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LaGuardia warns police to clean up gambling; gives places list
Stalingrad and Verdun, battles
35 mph limit set by W M Jeffers, rubber dir
1942Kent McCord, American actor[â ]
Kent Franklin McWhirter, known by his stage name Kent McCord, is a retired American actor, best known for his roles as Officer Jim Reed on the television series Adam-12, Captain "Boxey" Troy on Galactica 1980, and IASA Colonel John Robert "Jack" Crichton / "Jack" the Ancient on Farscape.
1942Gloria E. AnzaldĂșa, American scholar of Chicana cultural theory (died 2004)[â ]
Gloria Evangelina AnzaldĂșa was an American scholar of Chicana feminism, cultural theory, and queer theory. She loosely based her best-known book, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), on her life growing up on the MexicoâTexas border and incorporated her lifelong experiences of social and cultural marginalization into her work. She also developed theories about the marginal, in-between, and mixed cultures that develop along borders, including on the concepts of Nepantla, Coyoxaulqui imperative, new tribalism, and spiritual activism. Her other notable publications include This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981), co-edited with CherrĂe Moraga.
1942Holocaust: Senior SS official August Frank issues a memorandum detailing how Jews should be "evacuated".[â ]
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were committed primarily through mass shootings across Eastern Europe and poison gas chambers in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and CheĆmno in occupied Poland. Separate Nazi persecutions killed millions of other non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs); the term Holocaust is sometimes used to include the murder and persecution of non-Jewish groups.