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LaGuardia replies to Landis; disputes statement on helmets and reiterates charge that OCD has failed to furnish any equipment to city
Maj Gen Terry warns more drastic regulation may be needed to cut sky glow; urges pub cooperation; army explains interior lighting rules
Opposes Repr Fish re-nomination, lr to up-State county leaders
Axis sources rept U S troops reach Gibraltar; German radio news agency, Transocean, repts 4 U S divs in Near East
1942Roger Brown, American basketball player (died 1997)[†]
Roger William Brown was an American professional basketball player and councilman. A unanimous ABA All-Time Team selection, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013.
1942Ted Kaczynski, American academic and mathematician turned anarchist and serial murderer (Unabomber) (died 2023)[†]
Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign.
1942Barbara Parkins, Canadian actress[†]
Barbara Parkins is a Canadian-American former actress, singer, dancer and photographer.
1942Richard Oakes, Native American civil rights activist (died 1972)[†]
Richard Oakes was a Mohawk American Indian activist and academic. He spurred American Indian studies in university curricula and is credited for helping to change US federal government termination policies of American Indian peoples and culture. Oakes led a nineteen-month occupation of Alcatraz Island with LaNada Means, approximately 50 California State University students, and 37 others. The Occupation of Alcatraz is credited for opening a rediscovered unity among all American Indian tribes.
1942Mexico enters the Second World War on the side of the Allies.[†]
The history of Mexico spans over three millennia, with the earliest evidence of hunter-gatherer settlement 13,000 years ago. Central and southern Mexico, known as Mesoamerica, saw the rise of complex civilizations that developed glyphic writing systems to record political histories and conquests. The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire in the early 16th century established New Spain, bringing Spanish rule, Christianity, and European influences.