L. C. Henderson Greenwood was an American professional football player who was a defensive end for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Arkansas AM&N Golden Lions.

1946Aziz Sancar, Turkish-American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate^[†]

Aziz Sancar is a Turkish molecular biologist specializing in DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoints, and circadian clock. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul L. Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair. He has made contributions on photolyase and nucleotide excision repair in bacteria that have changed his field.

1946Wong Kan Seng, Singaporean business executive, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore^[†]

Wong Kan Seng is a Singaporean former politician who served as 5th Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 2005 and 2011 and currently is the chairman of UOB Bank and CapitaLand Group since 2017 and 2021 respectively.

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1946A referendum abolishes the monarchy in Bulgaria.^[†]

A referendum on becoming a republic was held in Bulgaria on 8 September 1946. Official results showed 96% in favour of the change against only 4% in favour of retaining the monarchy, with voter turnout reported to be 92%. The monarchy had effectively ended soon after the coup of 9 September 1944, which saw the Fatherland Front seize power. At that time, the regency council for the head of state, Tsar Simeon II, was replaced by a new council made up entirely of members of the Bulgarian Communist Party, the dominant force of the Fatherland Front.

Headlines from September 8, 1946

TO DIVIDE ESTATE AS HOME CENTER; Buyer Will Develop Acreage at Harrison--Bedford Hills Place in New Hands

WORLD BANK STAFF AND INCOME TAXES; Plan to Reimburse United States Nationals for Their Payments Discussed Reimbursement Taxable Pyramiding of Taxes WORLD BANK STAFF AND INCOME TAXES Initial Savings Only

Transport Tie-Up; Reflects Labor Tension On the Waterfront Effects of the Strike The Role of WSB In the Streets Slowdown in Business

OUT HOLLYWOOD WAY; The Voice of the Turtle" MORE NEWS OUT OF HOLLYWOOD Coastscripts

THE LESSON OF WARTIME TEAMWORK; The Victory It Won, Says Donald Nelson, Can Be Repeated in Our Present Economy Teamwork

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