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Amb Oumansky and Roosevelt; por
USSR Fleet and German Luftwaffe battle in Black Sea
anti-Fascist slogans appear
conf; AFL and CIO refuse to work during confs; Greenslade orders navy to start machinist's civil service roll; CIO charges strike-breaking; AFL offers to sign roll on Mare Island terms; Bethlehem to sign Pacific Coast master pact; grants AFL council closed shop
1941Erkin Koray, Turkish singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2023)[†]
Mustafa Erkin Koray was a Turkish singer and guitarist who mainly played Anatolian rock.
1941Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst and author[†]
Julia Kristeva is a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary critic, semiotician, psychoanalyst, feminist, and novelist who has lived in France since the mid-1960s. She has taught at Columbia University, and is now a professor emerita at Université Paris Cité. The author of more than 30 books, including Powers of Horror, Tales of Love, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia, Proust and the Sense of Time, and the trilogy Female Genius, she has been awarded Commander of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of Merit, the Holberg International Memorial Prize, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Vision 97 Foundation Prize, awarded by the Havel Foundation.
1941Graham McKenzie, Australian cricketer[†]
Graham Douglas McKenzie – commonly known as "Garth", after the comic strip hero – is an Australian cricketer who played for Western Australia (1960–74), Leicestershire (1969–75), Transvaal (1979–80) and Australia (1961–71) and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1965. He succeeded Alan Davidson as Australia's premier fast bowler and was in turn succeeded by Dennis Lillee, playing with both at either end of his career. McKenzie was particularly noted for his muscular physique and ability to take wickets on good batting tracks. His father Eric McKenzie and uncle Douglas McKenzie also played cricket for Western Australia. Garth was chosen for the Ashes tour of England in 1961 aged only 20. He made his debut in the Second Test at Lord's, where his 5/37 wrapped up the England innings to give Australia a 5-wicket victory.