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December 4, 1945

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SENATE BEATS PLAN TO HOBBLE US IN UNO; Rejects Donnell Amendment 57 to 14--Aim for Full-Time Delegates is Defeated

By C.p. Trussell Special To the New York Times

Sen votes 57 to 14 against Donnell amendment making US UNO participation subject to 2/3 Sen treaty ratification; US Cong majority remains unmarred after 3-day contest on issue; Sen Wheeler and 13 Repubs support of amendment noted; bill setting US UNO delegates salaries, titles and other details debated; Wheeler amendment to make US mil forces participation subject to Cong approval to be taken up; defeat seen

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Notable Births

Roberta Bondar

1945Roberta Bondar, Canadian neurologist, academic, and astronaut[†]

Roberta Lynn Bondar is a Canadian astronaut, neurologist and consultant. She is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space.

Notable Deaths

Thomas Hunt Morgan

1945Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1866)[†]

Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and science author who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1933 for discoveries elucidating the role that the chromosome plays in heredity.

Richárd Weisz

1945Richárd Weisz, Hungarian Olympic champion wrestler (born 1879)[†]

Richárd Weisz was a Hungarian heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler. He competed at the 1906 Intercalated Games and at the 1908 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in 1908.

Historical Events

United States Senate

1945By a vote of 65–7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations. (The UN had been established on October 24, 1945.)[†]

The United States Senate is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the upper house, and the U.S. House of Representatives is the lower house. Together, the Senate and House have the authority under Article One of the U.S. Constitution to make and pass or defeat federal legislation.