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September 23, 1947

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Arabs Plan Break With West If U.N. Partitions Palestine; ARABS WARN WEST ON PALESTINE SPLIT

By the Associated Press

Arab Office repr reveales secret June, '46, Arab League decisions include econ and cultural break with West if UN partions country; Iraqi Premier S Jafr says League adopted more secret resolutions at recent Sofar conf; gift of $2 million from Arab states to Palestine Arabs reptd; Moslem youth group meets, Haifa; Emir Feisal el Saud says Arabs will fight partition, UN session; charges Zionists with Nazi practices; F el Khoury repeats fight threat; Irgun reptdly sends leaflets warning Arabs not to attack Jews

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Notable Births

Christian Bordeleau

1947Christian Bordeleau, Canadian ice hockey player[†]

Christian Gerrard "Chris" Bordeleau is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. He played in the National Hockey League between 1969 and 1972, and the World Hockey Association between 1972 and 1979.

1947Mary Kay Place, American actress[†]

Mary Kay Place is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Loretta Haggers on the television series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, a role that won her the 1977 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – Comedy Series. Her numerous film appearances include Private Benjamin (1980), The Big Chill (1983), Captain Ron (1992) and Francis Ford Coppola's 1997 drama The Rainmaker. Place also recorded three studio albums for Columbia Records, one in the Haggers persona, which included the Top Ten country music hit "Baby Boy". For her performance in Diane (2018), Place won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress.

Neal Smith (drummer)

1947Neal Smith, American drummer and songwriter[†]

Neal Smith is an American musician, best known as the drummer for the rock group Alice Cooper from 1967 to 1974. He performed on the group's early albums Pretties for You and Easy Action, their breakout album Love It to Death and the subsequent successful albums Killer, School's Out, and Billion Dollar Babies. The last new studio album with the five original Alice Cooper group members participating in new music was Muscle of Love in 1973. The original group's Greatest Hits studio album was released in 1974. In 2018, a live performance album Live from the Astroturf recorded in 2015 was released, featuring four of the original group members performing eight of their hit songs, with long-time Alice Cooper solo band guitarist and friend Ryan Roxie interplaying lead guitar parts with original group rhythm guitarist Michael Bruce, on behalf of original group lead guitarist Glen Buxton, who died in 1997 of pneumonia at age 49.

Historical Events

1947A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes South Khorasan in Iran, killing over 500 people.[†]

The 1947 Dustabad earthquake, also known as the Charmeh earthquake, occurred in South Khorasan province of northeastern Iran on 23 September. The mainshock had a magnitude of Mw 6.9 and maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). It was accompanied by a Mw  6.1 aftershock on 26 September. These earthquakes killed an estimated 500 people.