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Churchill says Germany must invade Brit to win, radio s; text
Germans cross Patras Gulf as parachutists trap Brit at Corinth
J D Rockefeller Jr urges elimination of defense delays; text
Southerners refuse to accept Roosevelt plan; bd efforts collapse; Southerners raise wage increase offer; bd, Lewis, Putnam and Gaines statements; Roosevelt may act
1941Ann-Margret, Swedish-American actress, singer, and dancer[â ]
Ann-Margret Olsson, credited as Ann-Margret, is a Swedish-American actress and singer with a career spanning seven decades. Her many screen roles include Pocketful of Miracles (1961), State Fair (1962), Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Viva Las Vegas (1964), Carnal Knowledge (1971), The Train Robbers (1973), Tommy (1975), The Return of the Soldier (1982), 52 Pick-Up (1986), Newsies (1992), Grumpy Old Men (1993), Any Given Sunday (1999), Taxi (2004), and Going in Style (2017). Her accolades include five Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award in addition to two Academy Award nominations and two Grammy nominations.
1941Lucien Aimar, French cyclist[â ]
Lucien Aimar is a French cyclist, who won the Tour de France in 1966 and the national road championship in 1968. He is now a race organizer.
1941John Madejski, English businessman and academic[â ]
Sir John Robert Madejski, OBE, DL is an English businessman, with commercial interests spanning property, broadcast media, hotels, restaurants, publishing and football.
1941Karl Barry Sharpless, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[â ]
Karl Barry Sharpless is an American stereochemist. He is a two-time Nobel laureate in chemistry, known for his work on stereoselective reactions and click chemistry.
1941Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet and author (died 2013)[â ]
Irina (Iraida) Volodymyrivna Zhylenko, a Ukrainian poet, was the a wife of Volodymyr Drozd. She was born in Kyiv and died in August 2013 at the age of 72.
1941The UstaĆĄe massacre nearly 200 Serbs in the village of Gudovac, the first massacre of their genocidal campaign against Serbs of the Independent State of Croatia.[â ]
The UstaĆĄe, also known by anglicised versions Ustasha or Ustashe, was a Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization active, as one organization, between 1929 and 1945, formally known as the UstaĆĄa â Croatian Revolutionary Movement. From its inception and before the Second World War, the organization engaged in a series of terrorist activities against the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, including collaborating with IMRO to assassinate King Alexander I of Yugoslavia in 1934. During World War II in Yugoslavia, the UstaĆĄe went on to perpetrate the Holocaust and genocide against its Jewish, Serb and Roma populations, killing hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Roma, as well as Muslim and Croat political dissidents.