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House-Sen conf agrees on Connally-May bill; strike-bound plant seizure provisions included; other details
OPM approves AFL pact with defense agencies; OPM asked to consider WPA labor elimination from projects employing AFL bldg trade unions members; pact terms; United Construction Workers Organizing Com (CIO) protests exclusion from pact negotiations
Stimson assails Sen Wheeler for sending anti-war postcards to soldiers in camp; Wheeler replies
USSR repts lines firm on Lake Ladoga front; claims annihilation of German infantry div in Smolensk area; heavy fighting continues in Porkhov and Zhitomir areas; USSR troops launch offensive in Murmansk area; USSR guerillas take toll of Germans; German claim of Smolensk capture remains confused; USSR pictures 2d German offensive as failure
Offers mil service extension bill
1941Manny Charlton, Spanish-born Scottish rock musician and songwriter (died 2022)[†]
Manuel Charlton was a Spanish-born Scottish musician and record producer, best known as a founding member of the influential Scottish hard rock band Nazareth; he was the band's lead guitarist from 1968 to 1990. He also produced a string of successful Nazareth albums in the 1970s, including Hair of the Dog.
1941Nate Thurmond, American basketball player (died 2016)[†]
Nathaniel Thurmond was an American professional basketball player who spent the majority of his 14-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Golden State Warriors franchise. He played the center and power forward positions. Thurmond was a seven-time All-Star and the first player in NBA history to record an official quadruple-double. In 1965, he grabbed 42 rebounds in a game; only Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell recorded more rebounds in an NBA game. Thurmond was named a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1985, one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History, and part of the NBA 75th Anniversary Team in 2021.
1941Emmett Till, African-American lynching and kidnapping victim (died 1955)[†]
Emmett Louis Till was an African American youth, who was 14 years old when he was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. Till posthumously became an icon of the civil rights movement.