On this day
August 3, 1942
Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Headlines from August 3, 1942
ONE KILLED, 9 HURT IN RIOTING IN PARIS; Women Take Leading Part as Male Aides Fight Police -- Nazi Soldier Is Wounded ONE KILLED, 9 HURT IN RIOTING IN PARIS
1 killed, 9 hurt in riot, Av d'Orleans, Paris; wounded police decorated by Laval; freight-passenger train crash reptd, Nancy; potato riot reptd, Somme
Freak 'Tidal' Waves Wash Chicago Shore
Tidal waves; yacht overturned, South Chicago shore, Lake Mich
MURRAY PROPOSES NEW PEACE EFFORT BY C.I.O. AND A.F.L.; In Letter to Green He Says War Accord Opens Way to Organic Unity Talks NAMES COMMITTEE OF 3 Lewis Dropped and Ousting of Hutcheson as Negotiator for A.F.L. Is Expected MURRAY PROPOSES LABOR UNITY TALKS
AFL and CIO: Murray proposes reopening of organic unity negotiations, lr to Green; names CIO com; hits stoppages caused by AFL jurisdictional disputes, cites no-strike pledge; text; labor circles reaction; speculation; situation revd
Notable Deaths
1942Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1872)[†]
Richard Martin Willstätter FRS(For) HFRSE was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.