal
U S and Canada announce conditional reciprocal agreement for water diversion; Great Lakes to get water from Albany River basin, Canada to get greater Niagara Falls flow; preliminary work to start at once; statements by Premier Hepburn and Prime Min King; text
Lindbergh on needs; text
1940Tommy Bishop, English rugby league player and coach[â ]
Thomas Bishop is an English former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s, and coached in the 1970s and 1980s. He played for Blackpool Borough, Barrow and St Helens in the English Championship, and the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in the New South Wales Rugby League competition in Australia. He also represented Great Britain on several occasions during his career, captaining them on two occasions, his position of choice was as a scrum-half.
1940Peter C. Doherty, Australian surgeon and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate[â ]
Peter Charles Doherty is an Australian immunologist and Nobel laureate.
1940LluĂs Companys, Catalan lawyer and politician, President of Catalonia (born 1882)[â ]
LluĂs Companys i Jover was a Catalan politician who served as president of Catalonia from 1934 and during the Spanish Civil War.
1940President LluĂs Companys of Catalonia is executed by the Francoist government.[â ]
LluĂs Companys i Jover was a Catalan politician who served as president of Catalonia from 1934 and during the Spanish Civil War.