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Knox reveals Kearny was engaged in fight with submarine; says navy will pursue secrecy policy on U-boat sinkings; damaged ship and Danis illus
War Dept sends Col R M Jones and Maj P Beasley to supervise rehiring of strikers; govt seizure hinted if co refuses to comply with terms; War Dept and Frankensteen statements; Repr Ford denounces plant seizure rept; NDMB official comments; union calls off strike
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KUIBYSHEV, Russia, Oct. 29 (U.P.) -- German artillery has unleashed a savage barrage on the approaches to Moscow and the city's defenders expect an onslaught, but without waiting for it they have started attacks that have driven the Germans from several towns, war dispatches said today.
1941Marcel Berlins, French-English lawyer, journalist, and academic (died 2019)[†]
Marcel Berlins was a French-born lawyer, legal commentator, author, broadcaster and columnist. He was best known for his work in the United Kingdom, writing for British national newspapers The Times and The Guardian, presenting BBC Radio 4's legal programme Law in Action for 16 years, and teaching Media Law at City, University of London.
1941Aleksandr Dulichenko, Russian-Estonian linguist and academic[†]
Aleksandr Dmitrievich Dulichenko is a Russian-Estonian Esperantist, linguist, and an expert in Slavic microlanguages currently living in Estonia. He is a professor at the University of Tartu, where he is the head of the department of Slavic studies.
1941Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch is a German physicist. He received one-fourth of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique", sharing the prize with John L. Hall and Roy J. Glauber.
1941Otis Williams, American singer-songwriter and producer[†]
Otis Williams is an American second tenor/baritone singer. He is occasionally also a songwriter and a record producer. Williams is the founder and last surviving original member of the Motown vocal group The Temptations, a group in which he continues to perform; he also owns the rights to the Temptations name.
1941Bob Wilson, English footballer and sportscaster[†]
Robert Primrose Wilson is a former Scotland international football goalkeeper and later broadcaster / anchorman.
1941President Roosevelt approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.[†]
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served more than two terms. His first two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth saw him shift his focus to America's involvement in World War II.
1941Holocaust: Fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.[†]
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were committed primarily through mass shootings across Eastern Europe and poison gas chambers in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and Chełmno in occupied Poland. Separate Nazi persecutions killed millions of other non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs); the term Holocaust is sometimes used to include the murder and persecution of non-Jewish groups.