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Riekenbacker, E V; Seven Came Through
LAKEWOOD, N.J., March 20 -When the late John D. Rockefeller chose a site amid the pines here to lay out his private golf course years ago, he did not dream that these grounds some day would have a far-reaching influence upon the Spring conditioning of a major-league ball club.
1943István Gyulai, Hungarian sprinter and sportscaster (died 2006)[†]
István Gyulai was a former Hungarian television commentator and General Secretary of the IAAF and the AIPS.
1943Hartmut Haenchen, German conductor[†]
Hartmut Haenchen is a German conductor, known as a specialist for the music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and for conducting operas in the leading opera houses of the world.
1943Vivian Stanshall, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painter (died 1995)[†]
Vivian Stanshall was an English singer-songwriter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for acting as Master of Ceremonies on Mike Oldfield's album Tubular Bells.
1943Cornelia Fort, American soldier and pilot (born 1919)[†]
Cornelia Clark Fort was an American aviator who became famous for being part of two aviation-related events. The first occurred while conducting a civilian training flight at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, when she was the first United States pilot to encounter the Japanese air fleet during the Attack on Pearl Harbor. She and her student narrowly escaped a mid-air collision with the Japanese aircraft and a strafing attack after making an emergency landing.
1943Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through; von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.[†]
The Wehrmacht were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer (army), the Kriegsmarine (navy) and the Luftwaffe. The designation "Wehrmacht" replaced the previously used term Reichswehr and was the manifestation of the Nazi regime's efforts to rearm Germany to a greater extent than the Treaty of Versailles permitted.