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S on Brit refusal to implement Brit-Amer Comm of inquiry on Palestine rept without US aid, Commons
Proposes cut in occupying forces in Austria, Paris conf of Foreign Mins; also seeks settlement on relations leading to full evacuation of foreign troops; Min Molotov objects to discussion of Austria
State Appellate Div upholds right of OPA War Emergency Cts to try rent gougers; A Gross is returned to jail; implications of ruling discussed
May Day marked by brief Fascist demonstrations; 5 gunmen seize Rome radio; hail Mussolini and fascism
1946Lesley Gore, American singer-songwriter (died 2015)[†]
Lesley Gore was an American singer and songwriter. At the age of 16, she recorded her first hit song "It's My Party", a US number one in 1963. She followed it up with ten further US Billboard top 40 hits including "Judy's Turn to Cry" and "You Don't Own Me". Gore said she considered "You Don't Own Me" her signature song.
1946David Suchet, English actor[†]
Sir David Courtney Suchet is an English actor. He is known for his work on stage and in television. He portrayed Edward Teller in the television serial Oppenheimer (1980) and received the RTS and BPG awards for his performance as Augustus Melmotte in the British serial The Way We Live Now (2001). International acclaim and recognition followed his performance as Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989–2013), for which he received a 1991 British Academy Television Award for Best Actor nomination.
1946Bill Denny, Australian journalist, lawyer, politician, and decorated soldier (born 1872)[†]
William Joseph Denny was an Australian journalist, lawyer, politician and decorated soldier who held the South Australian House of Assembly seats of West Adelaide from 1900 to 1902 and then Adelaide from 1902 to 1905 and again from 1906 to 1933. After an unsuccessful candidacy as a United Labor Party (ULP) member in 1899, he was elected as an "independent liberal" in a by-election in 1900. He was re-elected in 1902, but defeated in 1905. The following year, he was elected as a ULP candidate, and retained his seat for that party until 1931. Along with the rest of the cabinet, he was ejected from the Australian Labor Party in 1931, and was a member of the Parliamentary Labor Party until his electoral defeat at the hands of a Lang Labor Party candidate in 1933.