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Rouge plant employes ge??? wage increase; AFL credited; CIO statement
SMA purchases
Vichy press comment on U S French-Amer coms aid to Lorraine refugees
RAF bombs Axis troops, Bengazi and Benina
Brit and Free French forces guard Syrian frontier
1941David Cope, American composer and author[†]
David Howell Cope was an American author, composer, scientist and Dickerson Professor of Music at UC Santa Cruz. His primary area of research involved artificial intelligence and music; he wrote programs and algorithms that can analyze existing music and create new compositions in the style of the original input music. He taught the groundbreaking summer workshop in Workshop in Algorithmic Computer Music (WACM) that was open to the public as well as a general education course entitled Artificial Intelligence and Music for enrolled UCSC students. Cope was also co-founder and CTO Emeritus of Recombinant Inc., a music technology company. He died of congestive heart failure on May 4, 2025, at the age of 83.
1941Ben Nelson, American lawyer and politician, 37th Governor of Nebraska[†]
Earl Benjamin Nelson is an American attorney, businessman, and politician who served as the 37th governor of Nebraska from 1991 to 1999 and as a United States Senator from Nebraska from 2001 to 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party, and as of 2025, is the last Democrat to hold and/or win any statewide elected office in Nebraska.