On this day
March 26, 1947
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Headlines from March 26, 1947
119 Miners Feared Dead In Explosion at Illinois Pit
Centralia Coal Co explosion, Centralia, Ill; casualties
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Austin to Expound to U.N. Our Policy of Near East Aid; DISCUSSING STATEMENT TO BE MADE TO UNITED NATIONS
W Austin conf with Truman; to s to UN Security Council on Truman Doctrine
Diners Now Can Drink on Credit; New Law Longchamps Case Sequel
link between case and new NYS law permitting liquor sales on credit to diners noted; chain atty comments
Notable Births
1947Subhash Kak, Indian-American professor and author[†]
Subhash Kak is an Indian-American computer scientist and historical revisionist. He is the Regents Professor of the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, an honorary visiting professor of engineering at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a member of the Indian Prime Minister's Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC).
1947John Rowles, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter[†]
Sir John Edward Rowles is a New Zealand singer. He was most popular in the late 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, and he is best known in New Zealand for his song "If I Only Had Time" and from 1970, "Cheryl Moana Marie", which he wrote about his younger sister