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US industry hit by peanut price ceilings
S R Dutky patents method to multiply and preserve 2 bacteria which attack them
Prices on the New York Stock Exchange drifted yesterday without apparent direction and closed dull and mixed, with aircraft, oil and motor shares forming the firmest groups. Volume was only 137,490 shares, against 180,410 on the preceding Saturday.
1942Jonathan Aitken, Irish-British journalist and politician, Minister for Defence Procurement[†]
Jonathan William Patrick Aitken is a British author, Church of England priest and former Conservative Party politician. Beginning his career in journalism, he was elected to Parliament in 1974, and was a member of the cabinet during John Major's premiership from 1994 to 1995. That same year, he was accused by The Guardian of misdeeds conducted under his official government capacity. He sued the newspaper for libel in response, but the case collapsed, and he was subsequently found to have committed perjury during his trial. In 1999, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison, of which he served seven months.
1942John Kani, South African actor[†]
Bonisile John Kani is a South African actor. He is known for portraying T'Chaka in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Captain America: Civil War (2016) and Black Panther (2018), Rafiki in The Lion King (2019) and Mufasa: The Lion King as well as Colonel Ulenga in the Netflix films Murder Mystery (2019) and Murder Mystery 2 (2023). Also a playwright, Kani co-wrote with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona the 1975 anti-apartheid play Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, as well as performing in it.
1942Pervez Sajjad, Pakistani cricketer[†]
Pervez Sajjad Hasan is a Pakistani former cricketer who played in 19 Tests from 1964 to 1973.
1942World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.[†]
The Battle of Alam el Halfa took place between 30 August and 5 September 1942 south of El Alamein during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. Panzerarmee Afrika, attempted an envelopment of the British Eighth Army. In Unternehmen Brandung, the last big Axis offensive of the Western Desert Campaign, Rommel intended to defeat the Eighth Army before Allied reinforcements arrived.