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1941Ron Hunt, American baseball player[†]
Ronald Kenneth (Ron) Hunt is an American former professional baseball second baseman. He played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1963 to 1974 for the New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants, Montreal Expos and St. Louis Cardinals. He batted and threw right-handed.
1941Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.[†]
Plutonium is a chemical element; it has symbol Pu and atomic number 94. It is a silvery-gray actinide metal that tarnishes when exposed to air, and forms a dull coating when oxidized. The element normally exhibits six allotropes and four oxidation states. It reacts with carbon, halogens, nitrogen, silicon, and hydrogen. When exposed to moist air, it forms oxides and hydrides that can expand the sample up to 70% in volume, which in turn flake off as a powder that is pyrophoric. It is radioactive and can accumulate in bones, which makes the handling of plutonium dangerous.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y., Feb. 22 -- New York University suffered its fourth basketball defeat of the season when Syracuse scored a 48-to-46 victory tonight in a sensationally-played game. The victory evened matters for the Orange, which had lost to the Violets in New York two months ago.
ARCADIA, Calif., Feb. 22 -- Challedon ran seventh as Mioland raced to victory today in the $10,000 added San Antonio Handicap against a crack field of eligibles for next Saturday's $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap.
MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 22 -- A head on the post decided the issue at Hialeah Park today in the $26,250 Flamingo Stakes, run before Florida's greatest race crowd, 29,541 persons, who watched the King Ranch's Dispose outlast Curious Coin in the nine-furlong event.
Projects arranged to alleviate suffering among war refugees in China are enlisting the support of several organizations and committees composed of men and women of prominence. Three events in behalf of this cause will take place here within the near future.
U S Min Earle struck by German in Sofia restaurant
IS murder a comic topic? Some theatregoers are seasoning their enjoyment of "Arsenic and Old Lace" and "Mr. and Mrs. North" by asking themselves that ethical question. For "Arsenic and Old Lace" regards poisoning as nothing more than a regrettable foible, and "Mr. and Mrs. North" looks upon assassination as a startling interruption in the affable social life of a Greenwich Village couple.