On this day
Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
agrees to ask UN for funds to tide Trieste over initial period
House Com on Un-Amer Activities members criticize Atty Geo Clark failure to prosecute Communists and Communist activities; 2 Cong members suggest his impeachment
H A Wallace urges US loan for econ relief; analyzes needs
phone unions spurn wage rise as pattern
1947Robert Burgess, English sociologist and academic (died 2022)[†]
Sir Robert George Burgess DL, FAcSS was a British sociologist and academic. He was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester in 1999, succeeding Ken Edwards. He was President of the British Sociological Association 1989–1991 and chair of the board of GSM London.
1947Glenn Cornick, English bass player (died 2014)[†]
Glenn Douglas Barnard Cornick was an English bass guitarist, best known as the original bassist for the British rock band Jethro Tull from 1967 to 1970. Rolling Stone has called his playing with Tull as "stout, nimble underpinning, the vital half of a blues-ribbed, jazz-fluent rhythm section".
1947Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Irish civil rights leader and politician[†]
Josephine Bernadette McAliskey, usually known as Bernadette Devlin or Bernadette McAliskey, is an Irish civil rights leader and former politician. She served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Ulster in Northern Ireland from 1969 to 1974. McAliskey came to national and international prominence at the age of 21 when she became the youngest female ever to become a member of the British Parliament. McAliskey broke the traditional Irish republican policy of abstentionism and took her seat in Westminster.