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PITTSBURGH, May 2 -- President Ford Frick of the National League fined Manager Frankie Frisch $50 for his part in yesterday's extraordinary demonstration in Forbes Field, but Onkel Franz must have written and mailed the check cheerfully after what his Pirates did today to the league-leading Dodgers.
Assemblyman Herbert seeks to kill resolution congratulating D'Antonio family on war work
Children overseas evacuation: E R Schmitz recital to help Bundles for Brit Belgians in Brit div care for Belgian child refugees in Brit
Child Placing and Adoption Com benefit plans
Shares on the New York Stock Exchange extended their gains yesterday in irregular fashion and closed at the best levels of the recovery movement. The market, however, was the third dullest Saturday of the year.
1942Věra Čáslavská, Czech gymnast and coach (died 2016)[†]
Věra Čáslavská was a Czechoslovak artistic gymnast and Czech sports official. She won a total of 22 international titles between 1959 and 1968 including seven Olympic gold medals, four world titles and eleven European championships. Čáslavská is the most decorated Czech gymnast in history and is one of only three female gymnasts, along with the Soviet Larisa Latynina and American Simone Biles, to win the all-around gold medal at two Olympics. She remains the only gymnast, male or female, to have won an Olympic gold medal in each individual event. She was also the first gymnast to achieve a perfect 10 at a major competition in the post-1952 era. She held the record for the most individual gold medals among all female athletes in Olympic history as well until it was surpassed by swimmer Katie Ledecky in 2024 after 56 years.
1942Butch Otter, American soldier and politician, 32nd Governor of Idaho[†]
Clement Leroy "Butch" Otter is an American businessman and politician who served as the 32nd governor of Idaho from 2007 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in 2006, and reelected in 2010 and 2014. Otter served as lieutenant governor from 1987 to 2001 and in U.S. Congress from the first district from 2001 to 2007.
1942Thorvald Stauning, Danish politician, 24th Prime Minister of Denmark (born 1873)[†]
Thorvald August Marinus Stauning was the first social democratic prime minister of Denmark. He served as Prime Minister from 1924 to 1926 and again from 1929 until his death in 1942.
1942World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.[†]
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.