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Role in Tokyo raid noted
W Lacroix with others quits Liberal party over draft decree; charges treachery, Commons; Power resignation confirmed; not yet accepted
Krug orders small-arms ammunition output doubled; reveals demand from Eisenhower as infantry fires 4 times expected amt; Pacific demands to rise; lists plant expansions; considers mortar output increase
Roosevelt urges United Nations continued action to provide basis for more prosperous world, lend-lease message
1944Ben Stein, American actor, television personality, game show host, lawyer, and author[†]
Benjamin Jeremy Stein is an American writer, lawyer, actor, comedian, and commentator on political and economic issues. He began his career as a speechwriter for U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford before entering the entertainment field as an actor, comedian, and game show host. He is best known on screen as the economics teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, as the host of Win Ben Stein's Money, and as Dr. Arthur Neuman in The Mask and Son of the Mask. Stein also co-wrote and starred in the controversial 2008 film Expelled which was widely criticized for promoting pseudoscientific intelligent design creationist claims of persecution. Stein is the son of economist and writer Herbert Stein, who worked at the White House under President Nixon. As a character actor, he is well known for his droning, monotonous delivery. In comedy, he is known for his deadpan delivery.
1944Michael Kijana Wamalwa, Kenyan lawyer and politician, 8th Vice President of Kenya (died 2003)[†]
Michael Christopher Kijana Wamalwa was a renowned Kenyan politician who at the time of his death was serving as the eighth Vice-President of Kenya.
1944Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American lawyer and judge (born 1866)[†]
Kenesaw Mountain Landis was an American jurist who served as a United States federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and the first commissioner of baseball from 1920 until his death. He is remembered for his resolution of the Black Sox Scandal, in which he expelled eight members of the Chicago White Sox from organized baseball for conspiring to lose the 1919 World Series and repeatedly refused their reinstatement requests. His iron rule over baseball in the near quarter-century of his commissionership is generally credited with restoring public confidence in the game.