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Repub members of joint conf com indicate that they will conf among selves before again putting budget cut issue before joint com
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Council defers discussion of treaty because of deadlock over Ger assets issue
Duesseldorf area indus nearly halted by demonstrations against shortages; Ger delegation blames Brit policies; demands aid; offers rehabilitation program
1947Frank Bowe, American academic (died 2007)[†]
Frank G. Bowe was a deaf American disability studies academic who served as the Dr. Mervin Livingston Schloss Distinguished Professor for the Study of Disabilities at Hofstra University. As a disability rights activist, author, and teacher, he accomplished a series of firsts for individuals with disabilities.
1947Robert Gordon, American singer and actor (died 2022)[†]
Robert Gordon was an American rockabilly singer.
1947The Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule begins in Madagascar.[†]
The Malagasy Uprising was a Malagasy nationalist rebellion against French colonial rule in Madagascar, lasting from March 1947 to February 1949. Starting in late 1945, Madagascar's first French National Assembly deputies, Joseph Raseta, Joseph Ravoahangy and Jacques Rabemananjara of the Mouvement démocratique de la rénovation malgache (MDRM) political party, led an effort to achieve independence for Madagascar through legal channels. The failure of this initiative and the harsh response it drew from the Socialist Ramadier administration radicalized elements of the Malagasy population, including leaders of several militant nationalist secret societies.