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June 6, 1947

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Bevin and Eden Get 'Letter Bombs'; Stern Gang Asserts It Sent Them; MAIL BOMBS SENT TO BEVIN AND EDEN

By Mallory Brownespecial To the New York Times

Truman asks US citizens and residents to refrain from promoting violence in Palestine, proclamation; text; Brit see statement as incomplete reply to their protests against US groups aid to terrorists; more Brit officials, including Sec Bevin and A Eden, get lr-bombs; Stern gang claims responsibility; police hunt senders in Italy

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Notable Births

David Blunkett

1947David Blunkett, British Labour politician; Home Secretary 2001–2004[†]

David Blunkett, Baron Blunkett, is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Education and Employment from 1997 to 2001, Home Secretary from 2001 to 2004 and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in 2005. A member of the Labour Party, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough from 1987 to 2015 and was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer in 2015.

Robert Englund

1947Robert Englund, American actor; best known for Nightmare on Elm Street[†]

Robert Barton Englund is an American actor and director. Englund is best known for playing the villain Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Englund has received multiple accolades and honors, including a Saturn Award, a Fangoria Chainsaw Award, and is scheduled to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Ada Kok

1947Ada Kok, Dutch butterfly stroke swimmer; winner of three Olympic medals including gold in 1968[†]

Aagje ("Ada") Kok is a Dutch former swimmer who ranked among the world's best in the butterfly stroke category during the 1960s.

Keith Daniel Williams

1947Keith Daniel Williams, American convicted rapist and triple murderer (died 1996)[†]

Keith Daniel Williams was an American triple murderer who was executed by the state of California for the October 1978 murders of three people in Merced, California. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1979 and was subsequently executed in 1996 at San Quentin State Prison by lethal injection.

Notable Deaths

James Agate

1947James Agate, English author and critic (born 1877)[†]

James Evershed Agate was an English diarist and theatre critic between the two world wars. He took up journalism in his late twenties and was on the staff of The Manchester Guardian in 1907–1914. He later became a drama critic for The Saturday Review (1921–1923), The Sunday Times (1923–1947) and the BBC (1925–1932). The nine volumes of Agate's diaries and letters cover the British theatre of his time and non-theatrical interests such as sports, social gossip and private preoccupations with health and finances. He published three novels, translated a play briefly staged in London, and regularly published collections of theatre essays and reviews.