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1942Joe Biden, American politician, 46th President of the United States[†]
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American politician who served as the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009 and also served as the 47th vice president under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017.
1942Bob Einstein, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2019)[†]
Stewart Robert Einstein was an American actor, comedy writer, and producer. He created and performed the satirical stuntman character Super Dave Osborne, and was also known for his roles as Marty Funkhouser in Curb Your Enthusiasm and Larry Middleman on Arrested Development.
1942Norman Greenbaum, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Norman Joel Greenbaum is an American singer-songwriter, known for his 1969 hit song "Spirit in the Sky". The song made him one of the most famous acts with a best-selling one-hit wonder for all time.
1942Meredith Monk, American composer and choreographer[†]
Meredith Jane Monk is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. From the 1960s onwards, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records. In 1991, Monk composed Atlas, an opera, commissioned and produced by the Houston Opera and the American Music Theater Festival. Her music has been used in films by the Coen Brothers and Jean-Luc Godard. Trip hop musician DJ Shadow sampled Monk's "Dolmen Music" on the song "Midnight in a Perfect World". In 2015, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Barack Obama.
1942Paulos Faraj Rahho, Chaldean Catholic Archeparch of Mosul (died 2008)[†]
Paulos Faraj Rahho was a Chaldean Catholic prelate who served as the Archeparch of Mosul in the northern part of Iraq from 2001 until his death in 2008 at the hands of terrorists.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- Borrowing in December of the unprecedented amount of $9,000,000,000 by means of an intensive sales campaign which will place with every class and type of investor Treasury issues specifically designed for them was announced today by Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury.
Allied planes sink Jap cruiser and destroyer trying to aid trapped Jap troops, Buna-Gona area; damage another destroyer; strafe landing barges; Australian ground forces reptd within 10 mi of Buna; fighting reptd there and at Gona; Jap troop and plane losses in Buna campaign estimated
Axis seen seeking to hold Bengazi coastal road open by Sceleidima-Antelat ridge screen to get forces into Tripolitania
US-Brit mechanized units reptd within 35 mi of Bizerte
Asst Sec Sullivan urges persons unable to meet income tax to make arrangements to pay it through wage deductions at 6% interest; holds number of persons unable to pay have been overestimated
convicted
says he will accept aid from other side
Nimitz credits Halsey with victory, Halsey credits men, in messages to Knox
USSR troops check Ger drive toward Georgian highway, Orjonikidze area, Central Caucasus; repulse Ger attacks in Stalingrad factory area; Gers seize demolished houses in another sector; Mozdok fighting subsides after flare-up; USSR forces recapture strong points in south Stalingrad; USSR forces and Gers Winter preparations discussed; Lt Gen Prukaeff promoted to col gen; Gers admit USSR forces attack along Don south of Leningrad and on Rybachi Peninsula; claim Tuapse sector advantage and attacks east of Alagir repulsed