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On the wide lowlands of Northern Mecklenburg, where the Warnow River winds down to the Baltic Sea, lies the ancient German port of Rostock. The tower of St. Peter's Church, built in the fourteenth century when the town entered the Hanseatic League, has served as a landmark for ships making for the harbor.
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1942Svyatoslav Belza, Russian journalist, author, and critic (died 2014)[†]
Svyatoslav Igorevich Belza was a Soviet Russian literary and musical scholar, critic and essayist, and a prominent TV personality who's launched and hosted several TV programs aimed at popularizing classical music, theatre, and ballet, including Music on Air and Masterpieces of the World Music Theatre. Belza has received high-profiled honors in three countries, among them the Russian Order of Merit for the Fatherland, the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, and the Ukrainian Order of Saint Nicholas.
1942Sharon Carstairs, Canadian lawyer and politician, Leader of the Government in the Senate[†]
Sharon Carstairs is a Canadian politician and former Senator.
1942Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States[†]
Michael Kergin is a Canadian career diplomat, who has been a member of the foreign service in some capacity since 1967, when he joined the Department of External Affairs.
1942Bobby Rydell, American singer and actor (died 2022)[†]
Robert Louis Ridarelli, known by the stage name Bobby Rydell, was an American singer and actor who mainly performed rock and roll and traditional pop music. In the early 1960s, he was considered a teen idol. His most well-known songs include "Wildwood Days", "Wild One" and "Volare" ; in 1963 he appeared in the musical film Bye Bye Birdie.
1942Jadwiga Staniszkis, Polish sociologist, political scientist, and academic (died 2024)[†]
Jadwiga Staniszkis was a Polish sociologist and political scientist, essayist, a professor at the University of Warsaw and the Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu, a Polish campus of National-Louis University.
1942Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1,549 Chinese miners dead.[†]
Benxihu (Honkeiko) Colliery was a coal mine in Benxi, Liaoning, China, first mined in 1905. Originally an iron and coal mining project under joint Japanese and Chinese control, the mine came under predominantly Japanese control. In the early 1930s, Japan invaded the northeast of China, and Liaoning province became part of the Japanese-controlled puppet state of Manchukuo. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese forced Chinese labourers—some of whom had been captured from local military organizations—to work the colliery under very poor conditions. Food was scarce and workers did not have sufficient clothing. Working conditions were harsh, and diseases such as typhoid and cholera flourished due to poor sanitation and water supplies. Typically, miners worked 12-hour shifts or longer. The Japanese controllers were known to beat workers with pick handles, and the perimeter of the mine was fenced and guarded. Many describe the conditions as slave labour.