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Brit raid Sark Is, Channel Islands; 1 prisoner brought back; Gers charge 5 Gers bound by Brit during raid
Apptd to Econ Stabilization Bd
Roosevelt states US will insist on surrender to United Nations of criminals guilty of barbarism to civilians; bars mass reprisals; GB announces parallel plan; statements expected to encourage oppressed nations and check Axis barbarism
1942Stanley Bates, English actor and screenwriter[†]
Stanley Kevin Bates is a British actor and screen writer best known for the role of Bungle, and as a scriptwriter, in the children's television programme, Rainbow between 1973 and 1989, series 2 to series 17. Other credits include roles in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972), Theatre of Blood (1973) and The Tomorrow People.
1942Sergey Chaplygin, Russian physicist, mathematician, and engineer (born 1869)[†]
Sergey Alexeyevich Chaplygin was a Russian and Soviet physicist, mathematician, and mechanical engineer. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.