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1946John Brass, Australian rugby player and coach[†]
John Brass is an Australian former rugby union and rugby league footballer – a dual-code international. He made twelve international representative rugby union appearances with the Wallabies from 1966 to 1968 and six representative rugby league appearances for the Kangaroos in 1970 and 1975, as national captain on one occasion.
1946Catharine MacKinnon, American lawyer, activist, and author[†]
Catharine Alice MacKinnon is an American feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, and the James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. From 2008 to 2012, she was the special gender adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
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Urges US immigration laws change to admit share of displaced persons
Astronomers prepare to observe meteors accompanying comet Giaconini-Zinner return
WAA orders all surplus bldg materials allotted to program within 60 days; OPA raises ceilings on certain materials; Natl Assn of Home Bldrs criticizes Fed agency handling of supplies; suggests changes
Pope declares Yugoslavia acknowledged, '42, that neither Holy See nor RC Ch had any part in forced conversions; scores charges made at trial; woman witness testifies against E Lisak, former Ustashi col and sec to Stepinatz; says her daughter was hanged; Stepinatz queried on relations with Lisak
Airships Arctic test plans
conf plenary session adopts rules of procedure for speedy finish; ss limited to 1/2 hr as decks are cleared for final vote on treaty drafts; 3-day deadline imposed; single sessions planned for each specific treaty
Boston wins 1st game
RAF man shot dead, another seriously hurt by unknown assailant; gunmen open Are on Brit Army staff auto, Jerusalem
Koenemund, D, 2, lost near father's farm, Secaucus, NJ; townspeople and planes aid search
Raeder asks ct to change imprisonment sentence to soldierly death sentence; petition signed by 10 former Ger adms; condemned Nazis spend quiet Sunday; von Papen stays in jail; Allied Control Council secretariat repts no plea received from Pope on Frank behalf
Appeals to NYS voters for large regis