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Plea for natl unity read at Amer United Rally
Brit hope Hull will remain
Roosevelt s to crowd on leaving Hyde Pk for Wash
London bombed for 14 hrs; German planes active in Eng and Scotland; Germans claim 23 Brit, 6 German planes lost
A heavy veil of secrecy was flung by both Berlin and London yester day over the fate of a British convoy in mid-Atlantic reported shelled on Tuesday oy a Nazi raider and the fate of the raider, too, understood to be hunted by British warships.
1940Dakin Matthews, American actor, director, and playwright[†]
Melvin Richard "Dakin" Matthews is an American actor, playwright, theatre director, and theatrical scholar. He is best known as Herb Kelcher in My Two Dads (1987–1989), Hanlin Charleston in Gilmore Girls (2000–2007), Joe Heffernan in The King of Queens (1998-2007), and as Reverend Sikes in Desperate Housewives (2004–2012).
1940Antonio Skármeta, Chilean author and academic[†]
Esteban Antonio Skármeta Vranicic was a Chilean writer, screenwriter, and director. His novel Ardiente paciencia was the basis for the film Il Postino. In Chile, he was popularly known for hosting a television show on literature and the arts. He served as Chile’s ambassador to Germany from 2000 to 2003. In 2014, he was awarded the Chilean National Literature Prize.
1940In Tacoma, Washington, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses in a windstorm, a mere four months after the bridge's completion.[†]
Tacoma is a city in and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. A port city, it is situated along the Puget Sound roughly 30 miles (48 km) from Seattle and Olympia, and 58 miles (93 km) northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third-most populous city in the state with a population of 219,346 at the 2020 census. Tacoma is the economic and cultural center of the South Sound region, which has a population of about 1 million.