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McNutt says House compromise father draft bill passage would sabotage over-all manpower program; Sen approves bill, including WMC nondeferrable list ban
Longo charges frame-up conviction and demands ct arrest 5 witnesses against him for perjury; acts after Edison holds special hearing on case
Barbour, W Warren
1943Andrew Goodman, American activist (died 1964)[†]
Andrew Goodman was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1964. Goodman and two fellow activists, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, were volunteers for the Freedom Summer campaign that sought to register African Americans to vote in Mississippi and to set up Freedom Schools for black Southerners.
1943Sue Nicholls, English actress[†]
Susan Frances Harmar Nicholls is an English actress. She is best known for her long-running role as Audrey Roberts in the soap opera Coronation Street. Her other roles on British television include Crossroads (1964–1968), The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976–1979), and Rentaghost (1981–1984). She also appeared on Broadway in the 1974 revival of London Assurance.
1943David Nolan, American activist and politician (died 2010)[†]
David Fraser Nolan was an American activist and politician. He was one of the founders of the Libertarian Party of the United States, having hosted the meeting in 1971 at which the Party was founded. Nolan subsequently served the party in a number of roles including National Committee Chair, editor of the party newsletter, Chair of the By-laws Committee, Chair of the Judicial Committee, and Chair of the Platform Committee.
1943Petar Skansi, Croatian basketball player and coach (died 2022)[†]
Petar Skansi was a Croatian professional basketball player and coach. During his playing career, he played for Jugoplastika and Maxmobili Pesaro. He was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991. He was a member of the Yugoslavia national team that silver medalled at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
1943World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.[†]
The Deutsche Oper Berlin is a German opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. The resident building is the country's second largest opera house and also home to the Berlin State Ballet.
1943World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.[†]
Tarawa is an atoll and the capital of the Republic of Kiribati, in the Micronesia region of the central Pacific Ocean. It comprises North Tarawa, which has 6,629 inhabitants and much in common with other more remote islands of the Gilbert group, and South Tarawa, which has 56,388 inhabitants as of 2015, half of the country's total population. The atoll was the site of the Battle of Tarawa during World War II.