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asserts Manhattan bldg service employes strike interferes with mail, telegram to Hannegan
Commissar Molotoff criticizes US occupation policy in rept submitted to Foreign Mins Council, London; demands Allied control comm; Sec Byrnes opposes demand; holds subject not on conf agenda; Foreign Sec Bevin supports Byrnes; Australia and other dominions back USSR; force Bevin to reverse stand
Truman reveals plan for cut to 1,950,000 by July, '46
1945Louise Beaudoin, Canadian academic and politician[â ]
Louise Beaudoin is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Rosemont in the National Assembly of Quebec until 2012, as a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ). She sat as an independent from June 6, 2011 to April 3, 2012. She is best known for her previous tenure as a Member of the National Assembly (MNA) of Chambly, from 1994 to 2003, when she occupied various ministerial positions.
1945Gal Costa, Brazilian singer (died 2022)[â ]
Gal Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos, known professionally as Gal Costa, was a Brazilian singer of popular music. Twelve-times Brazilian Music Awards winner, she was one of the main figures of the tropicalia music scene in Brazil in the late 1960s and appeared on the acclaimed compilation Tropicålia: ou Panis et Circencis (1968). She was described by The New York Times as "one of Brazil's greatest singers."
1945Bryan Ferry, English singer-songwriter[â ]
Bryan Ferry is an English singer and songwriter. He became known as the frontman of the band Roxy Music and also launched a solo career.
1945BĂ©la BartĂłk, Hungarian pianist and composer (born 1881)[â ]
BĂ©la Viktor JĂĄnos BartĂłk was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hungary's greatest composers. Among his notable works are the opera Bluebeard's Castle, the ballet The Miraculous Mandarin, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, the Concerto for Orchestra and six string quartets. Through his collection and analytical study of folk music, he was one of the founders of comparative musicology, which later became known as ethnomusicology. Per Anthony Tommasini, BartĂłk "has empowered generations of subsequent composers to incorporate folk music and classical traditions from whatever culture into their works and was "a formidable modernist who in the face of Schoenbergâs breathtaking formulations showed another way, forging a language that was an amalgam of tonality, unorthodox scales and atonal wanderings."