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Overcoming a faulty, lackadaisical start, for which both teams were equally to blame, St. John's and Fordham staged an intracity basketball thriller that resulted in a 51-46 victory for the Brooklyn Redmen before 2,500 persons in the Maroon gymnasium last night.
In the Mediterranean's gray dawn a star shell burst. It was 7:12 A.M. on Jan. 10, and a British destroyer accompanying a convoy had sighted two Italian destroyers. Battle was joined. At 8:13 one Italian destroyer went down in a smother of foam; the other escaped.
New Decade Mardi Gras and Ball plans, N Y C
denies it means policing world
Despite disturbed international conditions and difficulties in obtaining satisfactory new investments, the net rate of interest earnings in 1940 was 3.69 per cent, against 3.71 per cent in 1939 and 1938, Elbert S. Brigham, president of the National Life Insurance Company, Montpelier, Vt., said in his report to policy holders.
1941Tony Anholt, British actor (died 2002)[†]
Anthony Anholt, was a British television actor, known for several television roles over several decades. He is perhaps best known as Charles Frere in the BBC drama series Howards' Way (1985–90).
1941Colin Gunton, English theologian and academic (died 2003)[†]
Colin Ewart Gunton was an English Reformed systematic theologian. He made contributions to the doctrine of creation and the doctrine of the Trinity. He was Professor of Christian Doctrine at King's College, London, from 1984 and co-founder with Christoph Schwoebel of the Research Institute for Systematic Theology in 1988. Gunton was actively involved in the United Reformed Church in the United Kingdom where he had been a minister since 1972.
1941Pat Patterson, Canadian wrestler, trainer, and referee (died 2020)[†]
Pat Patterson was a Canadian-American professional wrestler and producer, widely known for his long tenure in the professional wrestling promotion WWE, first as a wrestler, then as a creative consultant and producer, or agent. He is recognized by the company as their first Intercontinental Champion and creator of the Royal Rumble match. He was inducted into the WWF Hall of Fame as part of the class of 1996.
1941World War II: HMS Greyhound and other escorts of convoy AS-12 sink Italian submarine Neghelli with all hands 64 kilometres (40 mi) northeast of Falkonera.[†]
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.