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Red Cross benefit day after closing planned; Ital pavilion closes to honor Vice Adm G Cantu
Local 147 pledges not to picket during ceremonies; will take part in labor reception for Roosevelt
RAF bombs new German big gun on French coast opposite Dover; raids extend from Baltic to Channel, into Ruhr, docks and powerhouses at German ports
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Sends air force officers to study RAF methods
1940Arthur Blessitt, American Christian preacher (died 2025)[†]
Arthur Owen Blessitt was an American traveling Christian preacher who was known for carrying a cross through every nation of the world.
1940John Gotti, American mob boss (died 2002)[†]
John Joseph Gotti Jr. was an American mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. He ordered and helped to orchestrate the murder of Gambino boss Paul Castellano in December 1985 and took over the family shortly thereafter, leading what was described as the most powerful crime syndicate in the United States.
1940Maxine Hong Kingston, American author and academic[†]
Maxine Hong Kingston is an American novelist. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with a B.A. in English in 1962. Kingston has written three novels and several works of non-fiction about the experiences of Chinese Americans.