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January 24, 1941

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Headlines from January 24, 1941

JAPANESE SHOOTS A BRITISH OFFICIAL IN SHANGHAI ROW; Also Wounds Two Countrymen in a Rage at Higher Taxes Asked at Public Meeting 5,000 AT SESSION LOOK ON U.S. Member of the Municipal Council Hit by Chair After Bullets Fell Chairman

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

W J Keswick, Brit chmn of Internatl Settlement Munic Council, and 2 Japanese councillors shot by Y Hayashi, Japanese Taxpayers Assn chmn and Amalgamated Japanese St Unions pres, at tax plan meeting, Shanghai; Brit and U S members request council meeting with Japanese guarantees of order; Hayashi held; Japanese delegation apologizes to Keswick

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Extra Policemen on Guard; JAPANESE SHOOTS A BRITISH OFFICIAL

By Unknown Author

SHANGHAI, Friday, Jan. 24 (UP) -- Extra policemen were on duty throughout the International Settlement today after a quarrel between British and United States members of the Municipal Council and Japanese that resulted in the shooting of W.J. Keswick, British chairman of the Council; O. Okamoto, a Japanese member, and K. Ikeda, the Council's Japanese secretary.

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Notable Births

Neil Diamond

1941Neil Diamond, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]

Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time.

Aaron Neville

1941Aaron Neville, American singer[†]

Aaron Joseph Neville is an American singer renowned for his distinctively smooth, vibrato-heavy tenor and a genre-crossing career that spans R&B, soul, gospel, jazz, country, and pop. He gained national prominence with his 1966 single "Tell It Like It Is", which reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. 

Dan Shechtman

1941Dan Shechtman, Israeli chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]

Dan Shechtman is the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, an Associate of the US Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory, and Professor of Materials Science at Iowa State University. On April 8, 1982, while on sabbatical at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., Shechtman discovered the icosahedral phase, which opened the new field of quasiperiodic crystals, also referred to as "quasicrystals."