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German troops move south from Rumania to Bulgarian border
Merchant Marine work wk raised to 54 hrs
Bethlehem Steel Corp: at Buffalo, strike ends; OPM formula accepted; details
Death, Rome; Spain allows burial in Escorial royal pantheon; Generalissimo Franco orders mourning
Belgrade sources rept conf between Premier Filoff, King Boris and USSR, Turkish and Ital Mins to Bulgaria
1941Robert Hass, American poet[†]
Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005. In 2014 he was awarded the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.
1941Dave Marcis, American stock car racing driver[†]
David Alan Marcis is an American former professional stock car racing driver on the NASCAR Winston Cup circuit whose career spanned five decades. Marcis won five times over this tenure, twice at Richmond, including his final win in 1982, and collected 94 top-fives and 222 top-tens. His best championship results were second in 1975, fifth in 1978, sixth in 1974, 1976 and 1982, and ninth in 1970, 1980 and 1981.
1941World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.[†]
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.