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Dems reptd planning own tax cut program embodying several proposals to beat Repub bill; House com repts out closed rule for House debate on bill
Dewey gets assurances of substantial Tex delegation support
UN com hears Ben Gurion urge temporary UN supervision of Palestine; Sir A Rahman clash with Ben Gurion described
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3 rings including $9,500 diamond snatched by thief; suspect, J N Fernandez Jr, killed by wounded Patrolman D B Murphy in bus; illus
1947Kim Darby, American actress[†]
Kim Darby is an American actress and teacher. Her breakout role was as Mattie Ross in the 1969 Western film True Grit, earning her a BAFTA Award nomination for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. The same year, she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for her performance in counterculture comedy Generation (1969).
1947Jenny Diski, English author and screenwriter (died 2016)[†]
Jenny Diski FRSL was an English novelist, non-fiction writer and memoirist. She was a regular contributor to the London Review of Books; articles and essays she wrote for the publication are in the collections Don't and Why Didn't You Do What You Were Told? Her memoirs include In Gratitude, The Sixties, Skating to Antarctica, and Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America With Interruptions, for which she won the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
1947Luis Fernando Figari, Peruvian religious leader, founded the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae[†]
Luis Fernando Figari Rodrigo is a Peruvian Catholic layman who is the founder and former superior general of Sodalitium Christianae Vitae. He also founded the Christian Life Movement and several other religious associations.
1947Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.[†]
An unidentified flying object (UFO) is an object or phenomenon seen in the sky but not yet identified or explained. The term was coined when United States Air Force (USAF) investigations into flying saucers found too broad a range of shapes reported to consider them all saucers or discs. UFOs are also known as unidentified aerial phenomena or unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). Upon investigation, most UFOs are identified as known objects or atmospheric phenomena, while a small number remain unexplained.