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NEW DELHI, India, Sept. 7 -- Communal murder spread today to New Delhi, the capital city of India, for the first time. [There have been many disturbances in adjacent Old Delhi, but the capital had hitherto been almost free from disturbance.]
ON BOARD U.S.S. MISSOURI, Sept. 7 -- Amid the great pageantry of Brazil's celebration of her Independence Day. President Truman and his family sailed from Rio de Janeiro, homeward bound this afternoon on this battleship.
ROME, Sept. 7 -- In a dramatic appeal to the Catholic world today Pope Pius XII urged all Catholics to rally with all their strength in the defence of Christian principles and to fight those forces that strike at the very foundation of Catholic life.
PARIS, Sept. 7 -- The final estimate of the deficit in the sixteen western European nations participating in the conference on the Marshall Plan and western Germany, will be fixed at about $20,000,000,000, persons in a position to speak with authority predicted tonight.
United States Senator Robert F. Wagner declared yesterday that, contrary to published reports, he had no intention of resigning the office that he has held since 1927.
1947Valery Afanassiev, Russian pianist and conductor[†]
Valery Pavlovich Afanassiev is a Russian pianist, writer and conductor.
1947Halldór Ásgrímsson, Icelandic accountant and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Iceland (died 2015)[†]
Halldór Ásgrímsson was an Icelandic politician, who served as prime minister of Iceland from 15 September 2004 to 15 June 2006 and was the leader of the Progressive Party from 1994 to 2006.
1947Ann Beattie, American novelist and short story writer[†]
Ann Beattie is an American novelist and short story writer. She has received an award for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story form.
1947Benjamin Orr, American singer-songwriter and bass player (died 2000)[†]
Benjamin Orr was an American musician. He was best known as the bassist, co-lead vocalist, and co-founder of the band The Cars. He sang lead vocals on several of their hits, including "Just What I Needed", "Let's Go", "Moving in Stereo", and "Drive". He also had the solo hit "Stay the Night".
1947Marianne Wiggins, American author[†]
Marianne Wiggins is an American author. According to The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, Wiggins writes with "a bold intelligence and an ear for hidden comedy." She has won a Whiting Award, an National Endowment for the Arts award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2004 for her novel Evidence of Things Unseen.