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House debate set; London expects ratification
union holds to practice of supplying drivers for out-of-State trucks despite Hobbs Anti-Racketeering Law; Local 807 counsel and indus chmn H E Sheridan note truck operators acceptance of system in contracts; warn efforts to force change will cause labor-operator conflicts; hold '38 racketeering situation virtually eliminated
Pres Dutra and Cabinet visit Amb Pauley, breaking precedent
Miller, (Mrs) K M; found strangled; suspect Patrolman Abello attempts escape, shoots self
1946Pierre-Marc Johnson, Canadian lawyer, physician, and politician, 24th Premier of Quebec[†]
Pierre Marc Johnson is a Canadian lawyer, physician and politician. He was the 24th premier of Quebec from October 3 to December 12, 1985, making him the province's shortest-serving premier, and the first Baby Boomer to hold the office.
1946Paul Smith, English fashion designer[†]
Sir Paul Brierley Smith is an English fashion designer, best known for his eponymous luxury brand. He was appointed a Royal Designer for Industry in 1991.
1946Gerard 't Hooft, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Gerardus "Gerard" 't Hooft is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G. Veltman "for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions."
1946Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakharov, Russian dancer and choreographer (died 2013)[†]
Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakharov was a Russian choreographer, founder, Chief Choreographer and Artistic Director of Moscow National Academic Theater of Dance Gzhel and Moscow Ballet Academy Gzhel, Ph.D. in Study of Culture, Academician, Director of the University of Dance under the Academy of Slavic Culture, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Honoured Artist of Dagestan Republic, People's Artist of The North Ossetia-Alaniya Republic.
1946Micheline Bernardini models the first modern bikini at a swimming pool in Paris.[†]
Micheline Bernardini is a French former nude dancer at the Casino de Paris who agreed to model, on 5 July 1946, Louis Réard's two-piece swimsuit, which he called the bikini, named four days after the first test of an American nuclear weapon at the Bikini Atoll.