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May 22, 1946

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KRUG TAKES OVER; Lewis is Said to Put Decision to Work for U.S.Up to the IndividualsBUT HIS SUPPORT IS ASKEDTruman Empowers Secretaryto Negotiate With Union onPay, Other Concessions Parley Set for Today Problem Is Called Unusual PRESIDENT ORDERS COAL PITS SEIZED Krug Expects Criticism

By Louis Stark Special To the New York Times

Truman orders Govt seizure of soft coal mines; Sec Krug to adminster mines; Moreell apptd operating chief; Lewis says Smith-Connally Act puts decision to work in miners hands; Krug statements; UMWA-operators agreement on 1 1/2-3% payroll-assessed welfare fund, to be administered by union, operators and Govt, reptd; operators lr to Truman noted

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Notable Births

George Best

1946George Best, Northern Irish footballer and manager (died 2005)[†]

George Best was a Northern Irish professional footballer who played as a winger, spending most of his club career at Manchester United. A skillful dribbler, he is considered one of the greatest players of all time, along with being considered one of the most talented to play. He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1968 and came fifth in the FIFA Player of the Century vote. Best received plaudits for his playing style, which combined pace, skill, balance, feints, the ability to get past defenders, and goalscoring. In 1999 he was on the six-man shortlist for the BBC's Sports Personality of the Century. He was an inaugural inductee into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002.

1946Michael Green, English physicist and academic[†]

Michael Boris Green is a British physicist and a pioneer of string theory. He is a professor of theoretical physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London, emeritus professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 2009 to 2015.

Howard Kendall

1946Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (died 2015)[†]

Howard Kendall was an English footballer and manager.

1946Andrei Marga, Romanian philosopher, political scientist, politician[†]

Andrei Marga is a Romanian philosopher, political scientist, and politician. Rector – for the second time – of the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, he was a member of the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNŢCD), serving as Minister of Education in the Democratic Convention (CDR) coalition governments of Victor Ciorbea, Radu Vasile, and Mugur Isărescu (1997–2000). In January 2001, he replaced Ion Diaconescu as PNŢCD president, but resigned from this position in July 2001, amid political tensions within the party. He subsequently formed a new political party, more specifically the Popular Christian Party later during the same year. Later on, he became a member of the National Liberal Party (PNL).

1946Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Russian-Ukrainian astronomer[†]

Lyudmila Vasilyevna Zhuravleva is a Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian astronomer, who worked at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnij, where she discovered 213 minor planets. She also serves as president of the Crimean branch of the "Prince Clarissimus Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov Foundation". She has discovered a number of asteroids, including the Trojan asteroid 4086 Podalirius and asteroid 2374 Vladvysotskij. Zhuravleva is ranked 43 in the Minor Planet Center's list of those who have discovered minor planets. She is credited with having discovered 200, and co-discovered an additional 13 between 1972 and 1992. In the rating of minor planet discoveries, she is listed in 57th place out of 1,429 astronomers. The main-belt asteroid 26087 Zhuravleva, discovered by her colleague Lyudmila Karachkina at Nauchnij, was named in her honour.