Gene Cornish is a Canadian-American musician. He is an original member of the popular 1960s blue-eyed soul band The Young Rascals. From 1965 to 1970, the band recorded eight albums and had thirteen singles that reached Billboard's Top 40 chart. In 1997, as a founding member of The Rascals, Cornish was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

1944George Lucas, American director, producer, and screenwriter, founded Lucasfilm^[†]

George Walton Lucas Jr. is an American filmmaker and philanthropist. He created the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founded Lucasfilm, LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic and THX. He served as chairman of Lucasfilm before selling it to the Walt Disney Company in 2012. Nominated for four Academy Awards, he is considered to be one of the most significant figures of the 20th-century New Hollywood movement, and a pioneer of the modern blockbuster. Despite this, he has remained an independent filmmaker for most of his career.

1944David Kelly, Welsh scientist (died 2003)^[†]

David Christopher Kelly was a Welsh scientist and authority on biological warfare (BW). A former head of the Defence Microbiology Division working at Porton Down, Kelly was part of a joint US-UK team that inspected civilian biotechnology facilities in Russia in the early 1990s and concluded they were running a covert and illegal BW programme. He was appointed to the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) in 1991 as one of its chief weapons inspectors in Iraq and led ten of the organisation's missions between May 1991 and December 1998. He also worked with UNSCOM's successor, the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and led several of their missions into Iraq. During his time with UNMOVIC he was key in uncovering the anthrax production programme at the Salman Pak facility, and a BW programme run at Al Hakum.

Headlines from May 14, 1944

Fort' Lands Safely With Bomb on Tail

Wagering Mark Set By 45,000 at Ascot

FREE SPEECH RULED EMPLOYER'S RIGHT; Circuit Court Rejects NLRB Plea to Have E.G. Budd Cited for Contempt FREE SPEECH HELD EMPLOYER'S RIGHT

AMBASSADOR GREW'S STORY; His Diary Reveals a Canny Diplomat Who Fought and Failed with Honor TEN YEARS IN JAPAN. By Joseph C. Grew. 554 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $3.75. The Story of a Failure With Honor

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