A.F.L. Opposes 8,200,000 Army As Threat to Production, Morale; A.F.L. SAYS ARMY WOULD BE TOO BIG
Green affirms opposition to 8,200,000-man army
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Green affirms opposition to 8,200,000-man army
100,000 volunteers backed by business firms to launch drive, NYC; Chester comment
RAF raids western Ger, Maupertus airfield and factories, Hengelo and Liege area; total Feb raids and bomb tonnage used estimated; targets cited; Ger radio repts latest Cologne raid effects
TWU conv; D L McMahon warns J H Delaney on union plans to attain demands, rejects strike plan; conv approves immediate arbitration and com apptmt to meet with mayor's com
1943Gil Amelio, American businessman[†]
Gilbert Frank Amelio is an American technology executive. Amelio worked at Bell Labs, Fairchild Semiconductor, and the semiconductor division of Rockwell International, and was also the CEO of National Semiconductor and Apple Computer.
1943José Ángel Iribar, Spanish footballer and manager[†]
José Ángel Iribar Kortajarena, nicknamed El Chopo, is a Spanish former professional football goalkeeper and manager.
1943Rashid Sunyaev, Russian-German astronomer and physicist[†]
Rashid Alievich Sunyaev is a Soviet, and Russian, German astrophysicist of Tatar descent. He got his MS degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in 1966. He became a professor at MIPT in 1974. Sunyaev was the head of the High Energy Astrophysics Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and has been chief scientist of the Academy's Space Research Institute since 1992. He has also been a director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, since 1996, and Maureen and John Hendricks Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since 2010.

1943Alexandre Yersin, Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist (born 1863)[†]
Alexandre Émile John Yersin was a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer (1894) of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest, which was later named in his honour: Yersinia pestis. Another bacteriologist, the Japanese physician Kitasato Shibasaburō, is often credited with independently identifying the bacterium a few days earlier. Yersin also demonstrated for the first time that the same bacillus was present in the rodent as well as in the human disease, thus underlining the possible means of transmission.