Edwina Currie is a British writer, broadcaster and former politician, serving as Conservative Party Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire from 1983 until 1997. She was a Junior Health Minister for two years, resigning in 1988 during the salmonella-in-eggs controversy.

1946Lacy J. Dalton, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist^[†]

Lacy J. Dalton is an American country music singer and songwriter. She is known for her gritty, powerful vocals, which People Magazine likened to a country equivalent of Bonnie Raitt.

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1946France adopts the constitution of the Fourth Republic.^[†]

The French Fourth Republic was the republican government of France from 27 October 1946 to 4 October 1958, governed by the fourth republican constitution of 13 October 1946. Essentially a reestablishment and continuation of the French Third Republic which governed from 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War to 1940 during World War II, it suffered many of the same problems which led to its end. The French Fourth Republic was a parliamentary republic.

Headlines from October 13, 1946

WALLACE WILL EDIT THE NEW REPUBLIC; Ex-Secretary Will Take Post Effective With Dec. 16 Issue 'to Say What I Think'

Crowds in Rain Jam Shops In Frantic Search for Meat; Arguments, Pushing and Shoving Enliven the Vigils of Soaked Throngs Lined Up for Hours--Newark May Slaughter Cattle THRONGS IN RAIN JAM MEAT SHOPS MEAT: PLENTY ON THE HOOF IN NEBRASKA--VERY LITTLE IN NEW YORK STORES

HOLD TO FREEDOM, BARUCH WARNS U.S.; Placing It Above Peace, He Lists Its 'Tests' in Talk at City College Dinner

HUNGARIAN TREATY VOTED AS U.S. MOVE TO EASE LOAD FAILS; Conference of Paris Refuses to Approve $100,000,000 Cut in Payments to Slav Group SOVIET ASSAILS MOTIVES Thorp Doubts Germans Seized $3,000,000,000 in Properties as Claimed by Russian Bloc

L. I. Rail Strike Is Averted, Fact-Finders Tell Truman; L.I. RAIL STRIKE OFF, FACT-FINDERS HOLD

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