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Trans-Luxury passenger plane, near Elko; 21 dead, 1 hurt
NYC repr Col Jakova asks permission to appear at UN Security Council hearing on Greece to present case on Greek-Albanian border incidents; USSR supports plea; Greek repr places responsibility for incidents on Albanians; Greek repr indicates USSR could halt border strife in moment by order to Communists in frontier area
Dewey calls Dem conv platform assertions misrepresentation
O'Dwyer acts to assure supplies
show plans cancelled
1946Ron Boone, American basketball player and commentator[†]
Ronald Bruce Boone is an American former professional basketball player. He had a 13-year career in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA). Boone set a record for most consecutive games played in professional basketball history with 1,041 and claims to have never missed a game from when he started playing basketball in the fourth grade until his retirement. Boone is the current color commentator on Utah Jazz broadcasts.
1946Roger Knight, English cricketer and educator[†]
Roger David Verdon Knight is an English administrator, cricketer and schoolmaster. He was awarded the OBE in 2007. He is an Honorary Life Member of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and was President of the club from 2015 to 2016.
1946Shirley M. Malcom, American scientist, academic and educator[†]
Shirley M. Malcom currently serves as a Senior Advisor and Director of SEA Change at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Malcom is a trustee of Caltech, and a regent of Morgan State University. Malcom serves on the boards of the Heinz Endowments, Public Agenda, the National Math and Science Initiative and Digital Promise.
1946United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.[†]
"Restatement of Policy on Germany", or the "Speech of Hope", is a speech given by James F. Byrnes, the US Secretary of State, in Stuttgart on September 6, 1946.