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OPA extension bill amendment to remove tobacco and cigarettes price control approved, Sen
offers resolution modifying subcom recommendations; defends plan, council
FBI holds E Goldberger, former FEA official, on charge of getting bribes for approving export licenses for Delta Export Service
Sen Bridges backs proposal
1946Robert Louis-Dreyfus, French-Swiss businessman (died 2009)[â ]
Robert Louis-Dreyfus was a French businessman who was chief executive officer (CEO) of Adidas and Saatchi & Saatchi. He was a majority shareholder of the French football team Marseille, and during his tenure they re-emerged as a major European club.
1946TĂ”nu Sepp, Estonian instrument maker and educator[â ]
TÔnu Sepp is an Estonian music teacher and a figure in early music. He has been called the "grand old man" of early music in Estonia.
1946Donald Trump, American businessman, television personality, 45th and 47th President of the United States[â ]
Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who is the 47th president of the United States. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.
1946John Logie Baird, Scottish-English physicist and engineer (born 1888)[â ]
John Logie Baird was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator who demonstrated the world's first mechanical television system on 26 January 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube.
1946Jorge Ubico, 21st President of Guatemala (born 1878)[â ]
Jorge Ubico Castañeda, nicknamed Number Five or also Central America's Napoleon, was a Guatemalan military officer, politician, and dictator who served as the president of Guatemala from 1931 to 1944.