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1944Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar, Iranian-English academic and politician (died 2022)[†]
Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar, was a British life peer in the House of Lords. She had a life-long interest in women's rights and Islamic law. She was a professor at the University of York and she wrote over a dozen scholarly books.
1944Marcie Blane, American singer[†]
Marcia Blank known as Marcie Blane, is a former American pop singer from 1962 to 1965.
1944Janet Dailey, American author and entrepreneur (died 2013)[†]
Janet Anne Haradon Dailey was an American author of numerous romance novels as Janet Dailey. Her novels have been translated into nineteen languages and have sold more than 300 million copies worldwide.
1944Mary Robinson, Irish lawyer and politician, President of Ireland[†]
Mary Therese Winifred Robinson is an Irish politician who served as the president of Ireland from December 1990 to September 1997. She was the country's first female president. Robinson had previously served as a senator in Seanad Éireann from 1969 to 1989, and as a councillor on Dublin Corporation from 1979 to 1983. Although she had been briefly affiliated with the Labour Party during her time as a senator, she became the first independent candidate to win the presidency and the first not to have had the support of Fianna Fáil. Following her time as president, Robinson became the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002.
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US forces smash 400 yds into Myitkyina; Chinese airborne infantry reptd closing in from east; Chinese-US unit presses down from north; Chinese-US troops reptd to have taken Zigyum, Katkyo and Gharpate; Chinese block Myitkyina-Kamaing road; US planes destroy 17-23 Jap planes, damage 17; Brit troops set up road block, near Jessami; repel counter-attacks, Kohima outskirts; seize positions below Imphal on Silchar road; Indian div removal by air from Arakan to Ukhrul front revealed; Stilwell confident of Myitkyina fall; map
" JACOBOWSKY AND THE COLONEL" no doubt will end only after it has contributed a Broadway legend worthy of S.L. Jacobowsky himself, that citizen of the world. During a reasonably short career thus far it has not made a bad start.
LONDON, May 20 -- King Peter of Yugoslavia announced today that Gen. Draja Mikhailovitch, who Partisan leaders assert has collaborated with the Germans against them, had been relieved of his post as Minister of War in the Yugoslav Government in Exile.
ITHACA, N.Y., May 20 -- The United States Naval Academy's precision-stroked crews swept Cayuga Lake in the annual spring day regatta today, meeting the challenges of three other boats in both the varsity and jayvee two-mile races.
FOR a man with so many irons in the fire Billy Rose should be pushing buttons, dictating memos, dashing hither and yon and maybe thinking seriously about a nervous breakdown. Au contraire, Mr. Rose, in his Beekman Place splendor, is placid, unruffled and unhurried.
CINCINNATI, May 20 -- With President Branch Rickey again watching from the stands the Durocher Dodgers found surcease from sorrow here today as they ended their losing streak at four games by beating Deacon Bill McKechnie's Reds 6 -- 1.
A 375-foot home run by Howie Sarath with one out in the last half of the ninth inning gave the New York University baseball team a 4-to-3 victory over Columbia yesterday at Ohio Field.
Sens McCarran and Downey withhold proposed amendment to cut tax; to offer it again as amendment to debt bill; Sen George favors cut to 20%