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Japanese press scores Roosevelt, Knox, Welles and Churchill ss; edited versions given to Japanese pub; Tojo restates policy, s to House of Peers reprs; Tokyo radio repts Brit and U S in undeclared war against Japan; Kurusu arrives, Honolulu
Churchill answers critics of Govt members and Cabinet system, s at opening Parliamentary session; text
Dems lack sufficient majority in new Council to override Mayor's veto
Southern Dem support of Neutrality Act repeal linked with anti-labor legis passage
1941Eberhard Diepgen, German lawyer and politician, 10th Mayor of Berlin[†]
Eberhard Diepgen is a German lawyer and politician who served as Mayor of West Berlin from 1984 to 1989 and again as Mayor of (united) Berlin, from 1991 until 2001, as member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
1941David Green, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Hobby Lobby[†]
David Green is an American businessman and the founder of Hobby Lobby, a chain of arts and crafts stores. He is a major financial supporter of Evangelical organizations in the United States and funded the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.
1941Dack Rambo, American actor (died 1994)[†]
Norman Jay "Dack" Rambo was an American actor, widely known for his role as Walter Brennan's grandson Jeff in the series The Guns of Will Sonnett, as Steve Jacobi in the soap opera All My Children, as cousin Jack Ewing on Dallas, and as Grant Harrison on the soap opera Another World.
1941Mel Stottlemyre, American baseball player and coach (died 2019)[†]
Melvin Leon Stottlemyre Sr. was an American professional baseball pitcher and pitching coach. He played for 11 seasons in Major League Baseball, all for the New York Yankees, and coached for 23 seasons, for the Yankees, New York Mets, Houston Astros, and Seattle Mariners. He was a five-time MLB All-Star as a player and a five-time World Series champion as a coach.
1941William Taubman, American political scientist and author[†]
William Chase Taubman is an American political scientist. His biography of Nikita Khrushchev won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2003. He is currently Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science at Amherst College.
1941World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.[†]
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.