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House com adopts subcom plan and rejects Ruml plan; Repubs plan to carry fight to floor
Conf on Christian Bases of World Order; Vice Pres Wallace and Bishop McConnell s
sinking of US transport Pres Coolidge and survivors trip to shore illus
guerrilla activity increases in reply to Ger draft; Fighting French denounce Ger program
USSR forces take Sychevka; advance toward Staraya Russa; Ger shift of troops from France to Eastern Front reptd; Ger repts USSR offensive in Orel area; map; Moscow Pravda lauds USSR gains
1943Bobby Fischer, American chess player and author (died 2008)[†]
Robert James Fischer was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. A chess prodigy, he won his first of a record eight US Championships at the age of 14. In 1964, he won with an 11–0 score, the only perfect score in the history of the tournament. Qualifying for the 1972 World Championship, Fischer swept matches with Mark Taimanov and Bent Larsen by 6–0 scores. After winning another qualifying match against Tigran Petrosian, Fischer won the title match against Boris Spassky of the USSR, in Reykjavík, Iceland. Publicized as a Cold War confrontation between the US and USSR, the match attracted more worldwide interest than any chess championship before or since.
1943Charles Gibson, American journalist[†]
Charles deWolf Gibson is an American broadcast television anchor, journalist, and podcaster. Gibson was a host of Good Morning America from 1987 to 1998 and again from 1999 to 2006, and the anchor of World News with Charles Gibson from 2006 to 2009.
1943Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (born 1878)[†]
Otto Freundlich was a German painter and sculptor of Jewish origin. A part of the first generation of abstract painters in Western art, Freundlich was a great admirer of cubism. He was murdered at Majdanek concentration camp during the Holocaust.