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Sen Truman comments on Standard Oil synthetic program
Predicts rubber tire substitute
Nelson indicates natl curb unlikely until July; Davies cites rationing need to conserve rubber, repts renewed request to WPB for steel to build Longview, Texas-Phila pipeline
U S offers lend-lease pact proposal
1942Lee Baca, American police officer[†]
Leroy David Baca is a former American law enforcement officer and convicted felon who served as the 30th Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California from 1998 to 2014. In 2017, he was convicted of felony obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI.
1942Piers Courage, English racing driver (died 1970)[†]
Piers Raymond Courage was a British racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1967 to 1970.
1942Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman, English accountant and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster[†]
Roger Norman Freeman, Baron Freeman, PC was a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the Cabinet of Prime Minister John Major from 1995 to 1997. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) representing the constituency of Kettering from 1983 to 1997, and was made a life peer in 1997.
1942Robin Widdows, English racing driver[†]
Robin Michael Widdows is a British former racing driver from England. He participated in Formula One, Formula Two, Formula Three and sportscars including Le Mans.
1942Muhammed Hamdi Yazır, Turkish theologian, logician, and translator (born 1878)[†]
Muhammed Hamdi Yazır also known as Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır and Elmalılı was a Turkish Maturidi theologian, logician, Qur'an translator, Qur'anic exegesis scholar, Islamic legal academic, philosopher and encyclopedist.
1942World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.[†]
Reinhard Heydrich, the commander of the German Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), the acting Reichsprotektor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and a principal architect of the Holocaust, was assassinated during the Second World War in a coordinated operation by the Czechoslovak resistance. The assassination attempt, code-named Operation Anthropoid, was carried out by resistance operatives Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš on 27 May 1942. Heydrich was wounded in the attack and died of his injuries on 4 June.