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Conf with Roosevelt and Churchill
WASHINGTON, May 13 -- Secretary Ickes, Solid Fuels Administrator, told a press conference today that another interruption of work when the fifteen-day coal truce expired Tuesday midnight was "unthinkable."
Amendment for Cong trade pact abrogation power rejected, House
LONDON, May 13 -- With the fall of Tunisia to Allied arms there has come some further enlightenment about Allied plans for the administration of a liberated Europe.
1943Jack Bruce, Scottish-English singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2014)[â ]
John Symon Asher Bruce was a Scottish musician. He gained popularity as the primary lead vocalist and âbassist âof rock band Cream. After the group disbanded in 1968, he pursued a solo career and also played with several bands.
1943Ălafur Ragnar GrĂmsson, Icelandic academic and politician, 5th President of Iceland[â ]
Ălafur Ragnar GrĂmsson is an Icelandic politician who was the fifth president of Iceland, serving from 1996 to 2016. He was previously a member of the Icelandic Parliament for the People's Alliance and served as Minister of Finance from 1988 to 1991.
1943Eddie Low, New Zealand country singer and musician (died 2024)[â ]
Edward Robert Low was a New Zealand country singer and musician, with a career spanning over 60 years. Low released a number of successful country albums and singles throughout the 1970s and 80s and has performed in a number of groups since the 1960s including The Quin Tikis and the New Zealand Highwaymen. Low continued to record and release music throughout his life, enjoying a second wave of success in the 2010s after releasing the career overview album The Voice In A Million (2011) which went platinum. He was awarded Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to music in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours.
1943Henri La Fontaine, Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1854)[â ]
Henri La Fontaine, was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1913 because "he was the effective leader of the peace movement in Europe."
1943World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHSÂ Centaur off the coast of Queensland.[â ]
Australian Hospital Ship (AHS) Centaur was a hospital ship which was attacked and sunk by a Japanese submarine off the coast of Queensland, Australia, on 14 May 1943. Of the 332 medical personnel and civilian crew aboard, 268 died, including 63 of the 65 army personnel.