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The stock market marked the final short session of the year by effectively consolidating its gains of Friday and even pushing fractionally higher in the heaviest Saturday trading in more than a month.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 28-- A great team of Northern all-stars, flashing power in every department, scored a 14-12 victory over the South before 14,000 fans today in a mist-dampened football game, the third in Montgomery's BlueGray rivalry.
1940Fred Hansen, American pole vaulter[†]
Frederick Morgan Hansen is an American former athlete who competed mainly in the pole vault.
1940Stephen Birch, American businessman (born 1873)[†]
Stephen Birch was an American mining executive who served as president of the Kennecott Copper Company, and would eventually control a major share of the world's copper production.
1940In the Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, England, killing almost 200 civilians during World War II.[†]
The Second Great Fire of London in December 1940 was caused by one of the most destructive air raids of the Blitz during World War II. The Luftwaffe raid caused fires over an area greater than that of the Great Fire of London in 1666, leading one American correspondent to say in a cable to his office that "The second Great Fire of London has begun". Fires started by the raid included an incendiary bomb that broke through the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, which was being guarded by a fire watch team at the behest of the Prime Minister Winston Churchill.