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Giraud govt reforms reptd under way despite continued French disunity
USSR forces, under Col Gen N F Vatutin, cut Rostov-Moscow ry at Glubokaya; Yeremenko forces take 16 points between Don River and Stalingrad-Tikhoretsk ry; reach point nearly 40 mi beyond Zimovniki; USSR 600-yd drive inside Stalingrad reptd; Timoshenko launches Leningrad offensive; Gers cite fierce fighting; map
Asked to remove Repr Marcantonio from House Judiciary Com
Poletti explains he was not aware of Hoffman's previous record, cites Mrs P Spivack, Hoffman's sec convicted with him, sentence commutation
1943Michael Attwell, English actor (died 2006)[†]
Michael John Attwell was an English film and television actor. He is possibly best known for his role as Kenny Beale in the television soap opera EastEnders.
1943Gavin Bryars, English bassist and composer[†]
Richard Gavin Bryars is an English composer and double bassist. He has worked in jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, avant-garde, and experimental music.
1943Brian Ferneyhough, British composer[†]
Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer. Ferneyhough is typically considered the central figure of the New Complexity movement. Ferneyhough has taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and the University of California, San Diego; he teaches at Stanford University and is a regular lecturer in the summer courses at Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He has resided in California since 1987.
1943Ronnie Milsap, American singer and pianist[†]
Ronnie Lee Milsap is an American country music singer and pianist. He was one of country music's most popular and influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s. Nearly completely blind from birth, he became one of the most successful and versatile country "crossover" singers of his time, appealing to both country and pop music markets with hit songs that incorporated pop, R&B, and rock and roll elements. His biggest crossover hits include "It Was Almost Like a Song", "Smoky Mountain Rain", "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me", "I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World", "Any Day Now", and "Stranger in My House". He is credited with six Grammy Awards and 35 number-one country hits, fourth to George Strait, Conway Twitty, and Merle Haggard. He was selected for induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2014.