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Roosevelt allocates sum from emergency defense fund to build merchant ships
RAF bombs Bremen in all-night raid; bombs Emden and Amsterdam oil stores; 1 Brit plane missing; Germans rept on damage; DNB repts RAF bombed 2 Netherlands towns
Australian forces attack Bardia; RAF activity; Ital prisoners and loot captured; Rome repts Bardia attacks repulsed; map
Offers bill to provide death penalty for defense industries sabotage
CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 3 (AP) -- Australian troops storming the Italian fortress of Bardia, Libya, already have taken more than 5,000 prisoners, or one-fourth of the garrison, the British Army Command reported tonight in a special communique.
1941George P. Cosmatos, Italian-Canadian director and screenwriter (died 2005)[†]
George Pan Cosmatos was a Greek-Italian film director and screenwriter. Following early success in his home country with drama films such as Massacre in Rome with Richard Burton, Cosmatos retooled his career towards mainstream "blockbuster" action and adventure films, including The Cassandra Crossing and Escape to Athena, both of which were British-Italian co-productions. After relocating to North America, he directed the horror film Of Unknown Origin. This was followed by some of his best-known work, including the action films Rambo: First Blood Part II and Cobra, the science-fiction horror film Leviathan, and the critically acclaimed Western movie Tombstone.
1941Kalpnath Rai, Indian politician (died 1999)[†]
Kalpnath Rai was an Indian politician. He served as a member of the Rajya Sabha between 1974–80, 1980–86, and 1986–92, as well as being elected on four term occasions to the Lok Sabha from the Ghosi constituency in the state of Uttar Pradesh. 1989-1991-1996-1998. He was a minister in various national Congress (I) governments.
1941Henri Bergson, French philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1859)[†]
Henri-Louis Bergson was a French philosopher who was influential in the traditions of analytic philosophy and continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Second World War, but also after 1966 when Gilles Deleuze published Le Bergsonisme.